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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Afghanistan refuses to breakup with US

KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite America’s best efforts to leave Afghanistan, the central Asian country refuses to accept the breakup. Afghanistan responded to the latest attempt by texting, “Oh no you didn’t.”

America’s social media relationship status with Afghanistan has long been listed as “It's complicated.’ The open relationship involves a lot of financial support for Afghanistan’s lifestyle, corruption, and a rotation series of nations that continually play around with Afghanistan’s borders and zones These paramours are mostly European, but occasionally other exotic nations—depending on Afghanistan's needs.

The relationship has been a roller coaster of promises, failures, small successes, and disappointments. America has long tried to leave but seems unable to quit its longest war.

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