In August 2021, as Kabul fell and Washington bureaucrats drowned in paperwork, hundreds of interpreters and commandos who had bled alongside U.S. Special Forces were being hunted door to door with their wives and children. Retired U.S. Army Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann and a small group of special operations veterans sitting in their homes across America refused to watch their brothers die on television. In Bushido, a warrior does not abandon the man who carried his shield in battle. Why could those families not simply walk up to the airport gates with their visa papers? Because armed checkpoints blocked the roads by day, and tens of thousands of desperate people crushed the gates so tightly that families with small children could not get within five hundred yards of the wall. So the retired Green Berets launched Operation Pineapple Express from their kitchen tables using encrypted phones and satellite maps. Working through the night without sleep, American veterans guided terrified families step by step through dark back alleys and sewer canals to avoid checkpoints, vectoring them to the exact concrete wall where active-duty U.S. Marines and soldiers were waiting. To make sure the American troops on the wall knew who to pull out of the dark sewage canal, the veterans sent every family one secret image to flash on their phone screens in the dark: a yellow pineapple on a pink background. Hand over hand, young U.S. Marines reached down into the filthy water in the dead of night, saw the glowing yellow pineapple, and pulled 630 men, women, and toddlers over the wire to freedom just hours before the gates closed forever. Politicians sign withdrawal orders. Warriors keep their word until the last friend is over the wall.

La France a fait tellement de progrès en 100 ans ! Tout le monde est si bien habillé, si riche et a l'air si heureux ! Attends... QUOI ?! C'est l'inverse ??? WTF...