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America didn't lose the war in Afghanistan.
The objective was for the rich to make a shit ton of money through backdoor deals and exploitation of the situation.
That objective was most assuredly accomplished.
They never gave a single shit about the people there or the soldiers. This was all to enrich themselves.
And the only reason they moved on is because they have "vaccine" mandates now.
10's of billions per year, WITHOUT kid approval.
I would not be surprised if it is an alternative reason. I mean the situation is going to get worse over there. So what are the odds that a new war will start? Money will flow. On top of that the immigrants will flood Europe so diversity wins again while Europe becomes enriched with values from people that stone women to death for not cooking well.
I find it very hard to believe that the windthrow was not 100% planned to be a shit storm to arm the Taliban in order to perpetuate chaos and war in the region.
There is a high probability that this botched withdrawal was intentional. The Middle East is the perfect place for the military-industrial complex to thrive. No other country in the world is willing to wage war over the Middle East (so no World War can break out), and nobody truly cares about the lives of civilians in the Middle East. The Middle East is such a clusterfuck filled with such a large amount of low IQ people, that it is impossible to actually create stability in the region, whether it be through diplomacy or conquest. The establishment has shown that it does not care about the lives of able-bodied American men, and will gladly weaken the demography of its own country in order to achieve eternal growth and wealth. The first world is growing older, and the old think that American citizens are fully replaceable.
It genuinely didn't have to go this way. They chose to let it go this way.
The withdrawal could absolutely have been civillians first, military last, yes. But short of keeping US troops there for literal generations to come, the Taliban were always going to retake the country. Honestly, there have almost certainly been less lives lost this way than would have been in a more protracted war between the puppet government and the Taliban.
Afghanistan is not a nation in the western sense of the word. It is a region full of warlords - basically mafia dons - who see the invasion of foreign empires as nothing more than an attempt to rob them of their independence and their way of life. They have been driving empires out of their territory for literal millennia. The government these mafia dons want for the region is what they negotiate amongst themselves. An oligarchy of whoever rises to the top of these familial and ethnic networks.
That's the way they want to live.
Not 'democracy', not 'global community'. Just the mutual understanding of a bunch of drug lords in the mountains.
It would be a stalemate with the jihadis if only a few thousand Americans (and allies, NATO mission continued) stayed in Bagram and few other airbases to keep them in check. Just like thousands of Americans do it in other countries (sometimes "secretly", like in Yemen or Somalia, sometimes openly, like in Iraq, Syria, Phillippines, several other African countries). There was also no public pressure to do it.
Did the warlords run the drug trade?
Some of them. The reality is that religious fundamentalists don't like opium, but when the choice is between selling drugs and being in poverty, religion magically takes a back seat.
Yeah, I've been there.
My issue is that this specific series of events did not have to happen. The US did not have to utterly surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban, let alone get a Marine squad killed, and donate $85 Billion dollars in military equipment.
*laughs in Greco-Bactrian*
either they did it out of incompetence and should resign, or they did it out of malice and should be hanged on television.