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FILE PHOTO. The White House.
America's internal political battles have smothered consensus and led to Washington being asleep at the wheel in foreign affairs for many years now. The lack of US strategic clarity only fuels uncertainty and instability globally.
The
Afghanistan Papers, published by the Washington Post in 2019, revealed that
the US has for many years been aware that it cannot win the war in Afghanistan, yet it has been reluctant to accept defeat and withdraw.
US policy has been defined in indecisiveness, as neither victory or defeat has been an option.
The continued waste of money and blood has merely resulted in a corrupt government in Kabul dependent on the influx of US funding, a hardened and militarized opposition, and neighbouring states frustrated with the unpredictability of the enduring US presence.
Comment: The fruits of US involvement in all of these affairs seems to be chaos creation, perhaps because that's partly the objective? And also just a reflection of the
ponerized state of the US administration?
Is it any wonder Russia and China have openly stated that the
US has 'lost its mind, morals and credibility'?
Comment: AOC is verging on some magical thinking here. It would be interesting to hear how exactly she thinks that racial justice is going to change the climate.
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