Biden has announced that the USA will be leaving Afghanistan. I am sure that they will try to portray their séjour in that country as a success. However, 20 years, thousands of casualties, more than one thousand billion dollars spent – what’s to show for it? Unless you own shares in the arms industry, not much.
Democracies, whose leaders have to face the ballot box every four years do not enjoy the luxury of dictatorships. They normally have to go for short-term results and can rarely take a long view. And yet, I wonder whether somewhere in the toolbox of US strategic planners they did not consider the possibility of luring Russia back into the Afghanistan trap – a trap no outsider has really survived.
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