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You really think he would have been allowed to have anything with it? Deep State simply did it and presented the President (and the world) with the fait accompli.

Considering CIA's and general US track record, that is precisely what I expect happened. Basically, the main problem is that the US believe their own BS.

I wrote a bit of a commentary on this. To sum up, United States lost the war in the Afghanistan the moment they decided to set up a modern parliamentary "democracy". A feudal kingdom or just a tribal alliance had a far better chance of success, but of course that is something US would have never...

I finally managed to find enough sources to verify news for my article: https://politicalreactionary.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/resistance-against-taliban-forming-in-panjshir/ But yes, Panjshir is forming / has formed resistance against the Taliban. Prospects aren't all that bright though, as the...

Yeah, they are. I wrote a commentary on it here: https://politicalreactionary.wordpress.com/2021/08/18/taliban-are-seizing-guns-from-civilians/ But short story shorter, it does not bode well for anyone in Afghanistan, other than Taliban themselves. But it is clear they do not want a repeat of...

Agreed. That is a problem with a universalist ideology of such type - kinda like Muhammad's successors trying to get everyone into the universal caliphate to "save their souls". At that point, you are dealing with religious fundamentalists, not rational actors.

Basically, US nation building only worked in situation when it was not really necessary.

In that case you had no business attempting to do anything in Afghanistan. EDIT: I'd say major part of the problem is that United States are an empire that prefers to pretend not being one. So instead of acting in a logically coherent manner of an actual empire, you guys go around exporting...

You could have actually built onto the existing social structures. There is a reason why modern militaries - and modern states - fail in the areas where tribal identities are still strong. You did the same mistake in Afghanistan that Saruman did with his own army-building, trying to force a...

That is kinda my point. US (and the West in general) are essentially buying their own BS at this point, and it is preventing them from implementing solutions that actually work.

They do care for the results, though. And if the US cared less about all the stuff I listed, and more about the results - results for the Afghanistan, not the US - then maybe they could have secured both. A big maybe, admittedly, but fact is that the large reason of why US failed in the...

Part of the problem is that the US and other Western powers are filthy liars... Mujahedin at least are honest about what they want. But the entirety of the West (US, UK, France, Germany...)? No, we don't want to enslave you! No, it is about democracy, human rights, betterment for all, needs of...

Just watching Charlemagne's commentary. He's got some good points:

It isn't. One is 154038, the other is 154030.