We finally left Afghanistan the fuck alone, and have seemed to cement that we're not going back in - despite everyone in government and the media talking about it like it's the biggest tragedy every
i mean, fuck Biden but that's more than almost any other president in my (young) life has done
withdrawing was a good thing, and the other part of that is that he/the military/etc bungled the actual execution of the withdrawal so spectacularly incompetently that it did real additional damage to american imperial credibility
What that actually looks like. The fall of America as the global hegemon means more war and competition for power in that vacuum. Unless global communism pops up over night and fills the void itself. Doubtful tho, I think
Now that you mentioned it it isn’t working for me either. I don’t know where else I’d find the image to reupload it but the gist is it’s a chart of the national hegemonic cycle of capitalism going from the Dutch to the British to the Americans with a list of the ensuing wars in the inter hegemonic periods. Point being the US is declining in power actively and that means we’ll soon see a power vacuum that has historically resulted in global wars
Unfortunately, the opposite is happening. The 5 Eyes bond is stronger than ever, and Germany appears to be trying to push the EU closer to the US as well even if France is trying to pull away. Plus Japan and India trying to posture against China and beg the US to help to do it.
There’s this scenario in my mind in which Corbyn won in 2019, then ends up merked for doing huge infrastructure investment funded by Belt and Road (along the lines of the plot of A Very British Coup, where Harry Perkins works around the IMF’s sanctions for nuclear disarmament by loans from the International State Bank of Moscow).
I assume at some point western countries are going to have to realign out of necessity, and :cia: is gonna :party-sicko:
We finally left Afghanistan the fuck alone, and have seemed to cement that we’re not going back in
The CIA still has strong ties to paramilitary groups there and will likely continue to use them. So, the US hasn’t actually left completely. This is a great video on the topic.
We finally left Afghanistan the fuck alone, and have seemed to cement that we're not going back in - despite everyone in government and the media talking about it like it's the biggest tragedy every
i mean, fuck Biden but that's more than almost any other president in my (young) life has done
withdrawing was a good thing, and the other part of that is that he/the military/etc bungled the actual execution of the withdrawal so spectacularly incompetently that it did real additional damage to american imperial credibility
so thats another plus
Hopefully more countries will stop relying on the US as much as they do.
What that actually looks like. The fall of America as the global hegemon means more war and competition for power in that vacuum. Unless global communism pops up over night and fills the void itself. Doubtful tho, I think
That image is bugged for me rn, can you upload it somewhere else?
Now that you mentioned it it isn’t working for me either. I don’t know where else I’d find the image to reupload it but the gist is it’s a chart of the national hegemonic cycle of capitalism going from the Dutch to the British to the Americans with a list of the ensuing wars in the inter hegemonic periods. Point being the US is declining in power actively and that means we’ll soon see a power vacuum that has historically resulted in global wars
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Ohhh yikes, didn't think of that.
Unfortunately, the opposite is happening. The 5 Eyes bond is stronger than ever, and Germany appears to be trying to push the EU closer to the US as well even if France is trying to pull away. Plus Japan and India trying to posture against China and beg the US to help to do it.
There’s this scenario in my mind in which Corbyn won in 2019, then ends up merked for doing huge infrastructure investment funded by Belt and Road (along the lines of the plot of A Very British Coup, where Harry Perkins works around the IMF’s sanctions for nuclear disarmament by loans from the International State Bank of Moscow).
I assume at some point western countries are going to have to realign out of necessity, and :cia: is gonna :party-sicko:
The absolute funniest thing about pulling out of Afghanistan was the Taliban working security at Kabul’s airport.
That and our defense budget still going up and us just reverting to overt cold war foreign policy
Oh my god this is the first I’ve heard of that that’s fucking hilarious
We fight a war with them for 20 years and they’re providing security for us as we’re leaving. Can’t write better irony than that.
Im imagining them waving people through the metal detectors, and pushing those little bins through the x ray machines.
American troops taking their boots off as they’re evacuating lol.
There's still gonna be a ton of mercenaries farting around Afghanistan doing war crimes though.
Paging Mr Devos!
The CIA still has strong ties to paramilitary groups there and will likely continue to use them. So, the US hasn’t actually left completely. This is a great video on the topic.
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Didn't we immediately sanction them after withdrawing?
and/or stole all their money.