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The subtle brilliance of Joe Biden
Swaye
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Create an absolute shitstorm in Afghanistan and they will stop talking about the fucking total uselessness of mask mandates and vaccine passports, the shitshow at the border and rising gas prices. Brilliant strategy Joe. He's playing chess while we are all playing checkers.
p.s. Notice the usual suspects haven't been around all morning to defend the Admin?
p.s. Notice the usual suspects haven't been around all morning to defend the Admin?
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You can't make that up
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/afghanistan-we-never-learn
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about the possibility that there might be a “significant deterioration” of the security picture in Afghanistan once the United States withdrew its forces, said, “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.”
Down to their own stunningly (perfectly?) inaccurate mis-predictions of what would take place once our military forces left the country, Biden administration officials could not have scripted a worse ending to the twenty-year disaster that has been our occupation of Afghanistan.
Every image coming out of Afghanistan this past weekend was an advertisement for the incompetence, arrogance, and double-dealing nature of American foreign policy leaders. Scenes of military dogs being evacuated while our troops fire weapons in the air to disperse humans desperate for a seat out of the country will force every theoretical future ally to think twice about partnering with us:
The pattern is always the same. We go to places we’re not welcome, tell the public a confounding political problem can be solved militarily, and lie about our motives in occupying the country to boot. Then we pick a local civilian political authority to back that inevitably proves to be corrupt and repressive, increasing local antagonism toward the American presence.
In response to those increasing levels of antagonism, we then ramp up our financial, political, and military commitment to the mission, which in turn heightens the level of resistance, leading to greater losses in lives and treasure. As the cycle worsens, the government systematically accelerates the lies to the public about our level of “progress.”
Bravo, Joe 👏 👏 👏