How The War in Ukraine Threatens US Global Hegemony and Rent Extraction

After twenty years of an utterly failed occupation of Afghanistan, which cost the US government about US$2.3 trillion (part of the US$8 trillion cost of the post-9/11 US imperial wars), the US retreated in an utterly demeaning fashion. The Afghan army that they had spent so much money on training and equipping rapidly dissolved in the face of the Taliba…