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 Taliban. The blow to US, and Western, prestige was quickly memory holed by the Western media but not by the leaders of the Other 7 billion. Here is a reminder of the widespread corruption, incompetence, stupidity, arrogance and chaos that was involved over the two decades:
Living on the west coast of Canada watching the last of the forests gone for industrial extraction leaving the local populace to deal with its aftermath.
Rural towns are impoverished with massive tax subsidies to the oil/ gas industries amounting to billions of dollars we never voted upon
Th politicians are well meaning but haven’t the wit to realize this hegemonic game being played out against our duly elected to represent us.
Watch the assassination from here of the political assassination of Jeremy Corbyn
And any democratic principles the UK had. It looked like a military deep state coup of the UK’s parliament to myself.
Their role in the Julian Assange abduction for the Americans reinforces this view.
So I’m with the other 7 billion people watching this show go down into oblivion instigated by the Proxy Ukraine War.
As one who lives in the west I never voted for the Wests elite agenda or given any opportunity to discuss it. It backfires within the populace now I’d say this colonial extraction of resources leaving those who live here with nothing in the end but lies of the past.
the seemingly unstoppable Trump machine..to focus on what he sees as the main enemy: China.
Not quite. Trump is, in word and deed, a big China fan. And he's also a realist: even the combined West cannot compete with China, especially when it comes to governance, as our once-and-future President observed, “People say I don’t like China? No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. And we can’t sustain ourselves like that. It’s like playing the New England Patriots and Tom Brady against your high school football team.”
Living on the west coast of Canada watching the last of the forests gone for industrial extraction leaving the local populace to deal with its aftermath.
Rural towns are impoverished with massive tax subsidies to the oil/ gas industries amounting to billions of dollars we never voted upon
Th politicians are well meaning but haven’t the wit to realize this hegemonic game being played out against our duly elected to represent us.
Watch the assassination from here of the political assassination of Jeremy Corbyn
And any democratic principles the UK had. It looked like a military deep state coup of the UK’s parliament to myself.
Their role in the Julian Assange abduction for the Americans reinforces this view.
So I’m with the other 7 billion people watching this show go down into oblivion instigated by the Proxy Ukraine War.
Nice summary of what reality has presented to us.
As one who lives in the west I never voted for the Wests elite agenda or given any opportunity to discuss it. It backfires within the populace now I’d say this colonial extraction of resources leaving those who live here with nothing in the end but lies of the past.
the seemingly unstoppable Trump machine..to focus on what he sees as the main enemy: China.
Not quite. Trump is, in word and deed, a big China fan. And he's also a realist: even the combined West cannot compete with China, especially when it comes to governance, as our once-and-future President observed, “People say I don’t like China? No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. And we can’t sustain ourselves like that. It’s like playing the New England Patriots and Tom Brady against your high school football team.”
Brilliant. Thank you for this.