I briefly felt good when he pulled out of Afghanistan. But it looks like he only did it in order to implement an even crueler policy on them. And he isn't pulling out of the countries where sanctions would be less cruel than the status quo (Yemen), while he is also very belligerent against Iran.
I seriously believe at this point they only pulled out of Afghanistan because Biden had heard about before because his son was a veteran and because there were already plans in place to do so (if as messily as possible). Idk at this point, it's incredibly difficult to reverse engineer these decisions.
He pulled from afghanistan because the situation was unsustainable. When obama took power there were 2k taliban then it was 16k then 60. 4 years later it was 200k. And so on. Trump just ignored the problem. When nothing could be done he decided to pull out in may. Then biden tried his best to stay, pull out later but everything collapsed and the got removed? in august. That is after the trump deadline. They got removed they did not leave. That is the important thing.
Peple dislike ocupation by a foreing power. Obamas surge meant the ocupation was more noticeable. And for all his suposed cynicism obama was a true belever. So he was more active in nation building than bush. People also dont like it when someone else tells them to do stupid shit.
If some of that reconstruction money wold have been used to build concrete things lile roads and railways things may have bern diferent. The more developed regions began their insurgency later. But a majority of that money was used for ideoological shit. Or to make admonistrative reforms that made everyones life harder but ultimatle did not increase tax base. Or to pay 100k to mayor butt for a power point presentation.
My point was that biden did not chose to leave he had to. He was removed by a very popular insurgency.
We may not like it because they maigth be reactionar in some ways. But they defeated the americans. The forced them out. I think we should recogise that.
I briefly felt good when he pulled out of Afghanistan. But it looks like he only did it in order to implement an even crueler policy on them. And he isn't pulling out of the countries where sanctions would be less cruel than the status quo (Yemen), while he is also very belligerent against Iran.
I seriously believe at this point they only pulled out of Afghanistan because Biden had heard about before because his son was a veteran and because there were already plans in place to do so (if as messily as possible). Idk at this point, it's incredibly difficult to reverse engineer these decisions.
He pulled from afghanistan because the situation was unsustainable. When obama took power there were 2k taliban then it was 16k then 60. 4 years later it was 200k. And so on. Trump just ignored the problem. When nothing could be done he decided to pull out in may. Then biden tried his best to stay, pull out later but everything collapsed and the got removed? in august. That is after the trump deadline. They got removed they did not leave. That is the important thing.
Hmm, wonder why it's unsustainable and Taliban keep increasing :soviet-hmm:
Peple dislike ocupation by a foreing power. Obamas surge meant the ocupation was more noticeable. And for all his suposed cynicism obama was a true belever. So he was more active in nation building than bush. People also dont like it when someone else tells them to do stupid shit.
If some of that reconstruction money wold have been used to build concrete things lile roads and railways things may have bern diferent. The more developed regions began their insurgency later. But a majority of that money was used for ideoological shit. Or to make admonistrative reforms that made everyones life harder but ultimatle did not increase tax base. Or to pay 100k to mayor butt for a power point presentation.
My point was that biden did not chose to leave he had to. He was removed by a very popular insurgency.
We may not like it because they maigth be reactionar in some ways. But they defeated the americans. The forced them out. I think we should recogise that.