Notes on the ‘Loss’ of Afghanistan
Cleaning up some misperceptions about the US operation in Afghanistan, including the idea that it was a country.
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Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
Quelle surprise! No one is held accoutable for huge, predictable strategic and moral failures like going to Afghanistan, because profit
Read more...Afghanistan: Another Reminder for Withering Britain
Afghanistan as an echo of the end of imperial Britain.
Read more...Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger
A new Iran gas find has the potential to supply 20% of Europe’s needs. But its pricing and delivery will be coordinated with Russia.
Read more...Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
How the Taliban outfoxed the US.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Biden Forfeits His Afghan Victory by Defending His Deep State Advisors
Biden gave a bizarre justification of the horrifically mismanaged US exit from Afghanistan, revealing his capture by intel incompetents.
Read more...The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?
Trying to make sense of Afghanistan.
Read more...Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
Read more...The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
Now that Congress is showing interest in taking back its control of war powers, it could look at stealh warmaking via mercenaries too.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...Bad News About Iran and Nuclear Deal
Oof, Biden blows the chance to keep relations with Iran from moving further in the wrong direction by capitulating to his hardliners.
Read more...The Conflict Within OPEC Is Far From Over
Another byproduct of inflation generally and rising gas prices in particular is more eyes on OPEC.
Read more...America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
America is finally out of one unwinnable war. How does this bode for the US extracting itself from other Middle Eastern quagmires?
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