Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review Aug 15, 2021
A US Chinook flies out of Kabul as the Taliban begin to enter the city. Click to enlarge
U.S. President Joe Biden said this week that he has “no regrets” about pulling American forces out of Afghanistan as the Taliban militants look set to over-run the entire Central Asian country. The lesson here is: anyone acting as a running dog for Washington does so at the peril of ultimate U.S. betrayal.
The U.S.-backed puppet regime in Kabul has done Washington’s bidding for nearly two decades. After 20 years of futile war at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Afghan lives and trillions of dollars, Uncle Sam has decided to pack up, get out and leave the Afghans to their miserable fate. As the Taliban take over one provincial capital after another, the U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that the Kabul regime could fall within a month. And callously, Biden this week told the Afghans they have to do their own fighting.
Whatever happened to lofty American vows of “nation-building”? Or “fighting terrorism”, “defending democracy”, “protecting women’s rights”?
It’s a sordid story with much historical precedent illustrating how at the drop of a hat Uncle Sam is liable to hang erstwhile “allies” out to dry. As American elder statesman Henry Kissinger once noted, the U.S. doesn’t have permanent allies, it only has interests.
Some 46 years ago, the Fall of Saigon saw the United States scurry away from a corrupt puppet regime it had propped up in South Vietnam as the North Vietnamese communists finally routed the redundant American pawns.
A more recent example of callous betrayal by Washington was the throwing of Kurdish militants to the mercy of Turkey when the latter invaded northern Syria during the Trump presidency. Anyone who accepts American patronage must know that the small print in the contract always reads: to be dumped at any time of Uncle Sam’s choosing and convenience.
Afghanistan is the most glaring proof perhaps since the Fall of Saigon in 1975 of that American treachery.
It’s a cautionary tale for others who incredibly still seem trusting in hitching their wagon to a U.S. alliance.
Ukraine, run by a venal regime in Kiev, appears slavishly willing to place all its fate under Washington’s whim. Centuries of common history with Russia are being sacrificed by the regime in Kiev all for the gain of Washington’s military benevolence. A seven-year civil war bankrolled by $2 billion in American military aid has destroyed the peace and prosperity of Ukraine as well as damage neighborly relations with Russia. We can be sure that when the imperial planners in Washington realize that their use of Ukraine as a pawn against Russia has become futile, then the people of Ukraine will be dropped to sort out the chronic mess.
Likewise the American lackeys in the Baltic states. They act as running dogs for Washington to spoil relations between Russia and the European Union. For years, the Baltic countries have objected to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia, appealing instead for more expensive and environmentally dirty U.S. gas exports. Overnight, Washington has decided such a policy is untenable and not worth antagonizing Germany and the rest of the EU. And just like that, the Baltic lackeys are left out in the cold looking like fools.
They never seem to learn though. This week Lithuania did Uncle Sam’s bidding to provoke China by announcing it would recognize Taiwan. That move infuriated Beijing because it undercuts the international One China Policy of accepting Taiwan as under Beijing’s sovereignty. China recalled its envoy from Vilnius and it has threatened punitive economic measures. As the EU’s top trading partner, it is reckless and self-defeating to incur China’s wrath. Lithuania and the rest of the EU could potentially be hit with economic losses – all for the sake of following Washington’s geopolitical agenda of hostility towards China.
Currently, the biggest caution of U.S. treachery must surely go to the renegade Chinese island territory of Taiwan. Beijing has warned that Washington’s provocative arms sales are fomenting separatist factions on the island. China has declared the right to invade Taiwan militarily and take back control by force. Such a move could ignite a war between the United States and China since Washington has repeatedly vowed to “defend” Taiwan.
But as the Afghan debacle reminds us, the chances are that Washington will leave the Taiwanese to their fate in a military confrontation with mainland China. There would be Chinese blood spilled on both sides before Beijing asserts its authority.
Afghanistan demonstrates with brutal clarity that there is not an iota of principle in Washington’s foreign policy and its military interventions. The lives of ordinary U.S. citizens are as expendable as those of foreign people as long as Washington’s interests of serving its corporate profits are deemed to be met. When those interests stop then the lives lost are flushed down the toilet like a nasty turd.
A little sympathy for the devil, please!…
Let’s face it, the ‘war’ in Afghanistan has been a unqualified success. It’s lasted longer than the war in Vietnam. Far longer. It has plunged the Dis-Uniting States into ever more GARGANTUAN levels of debt. There’s that lovely word again. DEBT! It has dismembered and dissembled yet another generation of callow American youths. And it has brought chaos and tragedy to everyone in its wake. As foretold by Georgette Botch the Lesser, in the wake of the Mossad-inspired ‘tragic’ events of IXXI.
Hey! It’s almost the 20th anniversary!
And of course it has brought the world one step closer to Santa-Klaus ‘Anal’ Schwab’s vision of a New Werld Ordure. A Tikkun Olam. A … GREAT RESET!
Zen ze drim shell phinally cum troo!
What’s there not to like?
The thing that worries me most is … what’s gonna happen to the beautiful poppy fields? Them poppy fields what the US troops has been a-guardin’ so assiduously on behalf of the Rotshites for the last 20 years…
https://publicintelligence.net/more-photos-of-usnato-troops-patrolling-opium-poppy-fields-in-afghanistan/
What’s gonna happen to tha poppy fields fer chrissakes?!
I guess What-a-Yahoo might be able to come to some arrangement with the new owners. On behalf of his paymasters, the self-same Rotshites of course.
Cos, y’see, the heroin trade is systemic. And is one of the few things propping up the house of cards which is the international jewish central banksterin’ system.
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
American politicians like to say “We won’t step back!”, a bit rich for any regime made up of many draft dodgers. In ‘The Art of War’ Sun-Tzu says a withdrawal in is not only a legitimate action but sometimes it’s the only option, and if America had withdrawn a bit more they might not have surrendered so much.
“There is no shame in withdrawing your army to await favourable battles. The shame lies in sending your army to certain defeat.
If you meet an army of equal size, fight.
If you meet an army of lesser size, crush.
If you meet an army of greater size, flee.”
America’s draft-dodging politicians who take control from the generals can lose war every time. They’re unlikely to beat an enemy’s military strategy to win the war by using a political strategy designed to win the next election. That makes less sense than using dice to choose horse numbers. If they plan to start a war illegally or otherwise, leave the conduct of the war to the generals and give them what they ask for. If they ask for half a million troops and are told they can have half that because costs and casualties are politically sensitive, then the war was lost before the first soldier stepped ashore.
this withdraval was overdue since obamas +
trumps failure. it was idioty to be involved
since the withdraval of soviet troops.
Really? Kissinger, a statesman? FC, this comment alone indicates you are either a shill or very naive. My vote is shill. James’ comment above most accurately points to the true hidden hand in the global game of NWO chess. Pulling out of Afghanistan in such a humiliating and ridiculous way only points to the fact that America’s coveted status as the number one w**** in the house is coming to an end. China is slated to become the next world superpower and it will not be good for the people of the United States. Guess the slave chattel in the old U.S. of A. better get used to losing, because that’s what’s going to happen when WWIII starts. Finian, you should be ashamed of yourself for even suggesting that being in Afghanistan in the first place was even in that country’s best interest, let alone staying. This whole thing smacks of an orchestrated global chess psyop courtesy of the ROTHshite overlords.
Britain is controlled by America. America is controlled by Israel.
The Jew always betrays.
No-one in their right mind would trust any of these countries.
The war in Afghanistan started with the 911 attack on America by Israel and the Bush II criminals. Remember the claim that Osama bin Laden did 911, and that OBL was in Afghanistan. America has NO chance for survival unless Israel and the Bush criminals are punished. Of course, the CIA drug pipeline and the profits of the US military industries kept the scam going for almost 20 years. ‘Muricans are largely STUPID……just look at the tens of millions who took the spike protein death jab!
https://strangerinajewishworld.blogspot.com/2021/08/afghanistan-for-red-pilled.html
Latest Hit Parade song for Joe Dementia..
Come, Mister Taliban, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Come, Mister Taliban, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan’ go home