On Point: The Biden Administration's Afghanistan Bug-Out Continues to Have Disastrous Consequences
by Austin Bay
August 16, 2023
The Biden administration's incompetent and needlessly hasty Afghanistan withdrawal led to disaster in August 2021.
The withdrawal became a humiliating rout, with the fear, death and departing C-17s at Kabul Airport a chaotic finale live and in color on global television.
America suffered a major diplomatic and psychological defeat that continues to have negative impacts on U.S. foreign policy.
It certainly weakens U.S. military deterrence -- the ability to deter war by convincing bad actors they will pay a heavy price. Bad actors like Xi Jinping's national-communist China and Vladimir Putin's national-socialist Russia saw the debacle and the Biden administration's spinelessness. I think Putin decided he had his chance to conquer Ukraine. Draw a straight line from Kabul in August 2021 to Kyiv in February 2022.
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