US withdrawal is a joke. Right words will be US defeat in Afghanistan. We don’t know much, it may be US arranged and quietly negotiated withdrawal which turned into a defeat for everybody to watch on prime time TV. It would appear that US ex servicemen under grab of advisors began leaving their posts two months prior until none was left. Taliban in Doha office had negotiated that kind of deal with bad US negotiators, who thought that advisors leaving Kabul will not result in a defeat. But for Taliban and Pakistan, they could not settle for anything less than a US defeat.
Now US and Biden prestige is at the lowest. It cannot go lower, hence to salvage its prestige US is arranging for in person QUAD leaders conference. It is a bad time to have it. Moreover US leadership quality is very much in doubt, none of the leaders will indulge in a serious dialogue but a dialogue for US media to talk something else except talk about Kabul and retreat from there.
Either this QUAD meeting will be inconclusive with no understanding at all or other three nations will extract major concessions from US.
Before I forget, a big punishment for Afghan fiasco to Pakistan is overdue. It should be administered with full knowledge of Pakistan leaders that double talk ultimately leads to punishment.
