Tell you what, the reactions from this whole mess have been hilarious, to say the least
German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was recently referring to Biden as “dear Joe” has taken to blaming his administration for the mess. French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders are worried about a refugee crisis from Afghanistan.
Biden, Trump, any American that was remotely associated with Afghanistan is being blamed by the other Western powers.
Boris Johnson said the British and other NATO members had no choice but to cut and run from Afghanistan because the Americans had preemptively done so. Other European politicians are crying that it is the worst failure in the history of the NATO military alliance formed in 1949.
Certainly, the main culprit for the situation in Afghanistan is America. But it is delusional for the Brits and other NATO members to try to shift the blame entirely. They all went into that country using the alliance’s so-called Article Five collective defense clause. The war and 20-year occupation were illegal from the outset having no mandate from the UN Security Council nor any plausible self-defense claim.
They all went there in a show of military strength to project imperial force to the rest of the world.
All of the NATO powers are guilty of war crimes from the war in Afghanistan, including the mass killing of civilians and running detention-torture centers. Trillions of dollars funded by taxpayers were squandered, given as subsidies to military companies, while hundreds of thousands of lives were destroyed. Millions of Afghans have been made homeless.
The British are first-among-equals in their complicity with American crimes. It was former prime minister Good Ol' Tony Blair himself who acted as George W Bush’s international puppet for enabling the war.
In the end, the Americans wanted out of their swamp which they had created 40 years ago when they sponsored and funded the rise of the Mujahedeen against a Soviet-aligned government in Kabul. The Mujahedeen were the precursor to the Taliban and the Al Qaeda which has since metastasized in several countries giving the US and NATO an excuse for invading.
It is remarkably amusing how the Americans used NATO collective defense to give their imperial crimes in Afghanistan a facade of “international coalition”. Yet in the end, when it came to packing up and getting out, the United States made its decision unilaterally without consulting its so-called allies
And that’s what’s burning them.
The British and the other European governments are now left in the lurch to deal with the public anger and shame over the Afghanistan mess.
If there is possibly one positive thing to come out of the catastrophe and criminality it is the public realization that the United States and its gang of NATO accomplices are a rogue organization that is a threat to world peace and not, as they preposterously claim, to be about upholding defense and security. This has already been proved from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan to the Kurds to Georgia to Ukraine to Syria to the Gulf in general.
Afghanistan started as an imperialist criminal enterprise. Now that the sham is exposed, all the culprits are scurrying for cover. And in their scurrying for alibis, it is only obvious that they have thrown under the bus and driven their knives out for the king rat – US of A.
