This could NEVER happen under a Trump presidency:
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Afghanistan withdrawal to give the country back to the Afghani people with enough military fire power to protect themselves while getting their country up and running.
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Economic/Electronics standstill with chip shortages while Taiwan shuts down chip production as they systematically rid their electronics of Chinese parts/code.
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Supply chain crisis and cargo ships stalled at sea and banned from docking because of reasons in order to prevent Chinese crap flooding our market in order to initiate collapse of CCP economy, which is happening now.
All of these "catastrophes" that Americans are screaming about needed to happen during Biden's fake presidency for optics. And it helps to get the norms to the precipice.
If I'm missing other pieces of the puzzle, please add your ideas.
(All these ideas came from the anonymous collective, so I can't take credit.)
Well I have to take exception to your #1. We didn't exactly give weapons to the PEOPLE of Afghanistan, they were abandoned to the Taliban, who most certainly don't represent the majority of the people in that country. It's a clusterfuck and no amount of rationalization can change that or make it seem better.
Except, what if the people of Afghanistan are actually ok with the Taliban governing? Remember, the Taliban wanted to and tried to burn the poppy fields to stop being exploited by other countries/CIA for the drug trade. What if we've just been told that that the people hate the Taliban. "One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist."
As a Christian woman, I find the Taliban to be evil. Raping little boys and marrying little girls to rape them. Terrorizing and beating their forced wives. Evil. Evil.
There is a huge difference between the Taliban on TV and the Taliban on the ground.
The Taliban on the ground is a group of freedom fighters who have used brutal tactics in response to fighting global superpowers, all while following Allah (which carries its own bag luggage).
The Taliban on TV was led by Al Qaeda. They took things to the level of committing war crimes against the populace in the territory they were occupying, were trained by the CIA to do so to activate the Geneva Convention Law of War to justify US and UN intervention, and were led by US trained operatives (you can name a few like Usama Bin Laden).
There is a difference. It's still a bad situation, but it is a better bad situation. Most importantly, it is a much better bad situation than the one that country will be in if they were unable to defend themselves from the CCP going after their rare earth metals. Remember what they did to the Ughar Muslims. The CCP is a much worse monster to live under than the Taliban.