Those who have lost this war cannot obtain, let alone impose, anything.
Unless the U.S. can accept a more modest role in a multipolar world, more Afghanistan-type misadventures are inevitable.
Priorities for the Next Federal Reserve Chair: Completing the Revolution in Macroeconomic PolicyAUGUST 16, 2021
By Mike Konczal
The scale and speed of the collapse in Afghanistan after twenty years of nation building is a damning indictment of the national security and foreign policy establishment.
The longest recorded war and the (new) final defeat of the major Western power.
Striking differences in the ways the pandemic has been dealt with and its economic and social consequences.