Afghan debacle cedes Eurasia to the dragon and bear - - China and Russia set to cement alliance with US withdrawal and existential common threat of jihad on their frontiers

asiatimes.com ^ | September 6, 2021 | Spengler

[COBOL2Java]

But the way we left reeks of weakness, betrayal, and stupidly or worse... dangerous realignments among our enemies are happening as we type.

Exactly.

All according to plan...

[silverleaf]

“ Who rules the heartland rules the world”
Halford MacKinder

First Britain, then America have spent over 100 years forming their national strategic interests into trying to prevent that being Russia ….with military alliances and military bases surrounding the Bear in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East, and formerly in Afghanistan…,assuming China was a buffer to Russian expansion eastward.

China, not so much a threat to controlling the Heartland, the geographic pivot of the world, since it was assumed Chinese expansionism was aimed into the Pacific and the eastern hemisphere littoral. With India as a Western bulwark.

Now for anyone paying attention, it’s …ruh roh. China is getting close to cinching up the Heartland in a silken web stretching into SWA and even Africa, with its first-ever overseas military base in Djibouti, right at the entry to the Suez, and thousands of workers in the oilfields of Libya and the mines of Congo.

I remember how enthusiastic were the really smart people on the top floors at Foggy Bottom, and all their retired chums comfortably nested in think tanks and lobby groups ….about China’s plans for a “ new silk road” now called “ One Belt” of roads, rail, pipelines, communications….stretching from Beijing to Bremen and connecting all the ports ( many China controlled) reaching into the Indian Ocean.

How wonderful to contemplate a multi- polar world.

[Jumper]

Democrats actually thought that if they caused the American “Defeats” in VN and Afghanistan that Communists in China and the Socialist-Commies in Russia would welcome them and political leadership in the “ISM Club” as co-rulers of the world. Instead the DNC is finding out that they are neither welcomed or trusted in International Circles... and now they are “left” to face the electorate in future elections - maybe they won’t be tried for crimes on the books because of their political positions over the law enforcement, but that too could change with a stupid call by Biden/Harris for Martial Law and find themselves actually overthrown by the military with the support of flyover country.

Everyone can have that wet dream where America is saved given the current circumstances.

[Eleutheria5]

Yeah. Let them go balls to the wall to make Afghanistan safe from the Afghans. Have fun.

[Chgogal]

That’ll what Russia said about Alaska.