The US has failed its allies once again. The ways it chooses its allies are problematic, the way it makes decisions are problematic. I do not categorically think the US was wrong to retreat from Afghanistan. But only the fools in the decision-making process of this hasty retreat could not see what would happen.
I believe the international community sees this as a failure for Biden. I am not sure most of the American public will even care about it. If the Biden government can divert more funding for the increasingly failing country infrastructure and alleviate social inequalities, it can still win domestically. I guess this is what it is up to. Let’s see…
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