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The Washington crime syndicate stole $2.313 trillion from the citizens of Slavelandia to fight the Afghan War that George W. Bush launched in October 2001. And President Joe Biden—who voted to give Bush the power to launch it—ended it in a disaster a few weeks ago.
With the American military gone, the Biden pullout has now opened the door for Chinese and Pakistani influence in the country.
Brown University’s Watson Institute’s Costs of War Project estimated that the figure does not represent the money that the U.S. will spend on “lifetime care for American veterans of this war, nor does it include future interest payments on money borrowed to fund the war.”
The report also pointed out that an estimated 241,000 people died “as a direct result of this war.”
The Biden administration laid blame on the Afghan security forces for not putting up a fight to defend their country. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there were no reports that he heard of “that predicted a security force of 300,000 would evaporate in 11 days.”
Biden said that he stood behind his decision to withdraw the troops and said that he learned the “hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”
Biden has made countering China a centerpiece of his administration. See “TOP TREND 2021: THE RISE OF CHINA” (23 Feb 2021) and “BIDEN VS. CHINA’S BELT & ROAD INITIATIVE: U.S. LOSES” (30 Mar 2021).
He made it clear Beijing would not surpass Washington, D.C., in power during his term in the White House, and he is willing to invest heavily to follow through on the promise.
“China has an overall goal… to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That’s not going to happen on my watch because the United States is going to continue to grow,” Biden said, according to Reuters.
The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of rare minerals coveted by major powers, and China stands to capitalize on the Afghanistan imbroglio. A Taliban spokesman told Nikkei Asia that the group is excited to join the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC and is in talks with China to join its Belt and Road Initiative.
The report identified the CPEC as “the flagship $50 billion Pakistan component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.”
(The report, citing sources, pointed out that China has been in touch with the Taliban since 2018 about potential projects in the country.)
TREND FORECAST: The United States and Europe will lose in the economic challenge against China. While President Biden stated that Beijing would not surpass Washington in power during his term in the White House, that has zero to do with U.S. policy or the Biden administration.
On the economic front, as we have forecast the hard facts and analyses project China to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy by the end of this decade.
As we have long noted, the 20th century was the American century, and the 21st century will be China’s. The business of America has been war, and the business of China is business. The Nikkei Asia report said Beijing has been in touch with Taliban leaders since 2018 about potential projects in the country.
And on the war front, as we have detailed, the U.S. has not won a war since WWII and having just suffered a disastrous Afghan defeat, it would be no match against China’s mighty military.