As expected, the Biden regime's ballyhooed retreat from Afghanistan is turning out to be a non-withdrawal withdrawal.
The Americans anticipate an imminent deal with Pakistan whereby they can continue to use its airspace to attack Afghanistan and harass neighboring nations like China and Iran.
From the analysis below:
"The US empire will still be retaining military control over a key geostrategic region adjacent to Iran and China, will still be enriching the military-industrial complex by raining explosives upon human beings on Afghan soil, and will still be continuing George W Bush's 'war on terror' scam. It just won't come with the bad cosmetics of maintaining a ground troop presence...
"This is the modern model of US warfare; a de-emphasis on Bush-era Hulk Smash ground invasions in favor of drone warfare, missile strikes, starvation sanctions, proxy wars, staged coups, special ops, and cold war maneuverings. Constant footage of flag-draped coffins coming home during Bush's wars caused a PR nightmare for the empire from which it still hasn't fully recovered, but technological and strategic advancements has made such bad publicity largely a thing of the past.
"The goal of the empire is to be able to topple governments and dominate the globe without incurring a negative perception among the inhabitants of the US and its client states. It has been doing this with a combination of (A) shifting to more 'light touch' interventionism which doesn't garner as much negative attention as full-scale ground invasions and (B) a global perception management campaign of historically unprecedented scale and sophistication."
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/10/24/cool-afghanistan-withdrawal-bro/