Bret Devereaux

Ah, I see now we are withdrawing in the other direction. Who could have possibly seen this coming?https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425892996378238977 …

There is a realist argument to be made that we should get out and let the Taliban murder everyone who helped us. I'm not thrilled by it, but it's internally consistent and fact-based. But if that's what you're doing, you need to be honest about it, w/ the voters and w/ yourself.

Now we have a situation where we can either expend a lot more blood and treasure to get back to the comparatively low-cost stalemate we had 2 years ago, or midwife a humanitarian catastrophe on our way out the door.

Especially as the americans will suffer no consequences at all. We Europeans, in particolar innocent nations like Greece and Bulgaria, will be hit by the afghan wave when the Turks will grew tired of them. And seeing the pogrom of last day, it will be soon.

In that case, one wonders why European countries don't perhaps step up and provide a larger and more robust security presence themselves? The NATO ISAF skipped out in 2014 and left the rest mostly (not entirely) to the USA.

Wow, it requires a very long response, but : 1) no European public care about Afghanistan, the public opinion is still anti-war as 20 years ago 2) the European military chief, France, still hold correctly the belief that the war is lost. If France doesn't move nobody do 1/2

To be clear, I don't actually wonder. I express frustration at the degree to which the EU states continue to substantially free-ride on American led global security investments and arrangements.

The answer here is Germany.