The senator assessed the flight from Afghanistan: “The United States is embracing defeatist sentiments”
Washington's reaction to defeat in Afghanistan may be a desire to take military revenge somewhere in order to restore its authority.
The chairman of the temporary commission of the Federation Council on information policy and interaction with the media, Alexei Pushkov, writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports in his telegram channel.
According to him, “the defeat of the United States in Afghanistan naturally causes a crisis of self-perception in American political society.
“As opponents we are toothless. As allies, they are unreliable,” the politician quotes from the influential American publication The Hil.
“The flight of the heavily armed global power from the Taliban militants, armed mainly with Kalashnikovs and the Koran, really dealt a powerful blow to the international reputation of the United States and its ability to provide the “global leadership” that the Biden administration never tires of talking about,” – in turn, the senator dies.
He is convinced that against this background a painful process of realizing the consequences of this defeat will now begin in America.
“The sentiments of defeatism (“defeatism”) characteristic of the period after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 will partially return. Washington's reaction to defeat in Afghanistan may be a desire to take military revenge somewhere in order to restore US authority. But, most likely, the “revenge scenario” will be limited to missile and bomb attacks on an unrequited target and will not bring big points to Washington. The United States is not in a position to go to a new big war,” Pushkov sums up.
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