RT: Secretary of State Blinken said aiding Kiev would have been “more complicated” without exit from Kabul.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted on Thursday that the much-criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he called “America’s longest war,” helped Washington redirect resources to Ukraine just months later.
Appearing at the State Department for a year-end press conference, Blinken painted a rosy picture of Washington’s diplomatic accomplishments. The exit from Afghanistan, which happened in August 2021, came up because one reporter took issue with Blinken’s claim of strong relationships with US “allies and partners,” some of whom she said were critical of how that US handled that operation.
Consultations were “sustained, they were intense, and we strongly took note of everything that we heard from allies and partners in advance of the decisions that President [Joe] Biden made and that we made,” Bliken insisted, arguing that claims otherwise are “not born out by the facts.”
Though the reporter had asked about lessons of that withdrawal in “dealing with Russia and China,” Blinken proceeded to argue that “if we were still in Afghanistan, it would have, I think, made much more complicated the support that we’ve been able to give and that others have been able to give Ukraine” against Russia.
The last US soldier departed from the Kabul airport on August 31, 2021. The US-backed Afghan government had collapsed without much of a fight two weeks earlier, leaving the Taliban in control of the country – as they had been in 2001. MORE
The money laundering in Kabul got stale and needed to be freshened up with a new war.
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Ukraine is nothing more than a personal slush fund for the embezzling swindler Joe Biden who’s only thought is to enrich himself and trashy family.
This government is an embarrassment. If you wanted to destroy our way of life, just exactly what would we be doing different?
When I read stories out of Red China calling us world disrupters, yes I take it with a grain of salt but Lordy why do people like Obama have such hard ons to see us belittled?
The money laundering operation in Afgahistan was getting stale, so they shifted it to Ukrained. It’s unbelievable. But it’s happening.
Deliberate and intentional.