While Pentagon officials have long dismissed reports of an Afghan drawdown as “rumors,” and the White House has said no specific orders were made yet, the Washington Post is quoting officials as saying that the Pentagon is in the process of drawing up plans for a partial withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
These officials also suggested President Trump was interested in a quick pullout of 7,000 troops, but that the Pentagon’s plans fall short of that both in size and time. It is expected the plan is a few thousand troops over a much longer period of time.
That’s just the Pentagon’s plan, of course. Officials concede that President Trump hasn’t specifically ordered anything, and could just as easily still demand something bigger. They also say Trump is continuing to complain that his advisers are advocating he stay in all these wars “forever.”
Whether that presages Trump defying his advisers and making a big announcement or not remains to be seen. So far, he has tended to ignore his own gut instinct to withdraw from countries like Afghanistan and has gone with military recommendations, but with the failures mounting he is clearly running out of patience with those recommendations to stay the course.
The white market resources being wasted in Afghanistan aren’t harming Russia in the least. The black market resources gained aren’t having much effect either, as far as can be told, relative to the destruction of the U.S. white economy.
The D.S. may disagree with Trump on Russia, but remaining just for the black economy opium money ultimately works out in white economy Long War (against Russia) terms as making dimes to spend dollars.
The Shadow Empire can’t compete with Russia’s white/grey economy for overall efficiency. Texas alone out-competes the Russian economy openly. Leave Afghanistan to the CIA and the mercs, if they can hold it. The Pentagon is a white economy asset first.
The generals that advised Trump were called the ‘adults’ in the room, but their obsession playing with toy soldiers in dirty sandboxes was juvenile.
Nice comment… When do the Boyz awake from their dreams of winning on turf unfamiliar…??? When will they start to defend America’s values…????
Put yourselves in their jackboots, and you may find seductive arguments that they are fighting for America’s values. Most of them would be easily countered, so end up classified and out of public scrutiny.
The drug trade, for example happens. We saw what it did to the Qing Chinese Empire. Might not the logical conclusion be to own the trade yourself? That was actually a fear of the British East India Company, that the Chinese might grow their own opium and pop their bubble.
What actually happened, though, was instead the Chinese instituted an almost-successful zero-tolerance program that took the Opium Wars to break. The Chinese lost the Opium Wars because their society was already broken by corruption and rampant drug abuse, including a ruling elite that thought breaking their own people enhanced their power.
Its doubtful that Imperial Washington Court cares for counter-projection arguments, though. Taming the middle class barbarians is a program so far along they’re kind of stuck on it.
WHO is Commander in Chief again??? Maybe we should just re-write the Constitution to make the Deep State the FIRST branch of government and finally put it out in the open so the citizens will finally wake up to the truth.