ey_tony
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If you knew anything about world history then you'd know that there has been a sectarian war/power struggle within Islam between the major sects ongoing since the 7th Century and is still alive and kicking today with several proxy power struggle wars being fought across the Middle East as we speak so try not to lecture about history and ME politics.Some very strange stuff here.
I'm assuming the third world tribal lunatics you refer to are the Afghans.
Do you know nothing of history. These people kicked us out of their country, when we were still a global superpower. They showed the USSR the door as well.
It was Trump that gave up the fight, and arranged the deal to withdraw, presenting Biden with a fait accompli.
Yes the actual withdrawal could have been handled better, but the speed with which the Taliban took over took everyone by surprise, again largely due to Trump agreeing to free them in advance of the withdrawal date.
Then let us look at Iran. The deal we had with them was far from perfect, but was a major step forward given Iran's recent history with the west.
If it were still in place it is very unlikely that the current war in Gaza and Lebanon would have come about, or that Iran would be supplying drones to Putin for use in Ukraine.
All he achieved was to turn Iran away from the beginnings of a more productive relationship with the west, and straight into the hands of Russia and China.
So perhaps you could enlighten us as to how that decision was anything other than monumentally stupid.
As for his meeting Kim what exactly came of that great piece of statesmanship, truly great, maybe the greatest piece of statesmanship ever.
Let me help you, the answer is SFA, other than probably giving Kim and Putin a good laugh.
You might also look into the history books and look up Lawrence of Arabia to get a fairer perspective of how the West has broken promises and interfered with the region's politics post WW1 n order to understand their view of the West.
The West has been interfering in ME politics for it's own purposes and we all know why.
The West/America has been complicit in interfering and effecting regime changes in the ME in recent times. Just look at Iraq, Libya et al and it would have happened to Syria if Putin hadn't stepped in to prevent it.
I'm not an apologist for Israel but Iran's ambition is to wipe all Jews and Israel off the face of the earth.
As for the Afghans, they have defied all Western attempts to conquer them for centuries so it's not just the Russians or Americans who were shown the door.
The same applies to Communism...America sought to interfere with that too and look what happened..it couldn't defeat the communists in Vietnam even though the enemy was totally outclassed by America's technology.
Up to Trump taking the seat it was all about Americas weaponry in policing the so called free world. Trump was the first POTUS to attempt to reach out to the leader of NK so please don't be so dismissive in your left wing drivel about him. Had that been Biden et al who had reached out to NK they would have been applauding him and even given him a Nobel Prize for it.
As for the rest of your drivel if you really want critical debate then bring it on