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The Winner in Afghanistan: China
The collapse of the American project in Afghanistan may fade fast from the news here, but don’t be fooled.
It couldn’t be more significant in ways few in this country can even begin to grasp.
- Alfred W. McCoy
- CounterPunch
“Remember, this is not Saigon,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a television audience on August 15th, the day the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital, pausing to pose for photos in the grandly gilded presidential…
He was dutifully echoing his boss, President Joe Biden, who had earlier rejected any comparison with the fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, in 1975, insisting that “there’s going to be no circumstance where…
Both were right, but not in the…