The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
The collapse of the Afghan government shatters the myth of American invincibility promoted by the US ruling elite after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The British government frequently reports that 457 British soldiers lost their lives and 616 soldiers suffered serious or very serious injuries but has failed to estimate of the overall harm caused by British operations in its largest deployment since World War II.
The escalating collapse of the US-backed security forces is the end product of 20 years of colonial-style occupation and countless war crimes against the Afghan population.
