"This weekend the US experienced another “Saigon moment,” this time in Afghanistan. After a 20 year war that drained trillions from Americans’ pockets, the capital of Afghanistan fell without a fight. The corrupt Potemkin regime that the US had been propping up for two decades and the Afghan military that we had spent billions training just melted away."
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Ron Paul, Kabul Has Fallen—but Don’t Blame Biden, Mises Institute, 16 August 2021
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