The task now is not to reward Trump politically, nor to excuse the recklessness that produced this war. It is to prevent the war from returning. Democrats can condemn the decision to start it without sabotaging the agreement that ends it. They can hold Trump accountable without helping Netanyahu drag the United States back into conflict. The choice before them is not between opposing Trump and supporting peace. It is between learning from Americaâs endless wars and repeating them.
Archiv: USA ends war in Afghanistan 30-08-2021 / Kriegsenden
Alle wissen, wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine beendet werden kann
(March 5, 2022)
Die MaĂnahmen bzw Bedingungen fĂŒr und in der Ukraine.
â NeutralitĂ€t, also weder Mitgliedschaft im Nordatlantikpakt N.A.T.O., noch in der EuropĂ€ischen Union. Modell Ă€hnlich wie Yugoslawien und Finnland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
â bestimmt nicht demilitarisiert, sondern bis an die ZĂ€hne bewaffnet, allerdings ohne AtomzĂ€hne jedweder Art, weder Entwicklung noch Stationierung
â nach Wahl der ukrainischen Regierungen bzw Parlamentsmehrheiten jeweils Handelspakte und Waffenlieferungen mit bzw durch E.U. und N.A.T.O., Ă€hnlich wie mit der Schweiz oder Schweden.
Top 5 moments during Trump-Harris presidential debate: ‚I‘m talking now‘
„Do you believe you bear any responsibility in the way that withdrawal played out?“ Harris was asked by a moderator.
„Well, I will tell you, I agreed with President Biden‘s decision to pull out of Afghanistan.“ she said.
„Four presidents said they would and Joe Biden did.“
During the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, 13 U.S. service members were killed in a terrorist attack.
Alle wissen, wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine beendet werden kann
(5. MĂ€rz 2022)
Was eine (weitere) verantwortliche, eine rationale, eine solidarische MaĂnahme aus dem WeiĂen Haus wĂ€re, Ă€hnlich wie die ZurĂŒckhaltung was die Provokationen aus dem Kreml angeht: von sich aus auf eine N.A.T.O.-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zu verzichten. Neben der Lieferung von Defensivwaffen gĂ€be es nichts Besseres, was âder Westenâ derzeit fĂŒr die Ukraine tun kann. Man könnte vielleicht auch verkĂŒnden, man habe sich in den letzten 30 Jahren mit der N.A.T.O. genug gedehnt. Und zwanzig Jahre lang genug ruhmreichen Terrorkrieg gefĂŒhrt. Ein paar Millionen Tote wĂŒrden nun reichen.
Das Ende des Afghanistan-Krieges, allein beendet durch den Befehl eines einzigen Mannes, Joe Biden, war diesbezĂŒglich ein guter Anfang. Zur Erinnerung; die âAuthorization for Use of Military Forceâ aus 2001, das entscheidende KriegsermĂ€chtigungsgesetz was in Deutschland bis heute fast keiner kennt, ist vom Kongress immer noch nicht aufgehoben, obwohl dies bereits 2013 von Barack Obama angekĂŒndigt wurde.
Enquete-Kommission zu Afghanistan: „Strategisch gescheitert“
Ebenso deutlich wie in der Gesamtbewertung wird die Enquete-Kommission des Bundestags bei der Auflistung der einzelnen Verfehlungen und VersÀumnisse:
„Eine fortlaufende, selbstkritische Bestandsaufnahme hinsichtlich der sehr hoch gesetzten Ziele hat nicht ausreichend stattgefunden“, kritisiert das Gremium und nimmt damit sĂ€mtliche mit dem Einsatz befasste Bundesregierungen in den Jahren 2001 bis 2021 aufs Korn.
âI wish I had been wrong,â says Barbara Lee, lone congresswoman who voted to oppose Afghan war in 2001
(August 18, 2021)
In the days after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, just one member of Congress voted against giving President Bush authority to go to war in Afghanistan.
Barbara Lee, a Democratic representative from California, warned at the time that approving the so-called Authorisation for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) could mean the US would be embarking âon an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target.â
U.S. Central Command Releases Report on August Abbey Gate Attack
(Feb. 4, 2022)
A total of 11 Marines, a soldier and a sailor were killed in the ISIS-K attack with a total of 45 wounded.
Contrary to first reports, it was not a complex attack. „The investigation found that a single explosive device killed at least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members by explosively directing ball bearings through a packed crowd into our men and women at Abbey Gate,“ McKenzie said. „The investigation found no definitive proof that anyone was ever hit or killed by gunfire either U.S. or Afghan. This conclusion was based upon the careful consideration of sworn testimony of more than 100 witnesses, and especially those witnesses and Observation Towers â both American and British â who were in locations unaffected by the blast, and that had commanding views of the scene before, during and after the explosive attack.“
Pentagon to revisit Kabul airport bombing with new witness interviews
Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, who oversees U.S. Central Command, ordered the additional interviews âto ensure we do our due diligenceâ with information that came to light after the military closed its investigation of the incident, Michael Lawhorn, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. By itself, the move does not formally reopen the investigation, completed in November 2021, but the general could determine that doing so is necessary once the additional interviews are complete.
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The attackâs suspected mastermind was killed by the Taliban earlier this year, U.S. officials disclosed in April.
Taliban Sign Multibillion-Dollar Afghan Mining Deals
(August 31, 2023)
Shahabuddin Dilawar, the Taliban minister of mines and petroleum, said the seven contracts cover the extraction and processing of gold, copper, iron, lead and zinc in four Afghan provinces â Takhar, Ghor, Herat and Logar.
The nationally televised signing ceremony occurred as the de facto Afghan authorities marked the second anniversary of the withdrawal of all U.S.-led NATO troops from the country after nearly 20 years of war with the then-insurgent Taliban.
The Tale the West Tells Itself About Ukraine
Without question, Russia is committing horrific, inexcusable aggression against Ukraine, and imperialist attitudes in Moscow run deep. But partly because of those attitudes, Russiaâs leaders are also reacting to NATOâs expansion. Folding Ukraine into the alliance wonât end that impulse, even with U.S. backing and the nuclear guarantee it brings. Ukraineâs best path to peace is to be well armed and supported outside NATO. (…)
In the run-up to NATOâs summit in 2008, Mr. Bush wanted to give Ukraine and Georgia a formal path to enter the alliance, called a Membership Action Plan. Before the meeting, William Burns, the current C.I.A. director who was then ambassador to Russia, cautioned that such a move would have deadly consequences.
Alle wissen, wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine beendet werden kann
(5. MĂ€rz 2022)
Was eine (weitere) verantwortliche, eine rationale, eine solidarische MaĂnahme aus dem WeiĂen Haus wĂ€re, Ă€hnlich wie die ZurĂŒckhaltung was die Provokationen aus dem Kreml angeht: von sich aus auf eine N.A.T.O.-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zu verzichten. Neben der Lieferung von Defensivwaffen gĂ€be es nichts Besseres, was âder Westenâ derzeit fĂŒr die Ukraine tun kann. Man könnte vielleicht auch verkĂŒnden, man habe sich in den letzten 30 Jahren mit der N.A.T.O. genug gedehnt. Und zwanzig Jahre lang genug ruhmreichen Terrorkrieg gefĂŒhrt. Ein paar Millionen Tote wĂŒrden nun reichen.
Das Ende des Afghanistan-Krieges, allein beendet durch den Befehl eines einzigen Mannes, Joe Biden, war diesbezĂŒglich ein guter Anfang. Zur Erinnerung; die âAuthorization for Use of Military Forceâ aus 2001, das entscheidende KriegsermĂ€chtigungsgesetz was in Deutschland bis heute fast keiner kennt, ist vom Kongress immer noch nicht aufgehoben, obwohl dies bereits 2013 von Barack Obama angekĂŒndigt wurde.
Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President: Let‘s Finish the Job
#JoeBiden
Alle wissen, wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine beendet werden kann
(5. MĂ€rz 2022)
Was eine (weitere) verantwortliche, eine rationale, eine solidarische MaĂnahme aus dem WeiĂen Haus wĂ€re, Ă€hnlich wie die ZurĂŒckhaltung was die Provokationen aus dem Kreml angeht: von sich aus auf eine N.A.T.O.-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine zu verzichten. Neben der Lieferung von Defensivwaffen gĂ€be es nichts Besseres, was âder Westenâ derzeit fĂŒr die Ukraine tun kann. Man könnte vielleicht auch verkĂŒnden, man habe sich in den letzten 30 Jahren mit der N.A.T.O. genug gedehnt. Und zwanzig Jahre lang genug ruhmreichen Terrorkrieg gefĂŒhrt. Ein paar Millionen Tote wĂŒrden nun reichen.
Das Ende des Afghanistan-Krieges, allein beendet durch den Befehl eines einzigen Mannes, Joe Biden, war diesbezĂŒglich ein guter Anfang. Zur Erinnerung; die âAuthorization for Use of Military Forceâ aus 2001, das entscheidende KriegsermĂ€chtigungsgesetz was in Deutschland bis heute fast keiner kennt, ist vom Kongress immer noch nicht aufgehoben, obwohl dies bereits 2013 von Barack Obama angekĂŒndigt wurde.
The collapse of U.S. influence over Saudi Arabia and the Kingdomâs new alliances with China and Iran are painful emblems of the abject failure of the Neocon strategy of maintaining U.S. global hegemony with aggressive projections of military power.
(04.04.2023)
China has displaced the American Empire by deftly projecting, instead, economic power. Over the past decade, our country has spent trillions bombing roads, ports, bridges, and airports. China spent the equivalent building the same across the developing world. The Ukraine war is the final collapse of the Neocon‘s short-lived âAmerican Century.â The Neocon projects in Iraq and Ukraine have cost $8.1 trillion, hollowed out our middle class, made a laughingstock of U.S. military power and moral authority, pushed China and Russia into an invincible alliance, destroyed the dollar as the global currency, cost millions of lives and done nothing to advance democracy or win friendships or influence.
McConnell says Democrats ‚headed toward a pretty good beatingâ in midterms
(April 10, 2022)
„His policies have not worked, beginning with the precipitous and ill-advised withdrawal from Afghanistan, which became kind of a metaphor for the incompetence thatâs been on full display during this administration,“ the senator said. „None of the policies they have pursued have worked out well.“
Nato: Olaf Scholz will Verteidigungsausgaben erhöhen
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (SPD) hat der Nato höhere deutsche MilitĂ€rausgaben in Aussicht gestellt. Die deutschen Verteidigungsausgaben seien zuletzt „in einer Weise gestiegen, wie das viele Jahre nicht der Fall war“, sagte Scholz nach einem Treffen mit BĂŒndnis-GeneralsekretĂ€r Jens Stoltenberg zum Abschluss seiner Antrittsreise nach BrĂŒssel. „Das ist etwas, was wir fortsetzen werden nach den Möglichkeiten, die wir haben“, sagte der SPD-Politiker.
Joe Biden: âZum ersten Mal seit 20 Jahren befinden sich die Vereinigten Staaten nicht im Kriegâ
Der PrÀsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in seiner Rede gestern Nachmittag (MEZ) auf der Allgemeinen Versammlung (Vollversammlung) der Vereinten Nationen:
Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Over the last eight months, I have prioritized rebuilding our alliances, revitalizing our partnerships, and recognizing theyâre essential and central to Americaâs enduring security and prosperity.
We have reaffirmed our sacred NATO Alliance to Article 5 commitment. Weâre working with our Allies toward a new strategic concept that will help our Alliance better take on evolving threats of today and tomorrow.
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The future will belong to those who embrace human dignity, not trample it.
The future will belong to those who unleash the potential of their people, not those who stifle it.
The future will belong to those who give their people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hand.
Authoritarianism â the authoritarianism of the world may seek to proclaim the end of the age of democracy, but theyâre wrong.
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These are the challenges that we â will determine what the world looks like for our children and our grandchildren, and what theyâll inherit. We can only meet them by looking to the future.
I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years, with the United States not at war. Weâve turned the page.
For the first time in 20 years, the United States is not at war. Weâve turned the page. All the unmatched strength, energy, commitment, will, and resources of our nation are now fully and squarely focused on whatâs ahead of us, not what was behind.
Biden: U.N. address marks ‚the first time in 20 years‘ U.S. is not at war
Biden said his administration will focus on promoting peace through diplomacy and development assistance, announcing that âthe U.S. is making a $10 billion commitment to end hunger and invest in food systems at home and abroad.â
âOne way we can enhance security and reduce violence is by seeking to improve the lives of people around the world,â he said.
Wednesdayâs House action follows a blowout bipartisan vote by the Senate Armed Services Committee to boost its version of the defense bill by $25 billion. Only one Democrat on the committee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), opposed that proposal.
House panel backs $24B Pentagon budget boost, defying Biden
The proposal, offered by the committeeâs top Republican, Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, would pour an extra $23.9 billion into buying more weapons, and boost research and development, construction, and maintenance accounts. If approved, the new topline spending level would be $740 billion.
Fourteen Democrats broke ranks to push the GOP budget proposal over the finish line.
The Pentagon has announced an investigation into the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan. @CBS_Herridge explains how the probe will look into the judgment calls made as the Taliban gained momentum ahead of the military‘s exit:
Pentagon-Chef: Afghanistan-Abzug soll evaluiert werden
US-Verteidigungsminister Lloyd Austin will die AblĂ€ufe beim Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan evaluieren â aber ohne Eile. âKeine Operation ist je perfektâ, sagte Austin gestern in Washington auf die Frage, ob das US-MilitĂ€r im RĂŒckblick etwas hĂ€tte anders machen sollen.
87 Retired Admirals and Generals Demand Resignation of SECDEF and CJCS
(30.08.2021)
The letter takes aim at the President and the highest ranks of military leadership, but mostly chastises them for not doing more to convince the Commander-in-Chief to maintain a US troop presence in the country.
Despite reported assurances from the Taliban that the remaining Americans who desire to leave Afghanistan will be afforded the opportunity to do so, the letter claims they are „de facto hostages of the Taliban“.
Strangely, the letter also claims that China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are the beneficiaries of the withdrawal.
The War In Afghanistan Cost America $300 Million Per Day For 20 Years, With Big Bills Yet To Come
(16.08.2021)
Naturally, the United States has financed the Afghan war with borrowed money. Brown University researchers estimate that more than $500 billion in interest has already been paid (included in the $2.26 trillion total sum), and they figure that by 2050 the cost of interest alone on our Afghan war debt could reach $6.5 trillion. That amounts to $20,000 for each and every U.S. citizen.