Now that Joe Biden has handled the Afghan evacuation crisis with this technique, his vice president will travel to Asia this week to express his views on the future of the Indo-Pacific region, which no one cares about recently.
Obviously, Kamala Harris is now ready to move on from Biden’s premature withdrawal from Afghanistan, the redeployment of late troops there, and the resulting chaotic evacuation efforts of thousands of people who should have left long ago. NS.
Over the weekend, Harris boasted to another Asian audience there that only she believed that the Biden administration “successfully reduced the embassy” in Kabul.
This is a drawdown from a military helicopter on the roof of the embassy, just like the Saigon helicopter in 1975 Biden said it will never happen In Afghanistan, because his retreat was organized very well.
Harris is scheduled to speak to a prominent crowd in Singapore on Tuesday to “explain her vision for the Indo-Pacific region.”
Who knows that this former senator was born and spent most of the public work in California, at least 8,440 miles from the area, she has a vision for that area, let alone a suitable area. No matter what vision Biden may have From his resort. Harris’ late mother was from India, 4,200 miles from Singapore.
Allegedly, Harris’ visit was intended to demonstrate the continued commitment of the United States to the remote and diverse Pacific region. And give her some foreign policy seals.
However, because the vice president is far away, this visit also shows that Biden is unlikely to resign this week. But this will expose the leaders of Singapore and Vietnam to possible successors to Biden.
According to the government’s briefing on her travels, Harris’ speech will focus on economic partnerships, global health issues, such as the pandemic still raging there, and safety. All of this is covered by a clichéd theme of how the world is interconnected and interdependent, in case two or three people have not noticed the Internet.
After Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, it would be a difficult choice for a diplomatic rookie like Harris to talk about the need for interconnection in such a place close to the vast expanse of China.
In particular, TV screens around the world are still full of images of Kabul terror and panic, because the United States ended another military defeat and conducted military interventions against local insurgents for 20 years, but failed in a chaotic withdrawal. It is no different from the humiliating military intervention in Saigon in 1975.
If the world today is so interconnected and interdependent, what will Asian leaders see in their future under the chaos of the U.S. government? The U.S. government’s endless-and ultimately useless-overseas military intervention and training Tired of the withdrawal of Americans so widely supported?
It is unlikely that any US government-even the usually eager Democrats-will soon intervene to defend allies. China is taking notes. Taiwan, are you watching?
Just a few weeks ago, Biden was elected president of Afghanistan — now exiled — assuring that the United States will still support his country.
Not to mention hurriedly leaving this desolate land, so much so that the United States “accidentally” equipped the conquered insurgents with modern weapons and military equipment worth approximately $85 billion, which were intended for use by the Afghan government. . Thank you, American taxpayer.
Harris will also praise the United States’ partnerships with Singapore and other countries in the region, claiming that they remain a top priority because “when we work together, we become stronger.”
This is from a president Who refused to answer the call In recent weeks, the Taliban (the word means “student” in Pashto) have swept Afghanistan. The US government failed to inform loyal NATO allies of the sudden abandonment of Bagram Air Force Base last month, allowing others to rescue their citizens stranded in Kabul and other places.
After Singapore, Harris will continue to Vietnam, An untimely choice of itinerary will certainly remind people of the last time the US military failed in a poorly planned exit, which gave up thousands of local collaborators and produced the iconic exit. Facing the sudden insurgents, the Saigon Embassy was evacuated in chaos.
Harrison was responsible for overseeing Biden’s southern border crisis, but she was criticized for some mistakes during her first trip to Guatemala and Mexico in June.
Vietnam will also be tricky. It shares an 800-mile border with China. But Hanoi wants to be seen as an economic partner, not just an ally of the United States, to curb China’s land and sea expansion ambitions.
See how or if it will be fun Harris meets this challengeAs well as any mention of the shameful end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, what Biden said bears no resemblance to the shameful end of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
According to the memoirs of the late Donald Drumsfield, a senator named Joe Biden saw tremendous political influence in 1975, complicating the efforts of then President Gerald Ford to assist South Vietnamese refugees.
But this is the kind of inconvenient history, such as the hurriedly organized mass evacuation, which left too many people and would not show up during Harris’ short visit.
