The US's Strategic Nemesis

The withdrawal from Afghanistan so is that there is no remaining stomach for any troop deployment of any size anywhere. I think they're just going to end up going in both boots first without even having a proxy war intermediary. The US can fight a proxy war with Russia for one part because they're able to destroy Russia direct Russian military assets in the Ukraine whereas they don't have to risk you know US personnel That's just free money from a geo strategic standpoint to draw that out as long as possible.