Staggering Costs – U.S. Military Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan

https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-staggering-costs–us-military-equipment-left-behind-in-afghanistan/

10 U.S. Investments In Afghanistan That Didn’t Pan Out

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/08/17/10-us-investments-in-afghanistan-that-didnt-pan-out/?sh=19774f66374c

Blood Borders and Their Discontents

https://www.geocurrents.info/geopolitics/blood-borders-and-their-discontents

America no longer lives as an empire, its model is not Rome, but the film Gangs of New York: a plutocracy of criminal gangs competing with the most filthy means.

Precisely because it no longer has the ambition to be an empire, "it even accepts that its president, Joe Biden, is defeated in Afghanistan"! in this way recited and conspicuously shameful.

He doesn't have to raise arches of triumph, he tries to dominate the world in the shadows and accumulate as much monetary wealth as possible.