If we are handing over weapons to the taliban, it means we want to give them the ability to everage a fairer shake with china for their naural resources. We've ceded $2-3T in resources afganistan to china because we're fine with them making our batteries since we're taking back all the other high tech industry that we originally outsourced to them. They're going to need it more than us. Ceding afganistan is giving them an honorable bridge to flee across which can be spun as an american loss for optics. Actual american security is all happening in the background. We are selling positive optics to banana republics in exchange for bad optics but real security and reaccumulation of wealth.