The Guardian: But the glory of guns outweighs the greatness of money.. Can the West learn from the lesson of Afghanistan

Guardian columnist (says

, ) Simon Jenkins said military adventures have long attracted Western politicians, even those who say they will not interfere in the

affairs of

others, wondering: Are these leaders learn this lesson from time Afghanistan?

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in the

newspaper,

Jenkins explains

that US President Joe Biden announced the end of an era of major military operations to reshape other countries, and Biden emphasized that the president's mission is to protect and defend "America's core national security interests", not build new countries in foreign countries.

The writer returns saying that Biden is not the first president to make such allegations. All his new predecessors won power by pledging that they would not intervene militarily abroad, but they tried to cling to power by waging war, and these are Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

The temptation of wars

Genghis notes that for powerful nations, the temptation to foreign wars can start strong. Roaring planes, falling bombs, and surging armies make headlines, citing the famous saying, "The glory of guns outweighs the greatness of money."

However, the writer reports that there is a new book entitled “The Geopolitics of the Last Time” by the Portuguese academic Bruno Macaes that predicts a political landscape completely different from the one we have been familiar with until today, due to the climate crisis, a horrific world of great powers that do not compete with each other but with Nature, and the subject of competition between nations in the future will be the number of computer geeks, virologists, and electronic processors of financial affairs.

He doubted whether this would reduce the allure of the military adventure of contemporary politicians, calling on those who feel that these ongoing wars of intervention are evil and counterproductive, to seize the moment to reflect on the pain.

He concluded that the world may hope that America will now retreat to a period of introversion and sober thinking, as it did after its defeat in Vietnam in 1975, but he returned and expressed his pessimism that this might not happen, saying even with Iraq and Afghanistan sinking under the horizon, he feels that Taiwan and Ukraine stumble on the horizon.