I've seen this linked elsewhere. The short answer is: No. America lost Afghanistan because we spent twenty years fighting a proxy war with Pakistan without ever being able to actually talk about it. Just like we can't talk about Ecohealth Alliance making the Damn Virus or the fraudulent studies that they used to ban treating the Damn Virus with HCQ, or Obama sending the OPM Database to China, or Joe Biden being a senile puppet.

It's rather like how 1940 Russia couldn't talk about how Stalin spent the previous ten years purging the Soviet Army on German Intelligence's orders.

It'll all be disturbingly meta and recursively when this comment is voted down so y'all won't have to see all the things y'all won't talk about being talked about.