Views of the World by Cartoon Movement-US for September 02, 2021

Nearly all (all?) of these Views of the World cartoons lately have been nothing more than re-submissions of older cartoons that most of us have already seen. It’s a very very big world out there. Is there nothing else new?

You would think Russia would have already learned their lesson.

China would have a better chance. They wouldn’t worry about collateral damge, they would wipe out the Taliban and ISIS-k without worrying about civilians. Just like the Republicans that bitch about the rules of engagement limiting our forces. They didn’t care about civilians loses, until civilians killed on Biden’s watch.

Hard to see how this is gonna work; the two most intolerant regimes dealing with the most fanatical, religious, terrorist force; and not to forget ISIS and al-qaeda…

And yer welcome to it!

I can’t imagine either of those sending troops there or participating militarily to any extent. I feel that was our biggest mistake, extending a large military action overseas in another country’s civil war.

Russia already failed in Afghanistan but like the USA! They’ll not learn and China is loving the evil society….right up their morals and scruples…NOT!

I think Putin will gladly let China take its turn

Russia had their turn and gave up in half the time the US did.

I will repeat an earlier posting – historically, no outside country can govern what is called Afghanistan, today.

The country has no centralized government – Kabul is the seat of what passes for a “central” government but the reality is that each village or local area is self-governed – there is an ever-shifting network of tribal chieftains and local warlords that SOMETIMES pay lip service to Kabul, but USUALLY go their own way.

The Taliban never governed, they only ruled the country, and that’s all they’ll do again – have you ever tried to “train” a cat? The same principle applies, here – as long as you tell it to do something it WANTS to do, you’re on safe ground, but woe betide you if you try to initiate some action it’s not interested in.

If the Chinese want to “rule” – okay, that will work – establishing trade routes for the heroin that’s harvested from the poppies grown there – that might be okay – coming up with new ways to process it might work -but “nation building” is beyond the scope of the possible and the Chinese should know this from their own history.

Thinking that Russia is willing to repeat their Afghan mistakes of the past?

Russia’s already done Afghanistan; it’s a large part of why the USSR collapsed. I doubt they’re eager to repeat the experience.

Now the USA is about to collapse, thanks to the vicious lying republican Taliban.

If China prevails then they must publish a book: Winning Dumb Wars for Dummies. It has to show us how every empire that preceded them could not avoid shooting themselves in both feet.

I expect that China and Russia know that armed conquest is a non-starter, and will try trade and development as a cheaper and more effective tactic. After a short while, that path would probably be open to the US as well—look at US relations with Vietnam.

Is that the SNL " Jim Carrey Biden" ? Seriously looks like Jim Carrey’s Smile. : )