How Will the Biden Administration Deal With Afghanistan?

By Sikander Hayat

The urge in the US these days is to delegate everything to do with South Asia to India and make India a defence wall against Chinese aspirations. President Trump wanted to leave Afghanistan fully and to that end he was supporting and sponsoring talks between President Ghani’s government in Kabul and the Taliban. Trump drew down American troops in Afghanistan to put pressure on Ashraf Ghani's government to talk to the Taliban. Trump wanted to concentrate on the United States as the debt mountain continues to reach new heights as the current US debt is $27.3 trillions as of January 2021.

The United States needs to get its own house in order, keep its currency as the reserve currency of the world and to do that it needs to bring down the debt levels to manageable levels and cut deficit spending.

Right now the Biden government is doing exactly the opposite by doubling down on deficit spending, spending trillions on cheques to people who in some cases don't even need this money, putting savings rates at historic highs of around 13%.

It is hard to imagine if the establishment in Washington is dumb enough to create an unnesary bubble and therefore store huge problems for future generations. Due to the historic amount of money being given to people to stay home and not look for jobs, America is incentivizing idleness and a huge boom in speculative stock markets. Right now there is a frenzy to buy stocks and put savings wherever there is space. Bitcoin has reached a frothy USD 31,593 sending this biggest ever ponzi scheme to new heights of stupidity with the tacit support of the US government.

Biden has enough problems at home and Afghanistan is clearly a distraction from very important tasks at home. Worst thing the Biden Administration can do is to hand over Afghanistan to India and then move away without bringing the Taliban into government in the Pashtun provinces of Afghanistan. This will be a recipe for disaster as war will break out in Afghanistan between Indian sponsored Kabul government and the Taliban. In such a scenario Pakistan will back anyone who is fighting Indian interests on the western borders of Pakistan as Pakistan cannot tolerate Indian puppet government on its western border.

Joe Biden needs to continue with the policy of Trump and help heal the rifts in Afghanistan and help achieve a peaceful Afghanistan at peace with its neighbours and its own citizens.