Newt Gingrich: Afghanistan a ‘major American defeat’ that will embolden China

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Newt Gingrich: Afghanistan a ‘major American defeat’ that will embolden China

By Fox News Staff | Fox News
August 17 2021


Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich blasted Joe Biden’s response to the collapse of Afghanistan Monday telling "Hannity" the number one goal of the president’s speech was to "blame anyone else."

NEWT GINGRICH: The Biden worldview seems to be to attack your allies, ignore your enemies, pretend that bad things aren't happening. I watched the president’s speech this afternoon and for most people if you took what you were seeing live coming out of Afghanistan, of the crowds and the fear, the takeover by the Taliban, and then you looked at the speech by this guy [Biden] who was clearly totally out of it – he has no idea what's going on and his number one goal in that speech was to blame anyone else. He said ‘the buck stops here.’ He didn't mean that. The buck stops with the Afghan army.

The buck stops with Donald Trump. The fact is this is a major American defeat that is going to have huge consequences. It’s going to embolden the Chinese whether it's in Taiwan with the South China Sea, or they're going to become allies of the Taliban. They [China] want the minerals in which Northern Afghanistan is enormously rich and they will be quite happy. They don't care what the Taliban does to women. They just want the minerals.

Newt Gingrich: Afghanistan a ‘major American defeat’ that will embolden China

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich blasted Joe Biden’s response to the collapse of Afghanistan Monday telling "Hannity" the number one goal of the president’s speech was to “blame anyone else."

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[hualushui]

The American allies have four hallucinations:
We can beat the opponent
We are strong
America loves us
America will save us

 

[Maula Jatt]

The American allies have four hallucinations:
We can beat the opponent
We am strong
America loves us
America will save us

This one's especially deadly, depending on US

That's a killer mistake right there

 

[S.Y.A]

The EU and NATO countries should think about themselves after this.

USA thinks only about itself. They should not allow themselves to be bullied by USA anymore, and they should not allow themselves to be dragged into USA's wars.

I mean our people used to criticize our govts for buckling under USA's pressure, but EU is far more pathetic than us, they are rich developed countries, and still bow down to the US.

This one's especially deadly, depending on US

That's a killer mistake right there

yeah, we thought so too, we suffered a defeat when we placed all our hopes in USA's intervention.

 

[Dalit]

A lot will be said in the coming years. One will blame China. The other Pakistan and so forth. Irrelevant if you ask me.

China, Pakistan, Iran and Russia need to act in unison. That is all that matters.

 

[lamdacore]

A lot will be said in the coming years. One will blame China. The other Pakistan and so forth. Irrelevant if you ask me.

China, Pakistan, Iran and Russia need to act in unison. That is all that matters.

I think what unfolded was an act of unison. Observe, the SCO members are the only ones with their embassies open in Kabul and waiting to recognise the new Afghan government under the rule of the IEA.