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USA will remain a powerful and important country. Most of our external debt's are in dollars. Mess in Afghanistan will continue with USA still being involved. Pakistan can not ignore the USA. It needs to play the game but tone it down if Biden is unresponsive.1. We have always undersold ourselves.
2. We are not loyal to our own cause.
In my opinion Pakistan has finally after a long while found a perfect escape from the US and Western hemisphere. Finally China came knocking on our door. Finally Pakistan and China found common ground.
I don't understand our leaders. They have this fascination and obsession to be allied with the US despite so many hurdles and issues.
USA will remain a powerful and important country. Most of our external debt's are in dollars. Mess in Afghanistan will continue with USA still being involved. Pakistan can not ignore the USA. It needs to play the game but tone it down if Biden is unresponsive.
What's the "surprise" here????
Few reasons for the US being extremely upset with Pak:
- Defeating the USA in Afganistan with the help of the USA
- Letting China bypass all the bottlenecks (Malacca straits, Suez Canal etc.) in SLOCs
- Inviting Russia to acquire a permanent footprint in the Asian Ocean
- Leaving the US policymakers with India being their principal spearhead - it's the biggest curse for the Pentagon
- Being the catalyst for the downfall of the US hegemony
- Etc.
Diplomacy is all about tossing the "hot potatoes" to others ASAP!! It's like saying, "Sins have left us"......100%. This is why the US is ignoring Pakistan. It is basically showing a facepalm to Pakistan for the reasons you have summed up. Why should we then still approach the US fully knowing what the US response will be?
I don't think that the case at all. The reason why the Washington establishment is so upset with Islamabad. They got conditioned to Pakistan yielding to behind the door USA pressure. No longer the case with the USA's shift to India.That is all true, but Pakistan doesn't have to get on its knees to seek recognition from Washington. Pakistan has its own value. With or without US approval and recognition. Pakistan is underselling itself by seeking a reset in ties. It seems desperate. There is absolutely no need to plead for a reset in relations with the US. If US has the appetite to seek relations with Pakistan they will approach Pakistan.
The Obama administration also cold shouldered the Zardari regime at its end. They put a lot of influence into the Afghanistan surge only for it to ultimately fail. Most of the key people are now in the new Biden administration. PTI or PPP or PML....all would be cold shouldered by Biden.
It is what it is, quietly focus on trade. Becoming a strategic priority for the USA is not what its cracked up to be.
Malacca strait can't be replaced in importance.Letting China bypass all the bottlenecks (Malacca straits, Suez Canal etc.) in SLOCs
I don't think that the case at all. The reason why the Washington establishment is so upset with Islamabad. They got conditioned to Pakistan yielding to behind the door USA pressure. No longer the case with the USA's shift to India.
This is an excellent analysis from Pakistan perspective.
America is doing this for India so that India can be better enslaved to fight American war against China.
They fcuked up Pakistan. Thanks to weak leadership Pakistan sold itself cheap.The U.S is throwing a little hissy fit just because we fcuked them
There is such a thing as political myopia. United States is predominatl;y a country made of European migrants that looks at Europe as the motherlode of their civilization. Given the huge influence of Jews the Near East can also be included in the US horizon. Thus this region occupies America's primary interest.When the US leaves Afghanistan, what advantage does any country in the region surrounding Afghanistan would have to offer to the US? Strategically US influence in the region will be diminished and they will totally shift to South East Asia - Pacific theatre. That is probably what the whole Afghan exit is all about.
Better to not be strategically important to the USA from a military perspective. Many countries in East Asia have only prospered when the USA is strategically/militarily focused else where. The meek inherit the earth.When the US leaves Afghanistan, what advantage does any country in the region surrounding Afghanistan would have to offer to the US? Strategically US influence in the region will be diminished and they will totally shift to South East Asia - Pacific theatre. That is probably what the whole Afghan exit is all about.