One single line with global ramifications. It altered the visions of many. It has made all the countries to rethink global strategies. Lots of question presented with few answers themselves leading to further questions. Why all of a sudden? Why has USA been bogged down by 80K soldiers.? and many more.
Being one of the major arms supplier to the entire world, what is it that they are expecting. With majority of killings in-house every other day with automatics owned by majority of the American population. The arms industry is one of the strongest including the pharma industry which exert lot of clout in the administering of the country. The country has not taken any steps to stop the killings within the country. No law maker is even talking of a solution to this menace which is resulting in innocent lives being lost to individual maniacs who have understood and experienced the work "freedom" in its most negative form. The historical freedom of allowing individuals by weapons and retain them was to ensure sufficient capability with the common man so that they could fight for their country if required, since the armed forces at that time in USA were still very small.
How that turned into a large industry is a very good case study for any Business grad. Let us say that the US brings in a law, which would require all individuals to surrender their weapons, just imagine, Because I am not seeing it happen, However, let us imagine in our wildest dreams it is going to happen. Good, very good. Congrats USA. Now let us go to the next area where the US arms industry is selling its weapons, the world. Just wait, I am not telling that they should have that Tony stark moment and decide to stop weapons immediately, which is again, not going to happen. It employs a lot of people and is a very big revenue generator for the government.
What can the US do to make some improvement here? Well, for starters, it can sell only to the governments, elected governments. But then there are lot of governments across the world that once elected start enacting laws to increase the dictatorial power within the gambit of democracy. So, how will the seller know that the governments to whom he is selling the arms will be used to uphold democracy. Democracy and freedom cannot be upheld with armed struggles. Armed struggles will result in factions which will be detrimental to the common man. Because these factions think they know better than the common man, what the common man wants.
By leaving Afghanistan, USA made another statement. Destroying a country and having contractors rebuild the country is passe, old strategy. The strategies of going to war in another country by its physical presence is very costly and dangerous. They just looked at how China is doing the same thing in a different manner. The economical war. Get countries to sign contracts which will be honored by international law. Cripple the country economically, get your businesses in. give the citizens no option but to do business with the Chinese companies or totally exit from the deal, which in turn hands over the entire investment in foreign soil to the Chinese companies, which are in fact representing the chinese government. So beatiful. No arms, No war, No bloodshed. Just pure business.
There is one more dimension to this exit. Are there any friends to any county beyond economical dependencies. If any country is with war with another, will friends come and join them. Will this result in world war 3. With this exit, all these doubts are laid to rest. If any country with war with another, this is normally the case with nations sharing borders, they will be left to fight and whoever wins, business deals will be made. It will be very economical. The winner and the enitre global business will exploit the spoils.
If we observe the present war situations. Governments are fighting against groups who want to run the government and once they win there will be another group which is ready to do the same. With this exit, it is clear that all military coalitions are in reality, business deals, economic understandings. These are not be understood in the classic sense wherein we expect the allies to come and fight side by side.
It is a good development. Wars are nonsense. Diplomacy and economic strategies are the way to go.
