Is the snake willing to play as they want?

"The Taliban took control of Afghanistan after the government collapsed on Sunday. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded that the terrorists had won the 20-year war," NDTV. "Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan's civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters. In reality, it only took a few short days," CNN. Shows how amateurish US armed forces, intelligence and analysts are. "Although Afghan security forces were well funded and well equipped, they put up little resistance as Taliban militants seized much of the country following the withdrawal of US troops in early July." "The US left Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the middle of the night without notifying the base's new Afghan commander, who discovered Americans' departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said," AP. The Americans have apparently been training Afghan forces for over 20 years and they slink away in the middle of the night under cover of darkness. If your teachers run away with their tails between their legs it is not likely to fill Afghan forces with confidence, is it? Looters knew of the craven flight of the Americans before Afghan armed forces and within hours, "Outside the base gates, scrap dealers and vendors were photographed hawking items left behind by the departing Americans, including basketballs, bicycles and helmets, electric fans, noise-canceling headphones -- even laundry detergent," nypost.com. "Analysts and US lawmakers -- both Republicans and Democrat -- have been comparing the so-called fall of Saigon with the Taliban takeover of Kabul," BBC. Images of Americans fleeing in panic from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975 are being compared to images from Kabul, the difference being that the numbers in Kabul are much smaller. "As the US races to evacuate diplomats via helicopters from its embassy in Kabul amid the Taliban's rapid advance, President Joe Biden's insistence during a July press conference that this would not happen has resurfaced on social media," Newsweek. It is not entirely Biden's fault, however. Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad in 2011, wikipedia, which helped then President barack Obama win his re-election in 2012. Joe Biden was his Vice-President. Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan admitted that "Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) provided the United States with leads that helped them find and kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden", Scroll.in. As a reward Obama supplied Pakistan with F16 fighter jets, heavy bombs and advanced missiles, firstpost.com. Biden is being pilloried for his handling of Afghanistan, justly so, but the Taliban is sponsored, trained and armed by Pakistan, News18, and no one knows whether Pakistani army units are directly involved or not. Afghanistan has Iran to the west, Pakistan to the south and east, China in the northeast and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to the north. Taliban are hardline Sunnis, BBC, while Iran is Shia. China seems likely to recognise a Taliban government because, according to certain analysts, Afghanistan has over $1 trillion worth of minerals, including 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminium, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium", nbcnews.com. "A series of photos published last month by Chinese state media of Foreign Minister Wang Yi standing shoulder to shoulder with visiting Taliban officials decked out in traditional tunic and turban raised eyebrows on the county's social media," Reuters. The Pakistan army must be ecstatic that Afghanistan is now controlled by its proxy, so it can now concentrate on attacking India. Iran has a 25-year trade deal with China, so it might be hoping to bypass US blockade of its ships by trading directly with China over land, wikipedia. All of them want to play with a friendly snake. No one knows what the snake will do.