Michael Bouchard: “The rest of the world would see the U.S. withdrawal from…”

“I was not in Afghanistan. One of our sister units was though. And so I was writing the lessons learned from them. And one of our takeaways was that The rest of the world would see the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as a military disaster. Yes. 30 weak. And they would be seen as weakness. And so we could anticipate to see Iran, Russia, North Korea, China getting more aggressive in their areas of influence.” (20:49–20:55)

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