Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
They're Stanford students, so they'd probably prefer that their deaths be used to Biden's benefit. It'll be a hilarious shitshow when their families issue statements condemning right-wing twitter accounts in harsher terms than they use for the Islamists that are going to kill them.
It's entirely possible the Taliban are holding back, and these attacks are being carried out by the local branch of ISIS, who the Taliban is also at war with.
I have a sinking feeling that the deaths of NATO troops/western civilians are now going to be used as an excuse to reinvade. It would be absolutely retarded but that's the Biden MO.
I don't think NATO will because NATO requires US leadership and logistics. Without that, there's no Coalition of the Willing. Especially if they're blaming Biden--rightfully so--for it.
Also, the terms of such an invasion are unclear. The original war was started to find Osama Bin Laden and remove Al-Qaeda. This war's casus belli is to take out the Taliban, but we all know the Taliban are a populist movement, which means an indiscriminate total war campaign that Western nations are unwilling to stomach. Even if they did find the guts to commit genocide, it's unclear as to whether they'd be successful at that anyways.
Who cares? He's barely coherent even when pumped full of the good drugs these days. Obviously the foreign policy/NGO muppets who actually make the FP decisions are gonna keep doing what they're doing, and keep getting the stellar results we've come to expect.
Pull out the military to reduce military casualties and condemning anyone still in Afghanistan to their fate.
War.
He's honestly forced into option 1 because if he does the second the last week of his press conferences mean he's an absolute snake to the most die hard Democrats and his approval rating would hover around 10%.
If some of them get hurt or killed, I have a feeling that'll turn them against Biden and co. Then they'll get de-platformed from the usual spots on social media by those who want to maintain the illusion, to which they'll get a chance to announce their grievances on Fox News, or The Daily Wire, or some other conservative platform. Not because these parents are conservative, mind you, but because no one else would let them say what they feel needs to be said.
It's entirely possible the Taliban are holding back, and these attacks are being carried out by the local branch of ISIS, who the Taliban is also at war with.
It's entirely possible the Taliban are holding back, and these attacks are being carried out by the local branch of ISIS, who the Taliban is also at war with.
The Taliban may be a preposterously conservative, authoritarian regime but they are not psycho nutjobs hellbent on a world caliphate like the ISIS loons are.