Following the developments in the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the political researcher will enter the process of comparing some elements between the global American presence and the corresponding presence of the imperial policy of Great Britain in its time, when the sun in its possessions did not he never ate.
The British accepted after the wars the fact that an expansion of their influence globally necessarily meant human losses even at the level of the upper classes of society.
US society, on the other hand, has begun to adapt its military doctrine (and because of technology) to wars, either through agents or mercenaries and using UAVs, always aiming for minimal American casualties.
The British in the decades of their empire not only settled on their possessions but were most interested in the local peoples and conquered populations under their rule.
It is no coincidence that after their independence from Britain many of these countries adopted the British system of government and the corresponding British legislation.
The Americans do not seem to have the same patience as the British. They consider enforcement only by force, without considering the local cultural environment and the peculiarities that exist in each country they go to.
The only cases in which the US applied correctly, in addition to crushing its adversary militarily, but also changing the social and moral framework of the loser, then making him adopt US political and moral values, were in the case of Germany and Japan. after the end of World War II.
However, the result proves that this was achieved through their forced presence in these countries due to the existence of the Cold War. At that time, the United States was rightly promoting the moral advantage of liberal democracy over communism.
The United States has not been defeated militarily in Afghanistan. They simply did not show the proper patience, which in this case led them to make mistakes – in order to pass on the moral advantage of their liberal democracy.
