The reality of American imperialism and occupation is poorly understood. It necessitates ritual humiliation of occupied peoples, has no effective system to prevent systemic racial violence and extrajudicial killings.

Here is footage shot by Miles Lagoz as part of his documentary

Occupying forces have powers beyond any police force and yet none of the restraints of civilian law. It can only produce negative outcomes, it cannot win hearts and minds, you clearly cannot build a functional state through the force of occupation.

NATO nations have no will to reign in the violence of their soldiers. The individual involved in the below execution was found to be acting in self defense by internal processes.

You have to think of the thousands of interactions which are not caught on camera. content warning

We have a podcast coming up on the global role and character of American imperialism. If you're interested, give me a follow - and check out @inteldispatches for new content as it's released!

https://twitter.com/simulacrax/status/1204403276134961152?s=19

It's not just ethical standards by which the occupation of Afghanistan is a failure. It's a strategic and political quagmire.