Thank goodness for Amy Goodman's news and perspective, speaking truth to power.

Not a fan of Obama, Biden or the Democratic party.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/04/third-party-now-for-2024/

An invading force will enhance the patriotic credentials of whatever organized group is seen to be committed to expelling them. Whether they are communists, or Islamists doesn't really matter that much. Their ideological nature is secondary to their strategy and competence in organizing ordinary people to eliminate any invader perceived as harming community interests. Groups allied with the invader are intrinsically weakened by their perceived collaboration with the invaders causing community harm. Counterinsurgency strategies typically do little more than arouse further nationalist indignation. There may be areas where this isn't the case, but those areas in the end lose legitimacy by their political affiliation with and dependency on foreign intruders. One can forestall the eventual outcome by the use of brute force, but typically the ever increasing commitment of resources to hold off the inevitable national outcome becomes unsustainable.

It's conceivable that covert foreign support for "warlords" could also disrupt a return to stability and national government, but in a sense, their legitimacy is already tainted by the history of the war thus far.