Vivek Ramaswamy: Biden's Afghanistan catastrophe – here are the 3 flawed assumptions that led to debacle

The single most effective deterrent to the Taliban would have been a credible threat from America to decimate the Taliban if the latter reneged on its prior agreements relating to America’s exit.

China heeded the lesson as it took further military steps in its pursuit of Taiwan in recent days. The second flawed assumption relates to strength of allegiance: the Biden administration wrongly assumed that the Afghan military would fight as hard for democracy as the Taliban troops would fight for their cause, naively concluding that the Afghan military would prevail simply because it was more numerous and better-armed.