By leaving Afghanistan, the Americans are not only seeking to reduce the cost of failing their policies, but are also pursuing multi-layered planning to create chaos in the country.
Given China’s rise to power and significant growth in various fields, especially in the economic field, and its becoming a major rival to the United States, controlling China has become one of the principles of US foreign policy in recent years and will continue to be the main focus in the future.
Although the US withdrawal from Afghanistan indicates the failure of US policies in the region and the waste of Washington’s spending, but given the importance of China’s restraint for Washington and the geopolitical importance of Afghanistan in line with this goal of Washington, other goals can be withdrawn from the country.
For the past two decades, the Americans have been directly controlling China on its western borders with a large military presence in Afghanistan and spending huge sums of money. But it seems that the United States intends to change the strategy, containment policy of China, Russia and Iran by leaving Afghanistan and minimizing its costs and taking advantage of the social space created by the Americans in the last two decades.
Chaos and instability on China’s borders in Afghanistan and their potential spread to Central Asia could challenge Beijing’s One Road-One Belt investment and China’s dream of a future trade order.
The spread of instability in Afghanistan and its spread to Central Asia could also affect Russia’s national security in favor of the United States and the West, and significantly reduce Russia’s influence in the region.
Also, any instability in Afghanistan could overshadow Iran’s economic interests in the country, reduce Iran’s access to Central Asian markets, and increase India’s cooperation with Iran in joint projects such as Chabahar and Afghanistan’s Chabahar Railway.
The importance of this US action for Iran is doubled when the government of the President has made the development of relations with neighboring countries a priority in Iran’s foreign policy, in which Afghanistan and the countries of Central Asia are of special importance.
It can be said that the United States left Afghanistan irresponsibly following the failure of its policies in the last two decades; This time, it intends to create a purposeful chaos in Afghanistan by withdrawing from the developments in Afghanistan, in order not only to reduce its costs, but also to provide the grounds for restraining China, Russia and Iran.