by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning:
From a geopolitical perspective, the U.S. today has never been weaker than since the post-Vietnam era.
Remember the images of U.S. helicopters taking off from its South Vietnamese embassy in 1975, loaded with refugees trying to escape the country?
It was a national humiliation.
So was the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2022. Desperate Afghans, eager to escape Taliban rule, clung to American transports leaving Kabul.