“The defence that they are only picking up the pieces left behind by the Trump Administration is as fake as Biden's show of outrage and determination now sounds. First, Donald Trump had not agreed on an unconditional surrender and retreat. Second, even in the agreement at Doha in February 2020, his administration had refused to accept the Taliban definition of themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the first page of the agreement, this is made clear by the American side.
Today, this broken superpower is sharing the identities and whereabouts of its most valuable and vulnerable assets in Afghanistan in the hope that they will be protected. This is a great superpower's meltdown. Not quite like the Soviet Union in 1989 because it would mean very little within America, except reducing the Biden Administration to the political equivalent of ‘spoilt goods’ so early in his tenure.”
Most importantly:
“……..All US allies, including India, have been jolted. If this is all it takes for it now to cut and run, cursing and blaming an ally under fire, how would a Taiwan, Japan or South Korea count on it against the Chinese? Or even India. What is the Quad worth then if not another fancy, periodic naval parade or spectacle? Whatever Biden might or might not do to the terrorists who bombed Kabul, he's surely turned global strategic thinking inside-out.”
I agree that last paragraph is the most important.
Granted, US Allies have always been aware that, with the US being a Constitutional Republic in which the government and its views can change dramatically in a matter of years, allying with the US and depending on it for consistency in its views is fraught with risk should their own national security depend on help from us.
This has been true for some time. Seeing it in action is another thing, though.