おはようございます。KANOです。
本日はこちらの記事から。
あっという間に終わってしまった感じですが、コロナ前（2020/1ぐらい）最高にきな臭かったですからね。
これ系の記事ストックが増えてきたので少しずつ勉強したい。
triumph
意味 勝利
As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan.
www.zerohedge.com
withdrawal
意味 撤退
By 75-25, Americans believe the withdrawal is going badly.
www.zerohedge.com
consequences
意味 結果
What, then, are the consequences of America’s humiliation?
www.zerohedge.com
pitiful
意味 〈人· 状況などが〉哀れみをさそう, 痛ましい
The United States is being portrayed in the world’s media as “a pitiful, helpless giant,” in former President Richard Nixon’s phrase.
www.zerohedge.com
これはいい、好きな言い回し。こういう政治家の言葉好き…！
Communists
意味 共産主義者
Laos fell to the Communists.
www.zerohedge.com
invaded
意味 侵略
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
www.zerohedge.com
predicted
意味 予測した
Repeatedly, in recent days, what Biden predicted would never happen did happen.
www.zerohedge.com
befuddled
意味 困惑した
Often last week, Biden gave off the image of a befuddled man who did not understand what was going on or know what he was doing.
www.zerohedge.com
debacle
意味 [軍] 大敗北, 退散.
The debacle in Kabul begins Biden’s leadership of that struggle with America’s worst humiliation in living memory.
www.zerohedge.com
