It seems only yesterday that the guys in charge in Islamabad were high-fiving and congratulating themselves on their guile. They had played a double game with the United States in Afghanistan for twenty years and finally won. Joe Biden was slinking away. Afghanistan would be a client state of Pakistan and a useful ally in the contest with India for supremacy in South Asia.
Query whether we are approaching an Archduke Ferdinand moment ... or if we have already had it?