Despite Afghanistan failure, Dems & Republicans throw even more money at Pentagon

Democrats and Republicans voted yes on the National $25 billion increase in the US military budget despite President Biden’s opposition to the move and Washington's defeat at Afghanistan still fresh in mind. Jennifer Breedon Demaster and former UK MP George Galloway join RT America’s Faran Fronczak to discuss the extent that UK and US military-industrial complex waste trillions of dollars on war instead of putting the money to proper use.

But first, some Afghan resistance fighters in the last stronghold against the Taliban are ready to make peace with the Taliban although negotiations have broken down in recent days and hostilities have broken out. RT's Murad Gazdiev reports from the ground. Plus, Russia and China have moved in to fill in the void left in Afghanistan with the suspension of World Bank aid to Afghanistan. The situation in Afghanistan also dominated discussions at Russia's yearly Eastern Economic Forum. Russian President Putin said democracy can't be imposed violently from the outside but must come organically and that it's a mistake for NATO to try to reshape other countries in its own image and leads to disaster. RT's Yulia Shapovolova reports.