...and now we have a "ready-made" group, far away, to beat up whenever a "crisis" is necessary to redirect the public gaze away from something else the Politicians are pulling.
Exactly! All but a few of those "stranded Americans" were cashing in on generous taxpayer funded United States government contracts, and were helping with the "nation building" ruse.
You can see how successful it was by how long it lasted after Biden announced the pullout.
These "stranded Americans" knew the 31st of August was the day.
The border crisis is now, the lesser crisis. Works every time.