Anyone want to guess what comes next? Rhetorical question. Citing Interfax, a Russian news agency, Reuters reported Russia plans to “deploy four Tu-22M3 supersonic strategic bombers in drills near the Afghan border in Uzbekistan.” According to the report, the Russian Ministry of Defence made the announcement on Thursday. The Tu-22M3s, currently located in Saratov, Russia, will be escorted by “MiG-29 fighter jets from the Uzbek air force during the drills.” It’s not clear if these drills were planned before the U.S. pullout or afterward, but Russia’s interest in training on Afghanistan-like terrain signals potential future involvement in the country. The Biden administration’s hasty and poorly planned pullout from Afghanistan left the Afghan National Army without the safety net of the U.S. arsenal — something top leaders surely did not expect to happen so suddenly. This allowed the Taliban to quickly regain a shocking amount of territory. In a sign that Biden officials expect the U.S. embassy in Kabul to be taken over by the Taliban, staff has reportedly been ordered to start destroying sensitive material.