Hayes sent troops to the Pakistani border to escalate the U.S.
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While Carrie was getting her instructions from Charlotte, Saul was banging heads in the White House with White House political advisor John Zabel (Hugh Dancy), who was advising Warner’s successor, President Benjamin Hayes (Sam Trammell), on how to handle the response to Warner’s death. But to do that, she also had to tangle in more ways than one with Yevgeny. But Carrie went to enormous lengths - and Max Piotrowski (Maury Sterling) gave his life - to prove via the flight recorder that the real culprit was a bad turbine blade - the kind of maintenance error that is humiliating for the world’s greatest power. The younger Haqqani was quick to claim falsely credit for the crash that killed Warner and his Afghan counterpart. But that got derailed in part by friction within Haqqani’s clan and the opposition to the cease-fire by a younger generation represented by his son, Jalal Haqqani (Elham Ehsas).
In the final season, Saul, the seasoned deep-stater CIA veteran turned White House National Security Advisor, pushed hard for Warner to pursuing the politically risky strategy of trying to set a cease-fire agreement with Taliban leader Haissam Haqqani (Numan Acar). Season 8 revolved around a complicated effort to bring about a cease fire between the Taliban and other factions in Afghanistan and examined the realpolitik around the prospect of bad actors like the Taliban evolving into more pragmatic political organizations. Gromov also wanted Carrie to serve up the name of Saul’s longtime mole in the Russian government. Yevgeny Gromov (Costa Ronin), the Russian GRU super-agent who tormented Carrie in captivity for seven months during Season 7, delivered his order for Carrie to kill Saul as part of the price he set for Carrie to recover the flight recorder from President Warner’s (Beau Bridges) helicopter - the hard evidence that can prove the crash was a tragic accident, not shot down by a Taliban rocket. “Yevgeny wanted you to have the best for your operation,” Benson creepily assured Carrie.