(ANSA) - LONDON, AUGUST 04 - Afghanistan risks becoming "a failed state", something worse than a failed state in the English sense, after the withdrawal of Western forces following twenty years of military occupation.
General Nick Carter, Chief of Staff of the British Defense, admits this, entrusting the only hopes for peace to the uncertain prospect that the regular forces of Kabul can create at least a "stalemate" in front of the Talibans.
The chaos "is a scenario that can happen," said Carteralla BBC, however insisting on the need for the West to continue to support the Afghan government and for the international community to "not legitimize" radical Muslims or their current leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. , recently received by senior Chinese government officials. There is "the real risk" that the Taliban will obtain "excessive" legitimacy, argued the British general, denouncing "the gap" between what they say at the negotiating tables and what they do on the ground; and pointing his finger at the bank that according to him "China and Russia" would be willing to offer them. (HANDLE).