Nature abhors a vacuum
Two decades after the American intervention, Afghanistan is back to square one.
The same Taliban that Washington wanted to drive out and chastise after September 11, 2001 are back, stronger than ever.
They now control 85% of the territory.
Under the agreement negotiated by the Trump administration in 2020, the 9,600 military members of the international coalition (including 2,500 GIs) will leave the country on August 31.
Assessment of the American odyssey?
150,000 dead and $ 2 trillion gone up in smoke.
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Another result: post-US Afghanistan has become a narco-state, the world's largest producer of heroin.
Normal: in power, the Taliban had banned the cultivation of poppies.
Their pro-American successors did not have these scruples!
Nature abhors a vacuum, Turkey volunteered (in return for financial compensation) to secure Kabul airport - an exfiltration point for diplomats and aid workers in the event of a (probable) Taliban victory.
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