Washington correspondent
The collapse of the Kabul regime has just taken the Americans by surprise in the midst of an operation to evacuate their last personnel from the Afghan capital.
After nineteen years of presence, despite the gigantic sums spent in the longest war in their history, American officials have once again proved incapable of understanding the dynamics at work in this complex country.
In the long list of mistakes made since the start of their intervention, the failure of intelligence remains the most damning.
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However, many voices had warned against the consequences of a unilateral military withdrawal and the political and military weakness of the Afghan government.
But Joe Biden, pursuing the policy of Donald Trump, had chosen to override, decided to end the American presence in Afghanistan.
Since the start of the withdrawal, analysts from many U.S. intelligence agencies had
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