Renaud Girard: "Europe will pay for the inconsistency of the United States in Afghanistan"

Twenty years after she started a war against them, America returned Afghanistan to the Taliban.

She would have preferred that there had been a waiting period and that she had not been obliged to relive, in Kabul, the scenes of chaos of the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.

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The more Biden and Blinken speak in the media to try to justify their hasty abandonment of an ally, the more they sink, the more they ridicule themselves, the more they emphasize American shame.

Because history will retain the date of August 15, 2021 and this takeover of Kabul by the Taliban as the first major geopolitical setback of the United States in the 21st century.

As for Pompeo's interventions, the former Secretary of State for Trump, who takes the liberty of criticizing the Administration presents and is indignant that the Taliban have not been forced to respect all the clauses of the agreement that he had negotiated with them in 2020, they are pathetic.

But above all, we feel, among American officials, the will to back down

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