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Afghanistan: Westerners seek to establish a balance of power

2021-09-08T19:11:58.199Z


In the absence of diversity in the transitional Taliban government, Westerners have only two levers of influence before them, humanitarian aid and financial aid.


After the chaos of the American withdrawal, the time for choices has come.

What to do with the Taliban?

The issue is at the heart of the growing diplomatic contacts between the allies in an attempt, under the leadership of Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to coordinate policies and efforts.

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Should we ignore the Taliban, cut off all relations with a violent, repressive and medieval regime?

Should we isolate the new power and bet on a hypothetical resistance embodied by the son of Commander Massoud and the women demonstrating in Kabul?

This would be risking, warn specialists, a radicalization of the regime, which would serve the interests of Western countries as well as those of the Afghan population.

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Is it then necessary, to regain political influence after the military defeat, to engage quickly with the Taliban, to cut the grass from under the feet of the Russians and the Chinese, who have become the new political moons of the masters of Kabul?

If this temptation ever

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Source: lefigaro

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