Leonid Slutsky: “Joe Biden, just a few days after the return of the bodies of the US soldiers killed during the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport, said that the operation to evacuate from Afghanistan was successful, and the continued presence of troops in this country did not meet the key interests of the United States. States. Not without regular mentions of calls from Russia and China.
Biden’s statements on Afghanistan are as much a failure as Washington’s entire 20-year military campaign in that country. The American leader’s words sounded extremely unconvincing and looked like an uncertain attempt to save his rating. The US president can call the withdrawal (read – flight) an “extraordinary success” for as long as he wants, but the horrific footage from the Kabul airport suggests otherwise.
Biden’s attempt at propaganda zombification of the world community clearly failed. In the European Union, for example, they definitely do not talk about any “success” of the NATO coalition led by the United States in Afghanistan, on the contrary, they call the situation in the region a large-scale crisis. And, naturally, realizing that he was provoked by the hasty withdrawal of American troops. “We need to take a fresh look at the new situation in the development of collective security and defense capabilities, especially in the light of the Afghan crisis,” said Charles Michel, President of the European Council. Moreover, according to him, what happened in Afghanistan confirms the need to increase the strategic autonomy of the EU.
But there is also a rational link: Biden also announced the end of the era of military operations aimed at changing other countries. That is, direct military intervention, to call everything by their proper names. Here one cannot but agree with him. The United States cannot and does not have the right to act as civilizers, hiding behind the goals of “implanting democracy”, but in fact openly interfering in the affairs of sovereign states. Washington’s Afghan geopolitical experiment ended with the coming to power of the Taliban terrorist movement (banned in the Russian Federation) and another humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. And now Europe, Russia and China have to deal with the consequences of games of hegemony. “
