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On the brink of disaster: how decades of progress in Afghanistan could be wiped out in short order
Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of an almost unimaginable disaster.
The withdrawal of US and allied forces, scheduled by President Joe Biden to be completed by September 11, threatens to precipitate the unravelling of the most pro-Western government in Southwest Asia.
- William Maley
- The Conversation
It also endangers the entire framework of the Afghan state that …