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What Afghanistan Should Mean for Europe
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban lays bare Europe’s lack of strategic foresight and dangerous dependence on the United States.
The EU must address its shortcomings or risk losing the ability to defend its values and interests.
- Judy Dempsey
- Carnegie Europe
As soldiers and diplomats from many countries try and evacuate their citizens and Afghan employees from the chaos and danger of Kabul airport, the blame game is in full swing.
The German government, in particular the foreign ministry, has been lambasted for its slow response, its lack of preparedness, and its inability to respond two months ago to requests by its own diplomats based in Afghanistan and its defense ministry to put evacuation plans in place.
That evacuation drive is now underway…