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European Strategic Autonomy After Afghanistan

The West's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has intensified in Europe a sense of insecurity regarding the future of NATO, and the transatlantic relationship more broadly.

But whether anxiety will spur action remains far from certain.

  • Ana Palacio
  • Project Syndicate

MADRID – There is good reason to be critical of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

If the images of desperate Afghans flocking to Kabul airport were not harrowing enough, the deadly attack on the gathered crowds certainly should have been.

The chaotic and humiliating end to an unpopular war, with its terrible humanitarian consequences, was the upshot of a series of political miscalculations by a…

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