America's allies are worried after the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, writes Frederick Kempe.
, Vladimir Putin's top national security advisor, in an interview. He added that Ukrainians shouldn't rely on Americans because one day they would abandon it just as they did Afghanistan.
It is unsurprising that Russia and China would make the most out of Afghanistan in their psychological operations and propaganda. More concerning, though, are the doubts among America's staunchest allies. Many of them had been deeply relieved by Biden's election. Now they complain that their countries, some of whom had troops in Afghanistan dependent on U.S. partnership, weren't consulted ahead of Biden's April announcement of troop withdrawal.
"There was a moment of unique solidarity," he said at the Atlantic Council on Friday. "I felt proud of the organization I had the privilege of leading at the time. My sentiment this week is the opposite. I don't feel proud. I feel ashamed, because that solidarity seems to have gone. The principle of we all go in together and we all come out together seems to have been completely lost.
That was true because of Covid and its global economic threat. It was true because of the need to better manage relations with China. Most of all it was true because U.S. allies were eager to turn the page on the Trump administration and restore common cause among leading democracies.
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