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India And The Taliban – Analysis

The return of the Taliban in an Afghanistan abandoned by both its fleeing President and the US forces infuses a perilous complexity into India’s strategic environment. The US’s chastened retreat, rather than withdrawal, from this embattled land-locked country of over 35 million puts the clock back to the time when …

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The Roots Of US Failure In Afghanistan – OpEd

The rapid collapse of Afghanistan has led to predictable finger-pointing about who is to blame for “losing Afghanistan.” Both President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, laudably wanted to end the quagmire. Both made blunders. Most recently, under Biden, Trump’s deadline for withdrawal was ignored, a Trump-era crisis response …

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Afghanistan: Sharp Regression – Analysis

Though just two weeks have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, fear among masses, as expected, has spread like wildfire across Afghanistan, forcing thousands to run towards the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, to escape a dreaded future. Unsurprisingly, the Kabul Airport and its surroundings have …

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Afghanistan: The Plot Thickens – OpEd

When something completely unexpected happens, we ascribe it to providence. But when there are a series of such occurrences revolving around a single event, it’s but natural to suspect that something’s amiss and in absence of any rational explanation, conspiracy and coverup theories abound. The latest such issue that’s caught …

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Mindenki tudta, hogy csúnya lesz

Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok nem adta fel a világrend meghatározására való erős törekvését. A hegemón hatalom szerepét gyakran félreértik és redukálják egyfajta világcsendőri szerepre. Fontos a beavatkozási képesség – az erőprojekció –, de ennek számos módja van azon túl, hogy valahova bevonul a hadsereg. Már a 20. században nagy lépéseket …

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Американцы на прощание убили кого могли

Американцы полностью ушли из Афганистана — их последний оплот, кабульский аэропорт, переходит под контроль “Талибана”*, новой власти страны. Казалось бы, после двадцати лет оккупации все должны быть довольны — афганцы тем, что избавились от оккупантов, а американцы тем, что наконец-то закончили совершенно ненужную им войну. Но Штаты даже уйти не …

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