A commission in the Bundestag issued a devastating verdict to the incumbent federal governments for the 20-year Afghanistan mission. With the withdrawal of NATO forces and the Taliban coming to power in August 2021, Germany and its international partners "strategically failed," the report says.
The commission, headed by the SPD foreign politician Michael Müller, accuses the responsible politicians in the ministries, military and diplomats of a lack of sense of reality, poor coordination and years of sugarcoating the situation.