And here's an American helicopter again,"

Liberation

, precipitously evacuating the last diplomats through the roof of the United States Embassy, ​​as on April 29, 1975 (during the fall of Saigon in Vietnam). The photo of the rout is in color this time, but the effect remains striking. Just a month ago, President Joe Biden explained that the Taliban were not like the Viêt-Cong and that the Afghan army could resist their attacks. Costly and flawed analysis. (…) This debacle is also that of a certain Western idea

Liberation, that of a forced democratization of the other.

For Europe which believed in it, it is a bitter disillusion, but also a warning for its own security: the era of American military interventionism is behind us.

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 this retreat with disastrous consequences marks the end of a historical chapter;

one where the Western powers persuaded themselves that they were occupying a country for 'its good'.

Those days are over in Afghanistan, Mali and elsewhere: wherever tearing leaves vulnerable civilians on the tarmac of hope. 

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the fragile regional balance will be called into question, and already is. China, Iran, Pakistan as well as three countries of the 'Russian sphere' share borders with Sunni fundamentalists who are allies for the Pakistanis, enemies for the Iranians and a source of concern for all. 

 nobody wants an open war any more: the Russians have already given, the Iranians are on several fronts and the Chinese prefer to secure their new silk roads.

Hence the intense political negotiations carried out in recent weeks with representatives of the Taliban, who have been assured that none of these countries will interfere in their own affairs if they themselves remain apart from those of the world. that surrounds them.

Each pretending to believe the other and put up with it.

For now,

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Because with the fall of Kabul and Afghanistan, a new geopolitical rift has opened up.

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 Europe will have to take important decisions in the coming weeks to face a new migration crisis. And it will be more a question of big money than of solidarity with the Afghan people. Europe has indeed gotten into the habit,

of giving hundreds of millions of euros to third countries so that they retain potential asylum seekers tempted by a departure for Europe. A policy that responds to a need for security expressed by public opinions convinced that they are facing a migratory tidal wave. Even ...,

Courrier Picard.

Since 2015, 570,000 Afghans have applied for asylum in the European Union, while for their part, Iran and Pakistan are already hosting nearly 5 million Afghans on their soil.