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On the front page of the press, the rapid advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the departure of the United States from Bagram air base, near Kabul, kicked off their withdrawal from the country on Friday.
"The Taliban control the strategic district (of Panjwai) in the Kandahar region", announces
Al Quds Al Araby
, who specifies that the advance of the Taliban on the whole country has caused hundreds of Afghan soldiers to flee to Tajikistan , in northern Afghanistan. A safe man who now poses the threat of "a return 20 years back" for the Afghans, according to the pan-Arab daily in London. "With the advance of the Taliban and the departure of American troops, President Ashraf Ghani and his supporters are increasingly isolated, and Kabul, the capital, plunges into a state of shock":
The New York Times
reports that government forces sometimes even surrender without a fight, often because they "are running out of ammunition, and the government is no longer sending equipment or reinforcements." "A tactical mismanagement of the Afghan military and police forces", which the American daily presents as "a repetition, on a smaller scale, of the battles fought and lost against insurgent groups, for 40 years".
The American withdrawal from Afghanistan and this advance of the Taliban provoked a wave of criticism towards the United States. "Vietnam's military lesson was that the United States was unable to conduct a counterinsurgency thousands of miles from home against an enemy ideologically rooted in a community that ultimately viewed American troops as occupiers." And "this lesson, first learned, was then forgotten in the excitement that followed the attacks of September 11", writes the British daily
The Guardian,
by warning that "more death and suffering is inevitable" and that "Joe Biden and the United States cannot escape some responsibility, even if they are no longer there". The dark future of Afghanistan is also to do with a drawing by Ahmjed Rassmi for
Asharq Al Awsat
, which shows the United States leaving the country, wounded, arm in sling, and the specter of war. civilian, preparing to enter.
Much criticism, also, this morning, on the record of Jeff Bezos at the head of Amazon, of which he is leaving the management today. The French daily
Liberation
presents the businessman as an "ace in tax optimization" and as "the embodiment of predatory capitalism". An image that the founder of the American group would endeavor to correct, from now on, posing as a philanthropist anxious to fight against climate change and an adventurer passionate about the conquest of space. The newspaper denounces, him, "an infantile race to become the first tourist of the space" and estimates "that the most effective way to reduce the global carbon footprint (would be) to leave Jeff Bezos in orbit in his blue rocket, far from the monster thathe created and the planet he helped so much to decimate ".
In France, she manages to make her mark more than ever. Marine Le Pen was reelected this weekend at the head of the National Rally. In the aftermath of the electoral defeat which saw the RN lose a third of its regional advisers and half of its cantons, the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen "seemed to want to close this calamitous sequence as quickly as possible to launch into the battle presidential ", according to
Médiapart
, who reports that the boss of the RN, reelected at 98.5%, explained to her disoriented troops that it was above all necessary to stay the course and pursue the party's strategy of "normalization", as opposed to certain internal critics, who l 'accuse of having "weakened the line of the (RN) by seeking at all costs to please the right". Seen from Belgium, the strategic questions of the National Gathering are however perceived as secondary.
The evening
warns critics of the RN, who hope to see it "disappear", because "not only the extreme right corresponds to a tradition anchored (in the French political life) but its evolution towards an undercover populism continues to speak to an electorate who feels relegated ". The Belgian newspaper warns that "it is neither by surfing on its themes as part of the right might be tempted to do, nor by rejoicing in the doubtless temporary abstention of its voters, that we will stop the blade background of the RN ", but" only by bringing real remedies to the causes which nourish it ".
Before telling you tomorrow, I suggest you take a look at the
Guardian
, which reports that the explorer of the deep sea Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the wrecks of the Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, announces that it has developed a technology that will allow autonomous vehicles to "revolutionize" underwater research.
According to an estimate by Unesco, up to more than three million wrecks scattered at the bottom of the oceans could thus be discovered thanks to this technology.
Enough to wake up the dreams of the pirate who sleeps in all of us.
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