Yesterday, former US President Donald Trump launched an attack on President Joe Biden's handling of the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, while former British Prime Minister Tony Blair criticized the Western abandonment of this country, describing it as dangerous.

Trump described the withdrawal as the "biggest humiliation" in foreign policy the United States has faced in its history.

Trump, a Republican, has repeatedly blamed Democratic Biden for the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, even though the US withdrawal, which caused the collapse of Afghan government forces, was based on an agreement signed under Trump.

"Biden's failed withdrawal from Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a president, perhaps ever," Trump told a rally of his supporters near Coleman, Alabama.

"Unfortunately, Biden did not follow the plan that I came up with," he added, expressing his regret for the Americans in Afghanistan and the equipment left with the withdrawal of troops.

"We could have come out with dignity, we should have come out with dignity and instead we came out with the complete opposite of dignity. This is not a withdrawal, this is a complete surrender."

Trump added that the Taliban with whom he negotiated respected him, stressing that the quick takeover of Afghanistan would not have happened if he was still in the presidency.

Taliban leaders are trying to form a new government after their forces took control of all parts of Afghanistan, after the collapse of the government and army backed by the West.

For his part, Biden criticized the Afghan army for refusing to fight, condemned the ousted Afghan government, and announced that he had inherited from Trump a bad withdrawal agreement.

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In turn, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led his country's 2001 military intervention in Afghanistan alongside the United States - yesterday, Saturday - criticized what he called the Western "abandonment" of this country, describing it as dangerous and unnecessary.

"Abandoning Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous and unnecessary, not in their interest or ours," Blair wrote in an article posted on his foundation's website.

In his first public comment since the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban's seizure of power, Blair said, "Following the decision to return Afghanistan to the same group from which the massacre of September 11, 2001 arose, and in a way that appears designed to display our humiliation, the question posed by allies and enemies to Both, is: Has the West lost its strategic will?

The former British prime minister is considered a controversial figure in Britain and abroad, due to his strong support for US-led military action in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Blair noted that the current strategy of the Western allies will harm them in the long run, saying that "the world is now uncertain about the position of the West, because it is very clear that the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in this way was not driven by strategy but by politics."

He considered that this took place "to the applause of all the jihadist groups in the world," noting that Russia, China and Iran are watching and benefiting from the situation.

During the ten years he spent at the head of the British government since 1997, Blair established close relations with former US President George W. Bush, but the decisions of military interventions in the Middle East, which were unpopular, played a major role in the fall of Blair in 2007 and the handover of power to his successor Gordon. Brown.

Blair also called for a strategic rethink of the West's handling of what he called "radical Islam."

"We have learned the dangers of intervening the way we did in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, but non-intervention is also a policy that has consequences," he continued.