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Former Prime Minister José María Aznar has considered this Monday that the Western world, led by the United States, has suffered a "total defeat" against the Afghan Taliban and has predicted that "this surrender is a mistake that we are going to pay dearly for. expensive and for a long time. "

Aznar has issued this warning in his speech by videoconference at the seminar on "Global Governance and Growth in Freedom", organized, among other institutions, by the Atlantic Institute of Government and Miami Dade College.

For the former chief executive, the withdrawal of the United States, NATO and the western world from Afghanistan has been "a very hard blow to the international liberal order."

"The surrender to the Taliban has been a mistake that we are going to pay dearly and for a long time," he insisted, in addition to predicting that the United States' decision will cause major strategic changes.

In his opinion, it has been an "unconditional" withdrawal, everything has been surrendered, and doing so means that "the defeat is total."

"It is a great victory for the Taliban, builders of a terrorist state, accomplices of terrorism, and it is a great victory for the forces of radical Islamism, for the forces of jihadism," he stressed.

Aznar has said that the decision is "incomprehensible" after having won the war twenty years ago, that there were significant advances in the attempt to build democratic institutions and that steps were taken in the protection and defense of human rights and, especially of women and children.

After assuring that the withdrawal has been "humiliating", he considers it a reflection of the foreign policy of the last three presidents of the United States (Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden) and a symptom of the evolution of the international liberal order.

Aznar defends a strategic reflection to confront "with courage, leadership and moral clarity" the threats posed by "populism, authoritarianisms, the new communism, indigenism in Latin America or radical Islamism", which he predicts that it will strike again if it has chance.

The former president of the Government has regretted that the coronavirus pandemic has further weakened a multilateralism that he considers "was already in low hours" before the covid-19.

Aznar has also taken the opportunity to lament the political evolution in Latin America, since he has said that "you can count on the fingers of your hand" the countries of the region that are betting on strengthening their liberal institutions and that most are at risk serious and in political crisis.

In his speech, he also referred to the economic situation caused by the pandemic and assumed that the withdrawal of stimuli by the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve is increasingly close.

Given this and the levels of deficit and debt in many countries, he has defended to return as soon as possible to reestablish the fiscal rules that existed before the pandemic.

"Maintaining the current levels of spending, deficit and debt in a short time will be unsustainable, and the sooner we return to the pre-pandemic situation, the better for everyone," he warned.

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