On August 17, the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital Kabul for a third day, announcing amnesty for all government officials and urging them to return to work. Since the evening of the 15th, a large number of people have poured into Kabul International Airport, causing serious chaos.
Who are these people who want to evacuate with the US troops?
U.S. President Joe Biden said
Troops were never sent to Afghanistan to build a country
What kind of hypocrisy does this reflect in the United States?
Afghanistan at the crossroads of history
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U.S. military planes take off in the crowd! Airport chaos left at least 10 people dead
On the 16th, after the Taliban entered kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, the situation gradually returned to a stable state, but at the Kabul international airport where the US troops withdrew, the scene was chaotic. Among them, the scene of the US military plane gliding and taking off in the running crowd announced by the media has attracted special attention. According to Afghan media reports, the chaos at Kabul International Airport continued from the evening of the 15th to the 16th, resulting in at least 10 deaths.
It is reported that thousands of people flocked to Kabul International Airport that day to try to leave Afghanistan.
The screen showed an American military plane taxiing through the crowd of people running. However, after the U.S. military plane took off, someone fell from the landing gear of the plane. According to media reports, locals found the remains of three victims near the airport.
US media: The remains were found on the landing gear of a third country on which the US military plane was forced to land
According to the US "Washington Post" and other media reports, the transport aircraft was diverted to a third country near Afghanistan due to landing gear failure. Sadly, the U.S. military plane took off from the Afghan crowd and the remains of the victims were later found on the landing gear of the aircraft.
Russian Foreign Ministry: The fall of Afghans from US military planes is shocking
Regarding the tragic scene that took place at Kabul International Airport, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said the news reported by the Afghan media was shocking. She said on social media: "The Afghans rushed to the plane and asked Washington not for help, but for help, but only silence in response to them." ”
Scenes at Kabul airports crumbled the illusion of American narrative
On the 16th, the website of Russia Today Television published a commentary article by Serbian-American journalist Nebojsha Malić. The article was titled "The U.S. government and media-led American narrative has failed more miserably in Afghanistan than in the military realm — the world now knows what the emperor's new clothes are." When saigon was mentioned in 1975, people always think of scenes where some South Vietnamese managed to squeeze into helicopters. In Kabul in 2021, the most similar scenario is that desperate Afghans try to climb aboard a U.S. military plane and fall to their deaths.
U.S. military takes over air control of Kabul airport Biden warned the Taliban not to interfere with the evacuation of Americans
After RETURNING TO THE WHITE HOUSE FROM CAMP DAVID ON THE 16TH, US PRESIDENT Biden made a speech on the situation in Afghanistan. He reiterated that the U.S. military has completed its counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan and that it is not in the interest of the U.S. side to continue to station troops, and said that the withdrawal agreement reached by the previous U.S. administration with the Afghan Taliban last year gave him no choice. Biden acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated more recently than the US side expected. He said the changes in the situation over the past week proved that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan was the right decision and that U.S. troops would not engage in a civil war that no Afghan would want to fight. Biden warned the Taliban not to try to interfere with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
According to a number of foreign media reports, the US military has taken over air traffic control at Kabul International Airport. The 6,000 U.S. soldiers will be responsible for maintaining order at the airport and its environs, prioritizing the smooth implementation of U.S. and Western evacuations. Major air carriers are changing courses to avoid Afghan airspace.
What is the cause of the chaos at Kabul airport? Expert interpretation
Dong Manyuan, a scholar of international studies, said the following reasons contributed to the chaos at Kabul airport:
The U.S. biden administration sent U.S. combat troops to Kabul airport to cover the evacuation of U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan. As well as the evacuation of diplomats from other NATO countries, they divided people into three, six, nine, and so on, and gave priority to the evacuation of American citizens before considering other personnel, which further aggravated the panic of those waiting for the plane.
The Taliban announced an "amnesty" for Afghan government officials, but none of them included people who had served the U.S. agency, causing panic among them.
People who have served in U.S. institutions have memories of the Taliban's experience in power 20 years ago, and they cannot erase them, and they are half-convinced that the Taliban are now announcing new policies.
"Saigon Moment" reappears in the United States let the historical tragedy repeat itself Expert interpretation
Today's hasty U.S. evacuation is reminiscent of the scene in 1975 when U.S. helicopters rescued diplomats from the embassy in Saigon.
△ Saigon Embassy (left) vs Kabul Embassy (right) comparison photo
△ The U.S. military prevents Vietnamese people (left) from getting on the plane with Afghan people (right) to compare photos
Special Commentator Su Xiaohui: The reappearance of the "Saigon Moment" has become a historical moment of humiliation for the United States to flee from Afghanistan in a hurry. Through the comparison of pictures, whether it is Saigon in 1975 or Kabul in Afghanistan today, the tension, embarrassment, and disregard of the United States are almost the same. What must be admitted to the US government is that after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the situation in Afghanistan took a sharp turn for the worse, making the "decent" withdrawal that the United States had hoped for before become "undignified".
Abandoning allies at critical moments What kind of hypocrisy does the United States expose? Expert interpretation
Dong Manyuan, a scholar of international issues, said that the performance of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has left a deep mark on THE US allies, especially regional allies. At a critical moment, the United States can abandon and betray its allies for its own interests. As U.S. troops gradually withdraw from Kabul airports, the various people who have served the United States in Afghanistan over the past 20 years are in deep panic, and those who were once used by the United States as a sword to promote its values are now on the verge of being abandoned.
How can Afghanistan rebuild its political architecture? The international community is highly concerned
The sudden change in the situation in Afghanistan is of great concern to the international community. On the 16th local time, the United Nations Security Council held an open meeting to urgently consider the Afghan issue. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the international community to unite and provide humanitarian support to the Afghan people.
Russian President Afghanistan Special Representative Zamir Kablov said on the 16th that the Afghan Taliban took over Kabul marking the end of the United States' defeat in Afghanistan. On the same day, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Russia is closely monitoring developments in Afghanistan and has established working contacts with the Afghan Taliban.
In addition, the foreign ministers of EU countries will hold an emergency meeting on the 17th local time.
From 2001, the United States launched the War in Afghanistan to overthrow the then Taliban government, and then launched the Iraq War in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein's government. After so many years, everything the United States has done is a bamboo basket to hit the water, which just verifies the sentence that "the foreign model is rigidly applied to countries with completely different history, culture and national conditions, and it is ultimately difficult to gain a foothold."
Khaled Al-Hoceni, an Afghan-American writer, once described Kabul as "a thousand tragedies per square mile." The land is marked with the imprints of misery, of gunfire and gunfire, of poverty and hunger, of life and death and parting. Today, the war in Afghanistan has lasted for more than 40 years, and stopping the war and achieving peace is not only the unanimous voice of the more than 30 million Afghan people, but also the common expectation of the international community and regional countries.
The situation in Afghanistan proves that foreign models cannot be rigidly interpreted by experts
On the 16th, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a telephone conversation with the US Secretary of State at the invitation, focusing on the situation in Afghanistan and Sino-US relations.
Wang Yi said that facts have once again proved that it is difficult to gain a foothold in countries that have completely different historical and cultural and national conditions by rigidly applying foreign models to countries with completely different historical and cultural conditions. A regime cannot stand without the support of the people, and the use of power and military means to solve problems will only increase the problem.
International Studies Scholar Dong Manyuan: The United States launched the Afghan war in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban government at that time, and then launched the Iraq War in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein's government. After so many years, everything the United States has done is a bamboo basket to hit the water, which just verifies the sentence that "the foreign model is rigidly applied to countries with completely different history, culture and national conditions, and it is ultimately difficult to gain a foothold."
Source: CCTV news client