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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
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On Sunday, Trump warned that if Afghanistan doesn’t give the facility back, unspecified “BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!” The US leader had earlier lamented Washington’s loss of the base, noting its proximity to China.
Later that day, Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman of the Taliban-run Afghan government, noted that Kabul has made it clear to the US in all negotiations that the country’s “independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance.”
“It should be recalled that, under the Doha Agreement, the United States pledged that ‘it will not use or threaten force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Afghanistan, nor interfere in its internal affairs,’” he said, urging the US to honor its pledge.
“Rather than repeating past failed approaches, a policy of realism and rationality should be adopted,” Fitrat stressed.
actually though the CSTO won’t give the US necessary military access to attack afghanistan, and pakistan isn’t going to surrender what amounts to a puppet regime so what the US can actually do is limited to terror bombing
Isn’t Pakistan pretty consistently against the IEA? I follow a few afghans on instagram and they have pretty negative views on the Pakistani government, even if Pakistan is one of the few places that hasn’t attempted to put the country under siege.
i interpret recent events as mostly theatre for domestic audiences, the taliban leadership owes pakistan deeply and i don’t think they’ve meaningfully soured, or IEA would be facing a hell of a lot more pressure