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Smoke and errors It is not quite the First Afghan War redux, but the victory of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is not far short of it. On 1 January 1842, following an ‘agreement’ between Major-General William Elphinstone,…

The Biden administration missed its chance to undertake a fundamental reevaluation of US Middle East policy in its early honeymoon period. There were urgent domestic priorities, there was a world of repair work to be done on U.S. alliances,…

Il senso ultimo del discorso di Joe Biden del 16 agosto sulla caduta di Kabul è abbastanza chiaro. Ce ne siamo andati perché quella era una missione di contro-terrorismo, non di “nation building”, e gli obiettivi che ci eravamo prefissi…

 E’ sempre vero che le scelte politiche si valutano per le loro conseguenze, non per le loro intenzioni. La decisione americana di ritirare le truppe dall’Afghanistan non fa certo eccezione, e la responsabilità primaria ricade…

In his 2020 campaign, Joe Biden made the point that under his presidency the US would step back into the role of global leadership it had relinquished during Donald Trump’s administration. However, he is taking time – too much, according to…