Published 10 August 2021 at 17.08
Abroad. Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, wants to start a new intervention in Afghanistan. However, the proposal does not fall into place, reports RT.
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After a 20-year-long – and apparently pointless – liberal war in Afghanistan, the US and other international forces are withdrawing.
But now voices are being raised in Germany for The troops will be deployed again, to fight the Taliban's advance in the country. . He believes that US President Joe Biden should stop the military withdrawal from the country.
Germany's “own security” and “responsibility for the majority of Afghans” require this, Röttgen states.
However, support for the Christian Democrat's top politician's proposal is cool. Johann Wadephul, deputy group leader for the Christian Democrats, tells the news agency DPA that he sees no political or military starting point for a new intervention. However, he notes that the German forces in Afghanistan have a mandate to remain in the country until next year.
The FDP's defense policy spokeswoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is sharper in her criticism of Norbert Röttgen.
– With his proposal, we would be back where we were in 2002. That's how it all started, says Strack-Zimmermann and emphasizes that it is now instead “time for diplomacy”.