‘US withdrawal from Afghanistan a mistake’

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the US decision to pull its troops out of Afghanistan was a mistake, which has handed the Taliban a momentum in the country.

Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Wallace said the withdrawal agreement negotiated in Doha, Qatar, by the administration of former US President Donald Trump was a rotten deal, reports Xinhua news agency.

At the time of the Trump deal with, obviously the Taliban, I felt that was a mistake to have done it that way. We will all, in the international community probably pay the consequences of that, Wallace said.

I’ve been pretty blunt about it publicly and that’s quite a rare thing when it comes to US decisions, but strategically it causes a lot of problems and as an international community, it’s very difficult for what we’re seeing today.

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