NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 17, 2021. REUTERS - POOL
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that the military alliance will only leave Afghanistan when security conditions allow, as a deadline for withdrawing troops set out in a peace deal with the Taliban nears.
NATO has just under 10,000 troops in the war-ravaged country helping to train and advise the Afghan security forces.
Most of them are not U.S. forces, but the allies could not continue the NATO operation if American transport, logistics and other support are withdrawn.
President Joe Biden is reviewing his predecessor’s 2020 deal with the Taliban, which includes a May 1 deadline for a final U.S. troop withdrawal.
In Washington, calls are mounting for the U.S. to delay the final exit or renegotiate the deal to allow the presence of a smaller, intelligence-based American force.
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WNU Editor: In the end it is going to be the U.S. that will make the decision if NATO stays in Afghanistan or not .... NATO Waits On U.S. To Review Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan (NPR).
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Jens was drafted. He was a private. He might still remember how to march. There is nothing in his background that makes him a military strategist.
"Stoltenberg's first steps into politics came in his early teens, when he was influenced by his sister Camilla, who at the time was a member of the then Marxist–Leninist group Red Youth. Opposition to the Vietnam War was his triggering motivation. Following heavy bombing raids against the North Vietnamese port city of Hai Phong at the end of the Vietnam War, he participated in protest rallies targeting the United States Embassy in Oslo."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Stoltenberg
Jens's combat experience consists of attacking then US Embassy.
Here is a question. When Obama had his Afghan surge in which he 1/2 assed the generals recommendations, did the Europeans surge their troop commitment to break enemy strength and will?
I would expect Britain did. "Germany?
Germany? German?" - Ben Stein
"Mr. Obama ran for president supportive of the so-called good war in Afghanistan and vowing to send more troops, but he talked about it primarily as a way of attacking Republicans for diverting..." - NYT
The Boy King talked about Afghanistan being the good wear as a point of comparison, so he could bash Republicans. Obama never had any intention of winning in Afghanistan.
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