Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP
Simon Tisdall, The Guardian: The Donald and the Kremlin Don: how Trump’s toxic legacy helps Putin
From Afghanistan to North Korea, Joe Biden is running short of time to repair the damage done by his predecessor in the White House
Even by Donald Trump’s chaotic standards, the “comprehensive peace agreement” for Afghanistan signed by the US in Doha in February 2020 was a huge own goal.
The pact posited no binding ceasefire, no power-sharing requirements, and no political roadmap. In return for some mumbo-jumbo about al-Qaida, Trump pledged total, unconditional US and Nato withdrawal within 14 months.
This was not peacemaking. This was capitulation. The Taliban could hardly believe their luck.
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WNU Editor: This is what "Trump derangement syndrome looks like in the UK".
It is amazing to me on how utterly detached from any true sense of reality some people in the West have become even as disaster looms. That it is not President Biden's fault, but the fault of Trump and Putin who are working together to discredit Biden's global leadership and policies.
And while I find this type of analysis paranoid and bizarre, I am willing to bet that this Guardian opinion post written by one of its chief correspondents is shared by many in London and in Washington DC. That the disaster that we are seeing is not the fault at all of our current leaders, but the fault of others.
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