In view of Ukraine’s hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan, a top Russian security official questioned Washington’s commitment to Ukraine, and predicted on Thursday (August 19) that it would one day abandon its Ukrainian allies in the same sudden manner.
The remarks of Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, may arouse some Western politicians’ concerns that nation-state opponents such as Russia and China will act boldly because of the Western defeat in Afghanistan. Test its determination elsewhere.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Thursday that after the war in Afghanistan, the Western determination is now seen as weak and weak by its main opponents.
Patrushev, a close ally of President Putin, told Izvestia: “…Kiev is humbly serving the interests of its overseas customers and working hard to join NATO.” Moscow’s strong opposition-the leading military alliance.
“But Afghanistan has the status of a major U.S. ally outside NATO. Does this save the pro-U.S. regime in Kabul from being expelled? (No). A similar situation awaits the supporters chosen by the U.S. in Ukraine,” Patrushev Predicted.
The U.S. involvement in Ukraine, including weapons supply and training, is incomparable with its 20-year presence in Afghanistan in terms of finance, military or politics, and confronts the Taliban insurgents who have won a sweeping victory this month.
There is no evidence that Russia is about to launch a new military intervention in Ukraine, but Patrushev’s remarks sparked a long-standing debate in the West about how and whether Washington will respond if Moscow does this.
Patrushev did not mention Russia’s idea of taking action in the future, but he sketched out a hypothetical situation that Ukraine’s extreme right-wing extremists came to power and the country collapsed.
After annexing the Crimea region in 2014 and supporting the uprising in the same year, Russia remains firmly focused on Ukraine. The uprising caused eastern Ukraine to fall into the hands of Russian-backed separatists. Kiev claimed that the war had killed 14,000 people. .
Putin became increasingly frustrated with his Ukrainian President Zelensky, who accused him of presiding over the creation of an “anti-Russia”, which he claimed was an American puppet state, which Kiev denied.
Zelensky will fly to Washington later this month to hold talks with White House President Joe Biden.
Patrushev, who once served as the head of Russia’s domestic FSB security department, said that the Afghan crisis was the result of what he said was the ineffectiveness of the intelligence services of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other NATO countries, as well as the typical false beliefs of the West in the United States. The correctness of its decision.
He accused the United States of “whatever it wants” to abandon its Afghan allies.
