A sort ofThe Kabul Airport is in chaos. In the middle of all this, a German military officer stood for nearly two weeks, fighting chaos and despair. The battle is difficult to win, and time is running out. But as long as it is in Kabul, every life is important. Tens of thousands of people are trying to escape from the Taliban terrorist militia, who fell into the hands of the Afghan capital, unarmed and defenseless. The Taliban defeated the West. NATO suffered the worst defeat in its history, and the United States experienced the second Vietnam War.When the whole world is seeing photos of people desperately grabbing American planes that are taking off for protection, a small group of men and women from Germany has begun to save those who can still be saved in Kabul: the employees and people of the German Embassy The local helper is Armed forces, German police and development aid organizations have worked, some politicians, human rights activists and journalists.
Operation commander: Jens Arlt, general paratrooper. In order to pave the way for as many people as possible, he persisted in Afghanistan. It succeeded-at the last moment. While loading the last batch of military transport vehicles, the suicide bomber’s bomb exploded in front of the airport on Thursday. Operation Kabul is the largest rescue mission in the history of the Bundeswehr. And the most dangerous.
The long-term consequences of the decline of the alliance between the United States and the West
When Alter learned that he and a small group of German paratroopers should actually take off two weeks ago, the 52-year-old officer was fully prepared. As a young commando soldier, he participated in difficult tasks for many years and later led them. During this period, in the late 1990s, he spent several months in the Balkan Peninsula several times. Near Sarajevo and later in Kosovo. Its mission: capture war criminals, protect German contingents from attack, and ensure an unstable peace. Since the Bundeswehr traveled to Afghanistan in 2002, Art was there. The fact that he was rewarded by the United States for his mission in the Hindu Kush shows that sitting at Kunduz’s desk is detrimental to all the secrecy of sensitive operations.
When high school graduate Alter joined the army as a conscript in the spring of 1989, he could not foresee how fundamental changes the world and its army would be.With the end cold war The order separating East and West collapsed. What Art and his people are experiencing at Kabul Airport these days are the long-term consequences of the decline of the world powers, the United States and the Western alliance. In the early 1990s, few people expected this. Many people believe that Western values, freedom, democracy, and capitalism have prevailed; some scientists even believe that this story has ended peacefully.
It is outdated to sign up for the army at this time like Alter did. A few years later, the compulsory military service was suspended, and the Bundeswehr lost the opportunity to make young people interested in the career of soldiers because of their duties. In the navy, air force, and army, many people are still interested in military service, and at the same time they feel a sense of responsibility to society, a love for the motherland, and a calm patriotism. This is as good for the country as the army.
