It seeks to foster partnerships with key institutions By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the United States and in the region to establish itself its NATO allies had assumed the role of the “lion.” This time, seeking as a forum for dialogue between “security from terrorism,” rather than a buffer from Russia, the West decision-makers in South Asia, the funded a state-building project in A. [...] the local road near the Russian embassy in Kabul, but the Kabul municipality is yet to be ordered to start the The Failure of the Afghan Payroll and Pay work. [...] supplied only by air.20 Ultimately, they accepted the When another segment of the Afghan Local Police Taliban’s offer of surrender, receiving 5,000 Afghani transitioned to function as the Afghan Territorial in cash to go toward their salaries.21 A few of them Army (ATA) under the Ministry of Defense in 2019, the observed to the author that “when we took the money inability of the APPS to process t. [...] When the contractors left NATO allies are frustrated with the lack of progress in suddenly in the summer of 2021, they left a massive the war, and want to get out, regardless of the result hole in the security apparatus of the fragile country, of the peace negotiation with the Taliban.”34 Aware of which immediately collapsed. [...] In the eyes numbers of Western voters had already grown tired of of the Taliban and Western adversaries, the opening the “forever war,” adding loss of political support to of a direct channel of communication between the the growing list of costs for Western politicians who United States and the Taliban legitimized the Taliban supported the war in Afghanistan.37 as an entity that could have “posit.
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