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«At 6:21 pm on Friday 27th August 2021, NATO’s Afghan adventure formally ended. At that moment, the Italian C130 on which I was on board, the last representative of the Atlantic Alliance to leave the country, crossed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. For the first time in twenty years, Afghanistan was without a NATO presence. We left the country and we left it badly, in the hands of the same Taliban we had thrown out of power in a few weeks twenty years earlier.»
In “L’ultimo Aereo da Kabul” (The last plane from Kabul), Stefano Pontecorvo talks about the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, starting from the hasty retreat of the NATO troops in August 2021, analyzing the root causes of the military surrender that subsequently brought to the collapse of the Afghan institutions. The author highlights the choices the West should have made in order to avoid the disaster, reviewing the country’s history, starting from the Bonn Conference, which created the modern State of Afghanistan, up to the Doha Agreement, which turned out to be a definitive sentence for the Republic. An essential text for understanding a complex world distant from ours and for analyzing the errors of the West and NATO, starting with the modus operandi of the USA consisting in resolving conflicts with other wars, and the inability of Europe to act as a “Third pacifist pole”, in a world that is increasingly polarized. The analysis of the new world order offered by this text also provides food for thought about the current situation of war in Ukraine.
