Managua, Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Thursday expressed his hope that The United States has learned its lesson in Afghanistan, Where, he said, they were defeated as in Vietnam in 1975, and urged them to seek ways of understanding with all countries of the world.
“I hope they learn the lesson of Afghanistan because the truth is that they came out there like in Vietnam,” the president said in a speech on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the Nicaraguan Army, transmitted in obligatory national chain of radio and television.
The Sandinista leader called the Taliban’s victory a “shameful situation for a power like the United States,” and that “the defeat of the Yankee empire in Afghanistan” is “a very strong message” for Washington. to which he suggested looking for ways of dialogue and understanding. “I hope so understand President (American, Joe) Biden“It’s in your hands,” he said.
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“I know it’s not easy because they have internal forces that are warriors, that don’t give up this practice, but that gives it all the authority to President Biden to raise that such actions, policies, interventions, they should not be repeated, that the United States must look for another way to find out how to relate to all the peoples of the world, including the smallest countries, ”he added.
FIND A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING
According to Ortega, “God is speaking for Afghanistan and he is telling us and he is telling them (USA): do not follow this path, stop, you must stop, because this path leads to the holocaust of all humanity, where no one will be saved “, more if he continues in the atomic arms race.
“We pray for peace and for the United States, and also Europe, Act rationally (…). Reality is telling them that this is not the way, that they should learn to respect developing countries, “he added. their withdrawal from that country, in which whether it was done right or not. “What they have done wrong is always to occupy countries to try to impose their domination,” he argued.
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“This is the essence of the weakness of empires when they are launched against peoples, against nations, who have their own culture, their own identity and even want to not only occupy them to enslave, but also want to change them. their culture and their identity, ”and it is where“ they stumble upon the same stone once and a thousand times, ”he continued. Ortega has insisted that the US must stop “invading” peoples.
CALL “TRUMP” TOGETHER
On whether Biden misorganized the withdrawal of American troops, Ortega said: “There was no question of organizing a retreat, they had simply been defeated and they had no choice but to withdraw or shoot them, because they were already coming. advancing this offensive and they knew it and they saw it and they had to hurry “.
“Already the other warrior president (Donald) Trump, Trump’s bully had been forced to look at how to sign agreements to withdraw (American) troops and he was not doing it for the good of the Afghans, he was doing it simply because he his Army General Staff told him that this war is lost and before we leave as we were taken out of Vietnam, we need to retire and what we have all seen has happened, ”he commented.
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According to Ortega, “the big surprise” was that the “Powerful occupation army armed by the Yankees, with 300,000 soldiers”, Did not resist the offensive of the Taliban, who have now been left with their weapons, tanks, vehicles and weapons. Faced with this scenario, Ortega said, the US and the EU must debate how handle the situation with the Taliban in Afghanistan, The triumph, he considered, was an “impressive outcome in the military field” that no one expected.