Russian President Vladimir Putin calls for an end to the “irresponsible policy of imposing someone else’s values from outside” on Afghanistan amid the fall of the Taliban-backed government. west.
Many foreign policy experts have warned opponents such as Russia and China that they are likely to gain influence due to the chaos of the U.S. exit and the rapid rise of the Taliban, with the loss of U.S. access to gathering skills. of information in key areas of the region.
Putin said the world must accept the “political reality” the Taliban control to prevent “the collapse of the Afghan state,” CNN reports.
“We must stop the irresponsible policy of imposing foreign values from the outside, the desire to build democracy from the outside according to the patterns of other people, without taking into account any historical, cultural or religious peculiarities. Completely ignoring the traditions that other peoples live, ”he said.
“We know Afghanistan well, we know how this country is organized and how counterproductive it is to try to impose unusual forms of government and social life on it. These social and political experiments have not yet been successful and only lead to the destruction of the country. “State, to the degradation of its political and social systems.”
He claimed that the Taliban have announced that it would end hostilities and begin establishing “local residents, foreign diplomatic missions.”
Putin’s comments reach the United States, which spent 20 years in the country training the Afghan army and installing a Western-friendly government, so that in a few days it would fall into the hands of a fundamentalist Islamic regime known for harboring terrorists. anti-Westerners.
He added that progress needs to be made to prevent the “penetration of terrorists … masked as refugees” in the surrounding countries.
“In our view, it is now especially important to prevent the penetration of terrorists from all strips into the territory of the states adjacent to Afghanistan, including those disguised as refugees,” he said.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Putin backed the U.S. military to play a role in Central Asian countries during a meeting at the June 16 summit with President Biden ahead of the withdrawal of troops.
Putin’s objection points to efforts to derail the United States’ ability to respond to threats in the region and indicates plans to gain more control in the area.