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The decay at the heart of the civil service

8 December 2021

10:50 PM

8 December 2021

10:50 PM

That Britain no longer has the capability to maintain peace in Afghanistan other than as an appendage of the United States has been clear for decades. When President Biden made his decision to hurriedly withdraw from the country, then, Britain never had an option to do anything other than to join a messy evacuation.

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