The US military recognizes the lower credibility of the US towards allies

The highest military officials of the United States, the Commander of the General Staff and the Commander of the Central Command, in charge of operations in Afghanistan, appeared in front of the Senate following the call to respond to the chaotic end of the conflict in the Afghan country, which has brought the Taliban back to power, against which the US military had been fighting since 2001. This confrontation between military leaders and US legislators highlighted the total lack of agreement between the military itself and the executive power, a disagreement that applies to both Trump , which for Biden, increasingly exposing the Democratic president to a dangerous similarity with his predecessor, from whom he had distanced himself so much during the election campaign. The discord between the military and the White House highlights Biden’s responsibility in the bad relations he has caused with his European Union allies, who seem not to follow the advice of their military leaders. The decisions of the American president, who has always taken responsibility for his own decisions, did not take into due consideration the advice of the military, opting for the wrong analyzes of US intelligence. The Chief of Staff appeared to regret the loss of credibility of the United States by its European allies, expressly defining an unacceptable exit from the Afghan war as a damage. This observation, which comes at a time of difficulty within the Atlantic Alliance, fuels the distrust of Europeans in particular and France in particular, due to the change in American foreign policy towards a centrality shifted from Europe to the Asian scenario. Even the Secretary of Defense, who did not agree with the assessments of the Chief of Staff, had to admit that American credibility could be questioned, despite the personal conviction of maintaining a high reliability value. But the greatest damage to the prestige of the president came from the commander of the Central Command, who confirmed that the intention of the American military leaders was to maintain a contingent of 2,500, an option rejected by Biden, but which had been agreed with Trump; however, both of the last two presidents did not want to consider an exit not based on dates, but on compliance conditions, as suggested by the military. The wrong decision was also due to a wrong information from US intelligence, which believed the Afghan regular army was able to counter the Taliban offensive without American help, but it must be specified that the training of the Afghan military was assigned to the American army, which despite the several billion dollars invested has not been able to bring the armed forces of Kabul to adequate preparation. Despite the negative judgments on the modalities of the withdrawal, the Chief of Staff acknowledged that a stay by the American military would have meant a clash on the ground with the Taliban and also subjected to the potential threats of the Islamic State formations present on Afghan territory. The conclusions of the US senators were, that the Afghan failure was due to unfortunate agreements made by Trump with the Taliban (democratic view), added to the disastrous management of Biden (republican view), the final result of which was the 2,500 American deaths. and the $ 2.3 trillion waste, which represents a strategic US failure of epochal scale. Beyond this analysis it must also be added that the Afghan country will return to a territory where Islamic terrorist formations can reorganize without any conflict, a sort of base from which to organize attacks on Western countries, train terrorists and try to propose more ambitious models, such as that of the Islamic state. Biden’s decision, if in some ways it can be understood within the framework of domestic political reasons, reduces the perception of the US as a great power capable of protecting itself and the West from a threat that is becoming increasingly threatening and, that if should it occur, it can only be attributed to the poor management of Biden himself, who will be persecuted for this reason also in the history books.