What is the mood in Kabul?

After the fall of Herat, much of the north and the Taliban’s occupation of Kabul and Kandahar seen to be only a matter of time, Europe Center senior fellow Ben Judah explores what this means and what this reveals about British and European diplomacy. To find out he spoke to Bruno Maçães the author of most recently Geopolitics for the End Times: From The Pandemic To The Climate Crisis and the former Portuguse Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Is the fall of Kabul the real end of American hegemony? Has it exposed European states weakness and dependency? And what does it expose about the viability of projects of nation building, development and aid so central for twenty years to our foreign policies?

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