President Joe Biden claims he has not seen foreign allies questioning the United States’ credibility on the world stage.
Biden was asked after remarks on the Afghanistan withdrawal, “What is your message to America’s partners around the world who have criticized not the withdrawal but the conduct of that withdrawal and made them question America’s credibility around the word?”
“I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world,” Biden responded. “The fact of the matter is, I have not seen that. Matter of fact, the exact opposite I’ve gotten, the exact opposite because we’re acting with dispatch, committing to what we said we would do.”
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Biden’s comments come as the Taliban has taken over Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrew its forces.
The Washington Post reports that the decision to withdraw has “triggered a globe-spanning rethink of America’s role in the world, as European allies discuss their need to play a bigger part in security matters and Russia and China consider how to promote their interests in a Taliban-led Afghanistan.”
“In the European Union, which held an emergency session of foreign ministers on Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials offered rare criticism of Washington for risking a flood of refugees to their borders and the return of a platform for terrorism in Central Asia,” the Post added.
Latvia’s defense minister, Artis Pabriks, said in a radio interview, “This kind of troop withdrawal caused chaos.”
“This era is over. Unfortunately, the West, and Europe in particular, are showing they are weaker globally,” Pabriks added.
Meanwhile, Armin Laschet, Germany’s conservative candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the withdrawal was “the greatest debacle that NATO has experienced since its foundation.”
Additionally, in what has been described as an unprecedented move, members of the U.K. parliament offered stinging a rebuke Biden.