Disbelief and betrayal: Europe reacts to Biden’s Afghanistan ‘miscalculation’‘This does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West,’ says senior German lawmaker.MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG | August 17, 2021 1:23 amBERLIN — Until Sunday, Europe thought Joe Biden was an expert on foreign policy.
Now, the American president’s decision to allow Afghanistan to collapse into the arms of the Taliban has European officials worried he has unwittingly accelerated what his predecessor Donald Trump started: the degradation of the Western alliance and everything it is supposed to stand for in the world.
Across Europe, officials have reacted with a mix of disbelief and a sense of betrayal. Even those who cheered Biden’s election and believed he could ease the recent tensions in the transatlantic relationship said they regarded the withdrawal from Afghanistan as nothing short of a mistake of historic magnitude.
“I say this with a heavy heart and with horror over what is happening, but the early withdrawal was a serious and far-reaching miscalculation by the current administration,” said Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign relations committee. “This does fundamental damage to the political and moral credibility of the West.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-reacts-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal/
For all of you who were optimistic about Biden's foreign policy expertise, I challenge you to come up with a single instance where Biden made the right call.