Did the failure in Afghanistan lead to Ukraine? | Ezgi Basaran, Shabbir Lakha, and more
26Ezgri Basaran, Shabbir Lakha, Shabnam Nasimi, and Stefon Dercon discuss the lessons of failure in international relations.
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00:00 Intro
00:53 Ezgri Basaran
04:05 Shabnam Nasimi
07:32 Shabbir Lakha
09:40 Stefon Dercon
Nine months ago Afghanistan dominated the news. Now it is a rare report or column. Yet since US and Western withdrawal the reality of life under the Taliban has become apparent. Girls are excluded from school or forced into child marriage, women from employment. Meanwhile economic collapse threatens millions of deaths as food scarcity turns to widespread famine. And the West, out of ideas, focussed on the crisis in Ukraine and the potential China-Russia new world order has no policy and no answers.
Was the failure in Afghanistan partly responsible for the catastrophe in Ukraine? Do we need a strong America to keep Western humanitarian and democratic ideals alive, or is intervention itself a threat to those ideals? Or is the question redundant and the age of America over?
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Ezgi Basaran is a journalist and author. She was formerly the youngest ever editor of Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey.
Shabbir Lakha is a political activist. He is an officer at Stop the War, a People's Assembly activist and a member of the socialist organisation Counterfire.
Shabnam Nasimi is a British-Afghan social activist and political commentator. She is the Executive Director of Conservative Friends of Afghanistan.
Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at Oxford University, as was formerly Chief Economist of the UK's Department of International Development.
Rana Mitter hosts.
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