The United States admitted that they should have withdrawn their troops from Afghanistan earlier, and this should have been done by the Donald Trump administration. This is stated in a recently released document from the National Security Council, which outlines key points, according to Axios..

The chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 became the main problem of the presidency of Joe Biden and drew criticism from both parties, the newspaper writes.. She also becomes a target for congressional investigations led by the Republican Party..

“There was no indication that more time, more or more Americans at risk in Afghanistan would give a fundamentally different trajectory,” the summary in defense of Biden’s decisions says..

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The United States made this conclusion and changed the evacuation protocol during global conflicts.

“We are now giving priority to earlier evacuations when faced with a deteriorating security situation.. We did this both in Ethiopia and in Ukraine,” the message says..

In particular, the Biden administration sounded the alarm ahead of time over the deteriorating security situation in Ethiopia in November 2021, warning that there would be no air travel.. A similar approach was taken before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when embassies were evacuated.

However, the National Security Council acknowledges that the US failed to properly consider the psychological factors within the Afghan army that would signal increased risks and force the evacuation process to begin sooner..

" “And no agency imagined that the more than 300,000 trained and equipped Afghan National Defense Forces would not be able to fight for their country, especially after 20 years of American support.”.

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The National Security Council also places much of the blame for the chaotic exit on former President Trump, noting that Biden's choice was " The summary also criticizes Trump's talks with the Taliban that led to the Doha Accord, officially beginning the process of ending America's longest war..

He also blames the Trump administration for not providing " The administration has also been accused of disrupting the US refugee aid network and allowing more than 18 Afghans to apply for a special immigration visa backlog..

“Our experience in Afghanistan directly influenced the Administration’s decision to create a small group of experts (“Tiger Team”) to plan a worst-case scenario for Ukraine, including simulation exercises, in the months before the Russian invasion,” the summary reads..

– In a destabilizing security environment, we now err on the side of aggressive risk communication. We did this in anticipation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

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Recall that back in 2021, US military assistance to Ukraine was 12 times less than the money allocated to Afghanistan - $ 3.3 billion. But with the start of a full-scale invasion, the United States began to allocate tens of billions of dollars in benefits to Ukraine.