The foreign manager of the German SPD: “A lesson from Afghanistan: let’s pay attention to the EU army training mission in Mali”

After the debacle in Afghanistan, after the bitter lesson of an army raised and trained by NATO that succumbed to the advance of the Taliban in a few weeks, we must pay close attention to the similar missions of the EU in Mali and NATO in Iraq. The warning comes from the foreign director of the SPD, Nils Schmid. That in this interview with Repubblica specifies that with the countries neighboring Afghanistan it makes no sense to make agreements like the one with Turkey, but that enormous support must be given to the international organizations that protect the refugees there and to the governments themselves to ensure that refugees are sufficiently cared for so that they do not set out for Europe.