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Allies Blasted Biden’s Withdrawal, Biden: ‘I Have Seen No Question Of Our Credibility From Our Allies Around The World’

By • August 20, 2021 4:29 pm

After the United States left Afghanistan in utter chaos,  Biden addressed the country on Friday, “I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.”

Following the end of his national message, Biden answered a few questions from reporters.

“This is the image Americans trapped in Afghanistan and all of our allies across the world are seeing and feeling. They know they can no longer count on America to actually be there for them when it matters,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote to Twitter. 

In answer to a question from Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller, Biden indicated that the United States had won credibility:

Q: What is your message to America’s partners around the world who have criticized, not the withdrawal, but the conduct of the withdrawal, and made them question America’s credibility on the world stage?

Biden: I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world. I have spoken with our NATO allies. We have spoken with NATO allies — the Secretary of State, our National Security Advisor, has been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world, and our allies. As has the general — excuse me, I keep calling him the general, but my Secretary of Defense. The fact of the matter is that I have not seen that. Matter of fact, the exact opposite, I’ve got the exact opposite. We’re acting with dispatch, we’re committing to what we said we would do.

Biden then argued against maintaining an American military presence in Afghanistan.

Several US allies have publicly ridiculed the US departure, citing the Biden administration’s failure to warn or consult them. Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, branded the departure a “catastrophe,” and members of the UK Parliament held Biden “in contempt.”

Many NATO allies were in Afghanistan after the United States invoked Article V of the treaty in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Article V requires all member nations to engage in common defense, with an assault on one considered an attack on all.

Foreign journalists have frequently questioned the White House at press briefings how American allies can continue to rely on US security assurances after the abrupt and chaotic departure from Afghanistan.

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