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FILE PHOTO. Taliban militant in Herat, Afghanistan. \u00a9 Getty Images \/ Majid Saeedi<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
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The West\u2019s insistence that it will not allow Afghanistan to become a hotbed for terrorism is clearly at odds with its chaotic withdrawal from the country as Taliban fighters take charge, Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry has declared.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Tuesday, diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, said that NATO\u2019s words were absurdly different from the actions of members of the US-led military bloc. She cited the faction\u2019s General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, who used a press conference last week to say that\u00a0\u201cwe will not allow terrorists to threaten us again from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This, Zakharova argued, was dramatically at odds with recent admissions from the Pentagon and elsewhere that\u00a0\u201cNATO does not know how much of its weapons and equipment the alliance\u2019s military destroyed when it left Afghanistan.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0On Monday, the Pentagon revealed that its analysts have no idea how much hardware could have fallen into the hands of the Taliban. One US official told Reuters that\u00a0\u201ceverything that hasn\u2019t been destroyed is the Taliban\u2019s now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Stoltenberg described the fall of Kabul to the Taliban as \u201d a tragedy for the people of Afghanistan\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and said that\u00a0\u201cthe situation remains very difficult, and unpredictable.\u201d<\/em>Zakharova said the musings were\u00a0\u201clike a comic monologue from Police Academy,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the popular series of films about incompetent law enforcement officers.\u00a0\u201cNATO is a volatile and destructive military-political bloc,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said.\u00a0\u201cThe alliance has lost its bearings and control, even over itself, while claiming to play a role in international security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n NATO troops, including those of Turkey, the US and UK, have been working to secure the only remaining airport not in the hands of the Taliban to facilitate evacuations of Afghans who aided Western military, NGOs and news organizations. Many are now fleeing for their lives, fearing reprisals.<\/p>\n The Taliban is designated as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia, but officials have opened high-level contacts with the Islamist group as part of efforts to put in place a peace deal and to maintain the security of Russia\u2019s embassy in the Afghan capital.<\/p>\n