The rapid attack of the militants of the Radical Movement “Taliban” (prohibited in Russia) in Afghanistan and the seizure of the capital of the country of Kabul last weekend found the President of the United States Joe Bayden on vacation. This is on Tuesday, August 17, writes The Washington Post.
As the publication notes, in the middle of the day on Friday, August 13, Biden, together with his wife and a small group of personnel, went to the Camp David country residence in Maryland. It was assumed that there the American leader would hold his vacation long scheduled for August. However, as a result, due to a sharply aggravated situation in Afghanistan, the president had to change his plans.
So, on Saturday, August 14, judging by the White House, Biden held a meeting with Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and his team of national security professionals on the conclusion of an American contingent from Afghanistan. On Sunday, August 15, at the suggestion of the leader of the democratic majority in the US Congress Senate, Chuck Sumer also held a telephone briefing with the participation of legislators and senior officials of the Bayden administration, including the Minister of Defense of Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
According to The Washington Post, it was planned that there would be no public events in the Bayden chart in the near future, but in the morning on Monday, on August 16, the president was forced to return to the White House to make a statement to the citizens of the country about Situations in Afghanistan. Together with him, the spoke secretary of the White House of Jen Psaki, who also had to abandon the weekend with his family.
clarifies that after his speech, the American leader headed again to Camp David. This time, he was accompanied by Steve Ricketty – a long-time assistant and adviser by Bayden, who worked with him still in the Administration of the Former President of Barack Obama.
As the publication writes, the fact that the US President was on vacation while the Taliban took control of the whole territory of Afghanistan, indicates that such developments have become an absolute surprise for the American authorities. According to one of the close allies Biden, who supports regular contacts with the White House and the State Department, the president’s team would never allow him to leave for a country residence, if he had assumed how soon there may be a drop in the former Afghan regime.
August 15 “Taliban” announced the establishment of control throughout Afghanistan. Now the Office of Afghanistan is transferred to the time council, which will give the power of the Taliban. The composition of the new Council included the head of the Supreme Council on Natspirming Abdullah Abdullah and the former President Hamid Karzai. President Ashraf Gani left the country.