Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan threatens to deteriorate British-American relations to their lowest level in 25 years

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Another senior British diplomat agreed that the crisis had echoes of the 1990s, adding: “At the time we were spitting nails about it because – this is an ongoing crisis – it wasn’t done on the basis of any proper advice. But there was a huge effort by Clinton to make up for it.” .

Then…and now, it was supposed to be very collective, but the way the American system works is so [the president] He works on what he wants to do, looks at the advice he may or may not accept, and then does what he wants to do. Or worse, the allies read about it in the papers.”

Sir Christopher also questioned the surprise of some in government at Biden’s decision to act unilaterally, arguing that “America First has been the driving principle” of successive Democratic and Republican administrations.

“The withdrawal policy was logical,” he said. “But the way it has been implemented, and the fact that we are apparently unable to influence the way it is implemented, I think is very bad for British-American relations.”

Lord Darroch, who was the UK’s highest-ranking man in Washington for most of Trump’s presidency, said: “In terms of UK-US relations, I am confident that the defense, security and intelligence links are as strong as ever.

But on the political level, the relative absence of dialogue between the prime minister and the president, since Biden took office, along with the apparent lack of consultation on withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite us being the second largest contributor to the effort. In Afghanistan, he talks about a relationship that isn’t really very close.”

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