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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex, today
ANTI-WAR campaigners called on Western governments today to abandon their flimsy arguments justifying the “war on terror” and welcome refugees fleeing the Taliban.
Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German challenged the British government to help Afghan refugees with reparations, saying that the 20-year intervention in Afghanistan was about “asserting Western imperialism, not championing human rights.”
Ms German said: “Those who argue for continued humanitarian intervention are spreading the illusion that this was ever on offer. It was not. It is therefore right for the troops to leave and for the Afghan people to decide their own future.
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
