The Bundeswehr still wants to end the airlift from Afghanistan today. But what happens after that? Thousands of auxiliary workers are still stuck in the country. Now the question arises politically: Should one negotiate with the Taliban? Do you even have to?
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Again and again the Taliban announce that they want to respect women’s rights and that women are very much allowed to work. But that, says Thomas Rudhof-Seibert in the podcast “important today”, is just the beginning. “Rather, one has to expect that there will be moderate beginnings and then a movement of radicalization and refueling.”
Rudhof-Seibert, who works for the organization medico international, is disappointed about the lack of preparation in the West. For a year it has been clear that Afghanistan will be handed over to the Taliban. He also misses a clear commitment to accepting many other groups: “We will do everything we can to get out Afghan human rights activists, women’s rights activists, artists and journalists who are no longer safe of their lives. Such a declaration would have cost votes here in the election campaign and I believe that was part of the calculation in Berlin.”
The unbelievable comeback of the SPD
The dead live longer. This apparently also applies to the SPD. For months it was lagging around 15 percent in the polls, but recently it has caught up strongly and in the last polls is even ahead of the Union at the top. “The SPD did a lot right last year and ran a closed election campaign”says Tarik Abou-Chadi. In the podcast, the political scientist and SPD expert explains what the current soaring of the Social Democrats has to do with Armin Laschet and why he considers a coalition of the SPD with the Greens and the Left to be unlikely.
Historic session in the Bundestag
Yesterday the members of the German Bundestag came together for a special session. There were enough topics: Corona, the flood victims and of course Afghanistan. On the last topic in particular, the tempers boiled high. In the podcast, Axel Vornbäum, reporter in the capital office of the stern and expert on foreign and security policy, yesterday’s debates. He also talks about the performance of Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz, all of whom were at the lectern, and about a sentence that stuck in his mind.
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