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Downside To Securing New Supply Routes


Michael Williams writes in "The Guardian" how NATO plans to negotiate with Afghanistan's neighbors to secure alternative supply routes will mean "the alliance is willing to engage with some of the world's most unsavory regimes."

Because NATO needs access, it will be forced to sacrifice the west's ability to condemn these regime's behavior. It will make it next to impossible to enact any sort of multilateral policies to force the Central Asian republics to clean up their acts.

Read the full article here.

-- Luke Allnutt

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