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• NATO’s common defence pact is built of a principle of unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, but it was once again apparent this week that there is only one country whose voice is of any consequence. On Wednesday, President Biden announced that the remaining 3,000 US troops would leave Afghanistan by September 11th despite the fact that no progress has been made in peace talks between NATOs Afghan allies and the Taliban. Germany has previously appealed for NATO not to leave the central Asian state with a power vacuum, one likely to be filled by the reactionary Islamist movement which was removed from power two decades ago. But on Wednesday evening the rest of the NATO states had little choice but to shrug their shoulders and agree to pull their own troops out of the country. While the US only provides around a third of the mission’s manpower, their aerial supplies are indispensable to the other armies. Speaking after the NATO summit, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas did his best impre…