The Merkel coalition finally this morning....agreed to a precise number (600) of Bundeswehr (Army) members to operate in Kabul. Yeah, it took this long to get some agreement out of the CDU-CSU-SPD coalition.
Done?
Well....NO.
Now, this action has to be put to the full Bundestag. Timing? N-TV says in the past 30 minutes....it probably won't be put to the full Bundestag until early next week.
A long delayed process? Yeah, and the journalists can slam the political process an awful lot, but this is how things have developed over the past thirty-odd years in Germany.
The fact that almost all of the opposition parties might vote this down? I'd suggest that it's a reasonable possibility. But if you have the CDU-CSU-SPD votes....that's a majority.
The fact that the Taliban might shut down the airport entirely by Sunday? Well....yeah, that possibility exists as well.
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