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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

Jay Collins, who was wounded multiple times in combat in Afghanistan, called the disastrous nature of Biden’s withdrawal “heartbreaking.”

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.

The Greek government has begun fortifying its northern land border with Turkey and the Greek coast guard is expected to be on alert to deploy into the eastern Aegean ahead of a possible surge of migrants from Afghanistan.

Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a possible wave of migrants fleeing the country, Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven has vowed there will be no repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

Haunted by a 2015 migration crisis fueled by the Syrian war, European leaders desperately want to avoid another large-scale influx of migrants from Afghanistan.

An Afghani man who has been wanted for years by Danish police in connection with a murder case is now calling on the Danish government to help him escape the Taliban.

Australian citizens trying to reach evacuation transports are apparently being forcibly turned away by Taliban fighters encircling Kabul airport.

Populist Italian senator Matteo Salvini said that while he would consider allowing some refugees to Italy from Afghanistan, he was against opening the gates to thousands of “potential terrorists”.

Britain’s Defence Secretary has defended General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, after he claimed that the Taliban are honourable “country boys” who “want an Afghanistan that is inclusive for all”.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has said that the number of Afghan contractors and interpreters brought over could be double the number predicted, and could be even higher.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has called on the European Union to protect the bloc’s external borders in the wake of the crisis in Afghanistan, as some predict a possible wave of migrants.

Ten Republican governors thus far have asked President Joe Biden’s administration to resettle Afghans in their states as the State Department plans to bring thousands to the U.S. for permanent resettlement.

Joe Biden, once hailed as a “breath of fresh air” by a British political class where even the Conservative Party tracks liberal-left, is facing an unprecedented barrage of criticism in America’s mother country for his botched handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Thirty-five percent of Americans believe the Afghanistan war was worth fighting after 20 years of investment, according to an AP-NORC survey released Thursday.

Spanish populist Vox leader Santiago Abascal has called for Afghan refugees to be “welcomed in Muslim countries” while demanding the Spanish government evacuate citizens.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a veteran of the United States Army who served in the Iraq War, torched the nation’s ruling class for what she calls a “foolish, short-sighted mission to turn Afghanistan into a ‘democracy.'”

Pentagon leaders said the military does not have the capability to help the thousands of Americans stranded outside the Kabul airport.

Erik Prince said Taiwan should procure nuclear weapons as a deterrence against China following the Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.

Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis has declared that there will not be a repeat of the 2015 crisis when migrants used his country as a gateway to Western Europe following the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.  

Labour MP Richard Burgon said the UK should ship reparations to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, echoing demands from Stop the War Coalition.

The British government has committed to accepting 20,000 Afghan refugees, on top of the plan to resettle interpreters, but the Home Office said that officials could end up bringing in “many more”.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that President Joe Biden prioritized “symbolism” security by choosing to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11.

Former Secretary of State and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice says the United States should have stayed in Afghanistan longer than 20 years after former President George W. Bush ordered its invasion by U.S. Armed Forces.

The U.S. sent a notice to Americans trying to escape Afghanistan to go to the Kabul airport, but it could not guarantee their security there.

President Joe Biden has authorized hundreds of millions more in American taxpayer money to resettle Afghans in the United States after evacuating them from Afghanistan. 

A Labour MP has demanded the UK take in tens of thousands of Afghanis after the government signalled that it was planning a separate refugee policy likely modelled on the Syrian scheme that saw over 20,000 Syrians come to the UK.

The far-left Stop the War Coalition has called for the British taxpayer to pay “reparations” to the Taliban to “rebuild Afghanistan”.

French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has criticised the Biden administration after the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, stating it is unable to defend the free world.

The German Chancellor decried the Afghan war as having been “in vain” while President Macron said it must not become a hub of terrorism. 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted President Joe Biden after “finally” addressing the “worst foreign policy disaster in decades” caused by a failed withdrawal from Afghanistan.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed President Joe Biden’s response to the Taliban terrorists talking over Afghanistan as “weak,” showing “he is unfit to serve as President of the United States.”

The United States must not become a “refugee camp” for Afghanistan, J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, says. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is trying to push the same talking points that President Joe Biden’s White House has been using on his failed withdrawal from Afghanistan saying the administration knew it was a possibility that Kabul would fall back into the hands of the Taliban terrorists.

The Biden administration chases “white supremacy” and “white rage” as Americans are in peril in Afghanistan, Kash Patel said.

“Joe Biden did not have an exit strategy,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. “He had a date he wanted to be out by, which was September 11.”