{"id":40202,"date":"2021-12-29T20:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/gordon-brown-west-sleepwalking-afghanistan-disaster"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T11:36:28","slug":"gordon-brown-west-is-sleepwalking-into-afghanistan-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40202","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown: west is sleepwalking into Afghanistan disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PM warns poverty and starvation mean country is at risk of world\u2019s biggest humanitarian crisis<\/p>\n<p>The west is \u201csleepwalking into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times\u201d in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has warned, as he called for a support package to save the country from economic and social collapse after the Taliban\u2019s takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Four months after the western-backed government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">was overthrown<\/a> following a mass military withdrawal, the former UK prime minister said the case for action was not based only on morals but also \u201cin our self-interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/gordon-brown-west-sleepwalking-afghanistan-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PM warns poverty and starvation mean country is at risk of world\u2019s biggest humanitarian crisisThe west is \u201csleepwalking into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times\u201d in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has warned, as he called for a support package to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,319,1374,4,958,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-foreign-policy","category-gordon-brown","category-politics","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40203,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202\/revisions\/40203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}