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MARJAH, Afghanistan (June 28, 2010) Seabees, Marines, Soldiers and members of the Afghan National Army take a tour of an area surrounding a newly completed Mabey-Johnson Bridge project. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ace Rheaume/Released)
We bring to your attention a part of the briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which concerns the NATO’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. This fragment clearly demonstrates the shift in Russian diplomatic language. Formerly, even criticizing the United States and its allies, the Russian Foreign Ministry chose neutral language whenever possible, trying to soften the edges. The most inconvenient facts were often left “behind the brackets”.
Today, they proclaim sharp statements and critical comments, pointing out all the major mistakes, failures and crimes committed by the Western allies. Perhaps such a change in rhetoric will not help to improve the climate of international relations. However, what is certain is that the audience worldwide will get a more complete and objective vision of what is happening, uncensored, as it is or as it is perceived by critics of the supporters of the new global order.
NATO’s decision to end its mission in Afghanistan
International media space is devoting substantial attention to ending NATO’s mission in Afghanistan. This topic was on the agenda for many years. As you remember, US presidents either withdrew or built up contingents there. We are now witnessing another stage of monitoring what is taking place.
We have noted NATO’s decision to withdraw its contingent from Afghanistan; this decision was announced following a similar statement made by Washington.
As we understand, the 20-year presence of NATO troops is ending in Afghanistan. Launched under the slogan of fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban movement sheltering it, the military campaign evolved into state development efforts in this particular Asian country. Western analysts admit that the Alliance’s Afghan mission can be described as abortive. Although experts and journalists are entitled to their own opinion, we would like other analysts also to make their assessments. It would be important to hear a report about long-term efforts by the relevant contingents at the UN Security Council that had issued the relevant mandate.
According to the most modest estimates, after two decades of confrontation, the Taliban control over 50 percent of the country’s territory and continue armed struggle with the government of Afghanistan. According to UN data, despite Al Qaeda’s diminished potential, this terrorist organisation still has its cells in 11 Afghan provinces. In conditions of NATO’s military presence, Afghanistan accommodates ISIS, a new global terrorist threat that now has around 4,000 militants in the country. They regularly perpetrate terrorist attacks, including those carried out in Kabul.
A deplorable situation has taken shape in the sphere of drug fighting. During NATO’s presence in Afghanistan, the area under opium poppy plantations has expanded more than 20-fold, to reach 163,000 ha in 2019. Afghanistan accounts for over 80 percent of the global opiates market. According to UN data, 24 out of the country’s 34 provinces produce narcotic drugs.
Despite multi-billion injections that exceed US allocations for postwar European economic rehabilitation under the Marshall Plan, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan remains one of the poorest Asian countries, with one of the highest worldwide corruption levels; and at least 33 percent of the country’s economically active population is unemployed.
Billions of dollars, allocated for training the personnel of Afghan law enforcement agencies, have been squandered. Ten years into the infamous campaign, the United States was forced to admit that there is no military solution to the Afghan problems. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or crippled during this period of time. Many of them became victims of indiscriminate NATO attacks that the Alliance cynically describes as collateral damage (this is what they call people!), and tens of thousands more were forced to flee Afghanistan in search of a peaceful life. So far, Afghans comprise one of the largest refugee groups seeking asylum in Europe.
While leaving the country, the United States and other NATO members promised to continue supporting Afghan law enforcement and security agencies. It is a big question whether they will manage to accomplish this because, over a period of the past 20 years, the Alliance has failed to establish combat-ready local law enforcement agencies capable of independently defending the country and maintaining law and order there.
This is all nothing but a smoke and mirror show to hide the fact that it’s American PMCs that are mostly runnng ops in Afghanistan. Privatize to the military industrial complex ain’t that the American way?? There are about 18,000 of them in Iraq. So, Taliban just keep killin’!
Putin’s Zioterrorist business US/NATO/EU partners to keep counting on his leadership to ensure smooth coordination with Russia on globalist issues. And China too.
About the elephant in the room of the 9/11 Zioterrorist self-attacks that justified the Afghanistan invasion, all that are at the top of the globalist pyramid are to remain silent.
Hi Shlomo…
How is the weather in Tel-Aviv…?
schmuckocracy confuses her BLM/LGBT village with civilized peoples
If the US is leaving behind nearly 20,000 Special Forces, contractors, and special operators, then this isn’t a withdrawal.
I’m expecting Joe Biden’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination any day now. An award in Mother Teresa’s name isn’t far behind.
hopefully they are forced out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres_Negev_Nuclear_Research_Center
A not-so-random strike on an Israeli nuclear facility might change the calculus, but I’m probably wrong.
why let them get stuck there….so they can not do shit somewhere else….it will be their grave anyways….hehe
ahahhaahahah
The terrorist Ziocorporate globalists of the US/NATO/EU aren’t about to lose any business, much less laundering drug money and hiding it at treasure islands in the Caribbean.
Putin might rake in some free publicity opening Russian airspace to NATO planes returning to EUkraine and the rest of Europe and start negotiating Nordstream33.
May 1st is the deadline, the Taliban isn’t gonna wait and resume attacks, and Biden is gonna stay, same story from the same playbook
Until you factor in that the U.S could use the Taliban to wreck havoc on Iran.
Taliban dont give a crap about Iran, they are defending their home and the Pushtun people.
Not everybody in the middle east prostitutes themselves to the west like you do!
Don’t get angry over what I said man. It’s actually a possibility. Do you think the Taliban will do nothing if Iran were to support Shiite militias of Afghanistan? Iran did this in the past, and it is very likely to do it again.
Afghanistan’s top officials have warned of a bloody civil war should the U.S withdraw. Shiites will be the leading forces against the Taliban who will seek to root out Shiism in Afghanistan no doubt. Do you think Iran will stand idly and watch while the Taliban uproot any remnant of Shiism in Afghanistan? I don’t think so.
Iran may likely offer covert support and refrain from sending even the Qods forces. Suppose the Taliban retaliates directly against Iran for this? The Saudis may encourage such an action. Taliban would want to deter Iran from fueling the conflict. What better way than to make Iran pay for it?
Like I said in an earlier comment, Iran would be wise not to pick a fight with the Taliban. They can talk to the Taliban and get them to ease up on the Shiites. But I doubt the Taliban will agree because Shiite militias never disarm, and the Taliban will rightly view them as a major threat to a Taliban government in Afghanistan.
I don’t know what will happen, but I’m sure that the Mullahs must be careful not to invade Afghanistan or launch attacks at the Taliban, otherwise the Iranian regime will fall without Israel or America firing a single shot.
Unfortunately that could happen, straight from the CIA playbook
One more announced withdraw. Do people really still believe in the bs?
Answer: No.
They’re not going to leave a CIA cash crop. around 20K contractors and intelligence personnel. Just like the CIA has been verifiably involved with cocaine trafficking from central and south america to the US, the CIA is undoudtedly making hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars on opium coming out of out of Afghanistan. The CIA is a cancer on the world.
Our afghan brothers will exterminate these CIA dogs.
What a coincidence that after NATO had control of the poppy field, north america was FLOODED with cheap opiates and doctors gave em out like candy.
15 years later…look at where we are at now!
You mean from our base in Colombia to the C.I.A. air strip down below Miami and from there thru out the whole U.SA.
They will never leave, they should first consolidate a network of drug traffickers capable of surviving their eventual departure, taliban intransingence will be the decisive factor for the fate of Afghanistan, if the Taliban destroyed the cultivation of Opium the Westerners would find some excuse for Return to mass, for the CIA opium is still a payday.
So what is the meaning of this article? It promises a lot at the beginning but delivers nothing. What is Russia’s official position in Afghanistan? I’ll guess the Russians and Iranians will not be happy with the U.S pulling out. Because the Taliban is an avowed enemy of both nations – especially Iran. The Iranians are welcome to try and contain the Taliban or bring their Shiite forces to Afghanistan to face these Sunni warriors. We’ll see who Allah gives victory.
No need to ‘see’ who God gives victory. “Graveyard. of Empires’ is an axiom of history. Pentagon war whore Condi Rice was proven wrong when she claimed no such axiom existed. Ultimately it was the Taliban who prevailed , not her gangbangers and mercs. America walked into Afghanistan the world’s only hegemon. It leaves as a second rate power, defeated by 7th century barefooted tribesmen. Ditto Russia,Britain. But it is the nature of White racist arrogance that nobody learns. Perhaps Iran will.
Yeah, hopefully, Iran does learn form this and tries to live in peace with the Taliban. The Taliban will strive to control all of Afghanistan I guess.
The U.S, Israel and Saudi Arabia can overthrow the Iranian regime through the Taliban. Here’s how this can happen:
1) America pulls out of Afghanistan, cuts all or much of its financial aid to the Afghan government and wait for the Taliban to take over.
2) A war starts between the Taliban and Shiite forces backed by Iran (Iran already offered the Afghan government these Shiite forces)
3) Things get really hot and some Iranian forces covertly deploy to Afghanistan. The Taliban finds out and starts killing Iranian IRGC and Qod forces in Afghanistan.
4) At this very point, the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. start shipping missiles covertly to Taliban to weaken Iran. Taliban targets critical Iranian nuclear facilities with these missiles. They bomb Iran’s oil fields, power grid, air bases and military bases.
This could well be the endgame of this withdrawal as I suspect. (Hint: Iran warned that any U.S withdrawal without the consideration of the national security of countries bordering Afghanistan is unacceptable)
Biden could lift the sanctions and get Iran to reverse its nuclear progress. This way, they can put the Iranian nukes on hold while preparing the stage for the next round of problems for Iran.
The Saudis and Israelis must be praying that America leaves Afghanistan. Who knows if their pressure is playing a role in this. Saudi Arabia can have their payback for Iran’s support of the Houthis through the Taliban (who seem to enjoy good relations with the Saudis).
If the U.S really pulls out, then what I’m predicting here is almost certain to happen (depending on whether Iran tries to stop the Taliban). Should a war ensue between the Taliban and Shiite forces in Afghanistan (this is almost certain), Iran must be careful not to pick a fight with the Taliban. They can either abandon the Shiite forces or try to negotiate a settlement with the Taliban. Personally, I don’t think the Mullahs will resist the temptation to join such a fight. Imagine how happy the Saudis would be to see Iranian oilfields on fire. Imagine how happy Israel would be to see Iran’s nuclear sites struck by missiles. Imagine how happy the U.S would be sitting from Iraq and watching Iran bleed in Afghanistan.
If Biden and Saudi Arabia successfully ends the war in Yemen (by lifting the blockades and sanctions) the Houthis will have no reason to Attack Saudi Arabia again even if Iran tells them to do so. Both America and Riyadh may promise the Houthis a more devastating Yemen war should they listen to Iran and launch unprovoked attacks on Saudi Arabia. After devastating Iran through Afghanistan and the Taliban, the U.S and Saudi Arabia may turn their attention to the Houthis again (this time they have no foreign sponsor for missiles).
Iran would be making a catastrophic mistake fighting the Taliban when the U.S leaves.
I’m keen to see how this drama unfolds in the coming years.
Hi Shlomo…
Disney called they want you back, ASAP…
another romantic Hollywood comedy from pervertive
There was a glaring false point in the statement, its obvious Afghanistan has independent law enforcement agencies capable of defending the country.
They just aren’t under the control of the Americans or their puppets in Kabul.
It sounds like security for the 20x increase in the opium fields will now be handled by “private contractors”.
at least 18000 American drug dealers “private mercenaries” in Afghanistan—amerikans privatize everything except their consumerism, shallowness, puritanism
They will be picked off and dispatched to hell one by one
They never actually wanted to prevail over Wahhabis Talibans. They’ve used them as pretext to stay there. If they wanted to, they could win this war, and bring peace, but America didn’t wanted that.
A giant waste of money that could have been used somewhere else. But Bank of America and the CIA all need their dope money.
Full MFA briefing including above section:
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4698265