Mark Galeotti, Moscow Times: Moscow Watches Kabul’s Fall With Some Satisfaction, Much Concern
The Kremlin will wait now to see whether the Taliban will fare any better than any of the other powers who have thought they could reshape the country.
A month ago — and, as we have seen, a month is a whole cycle between triumphalism and despair — I wrote that Moscow was viewing events in Afghanistan with a ‘mix of satisfaction, exasperation and trepidation.’ The sudden collapse of the Kabul regime has heightened all three emotions.
It is not that it is at all unhappy with the sight of the self-described ‘indispensable nation,’ ‘the last superpower’ and, as the Russians see it, the would-be global hegemon reduced to ignominious flight, helicopters lifting diplomats to Kabul airport in an inevitable echo of the fall of Saigon.
For some, it was simply a geopolitical debacle. The government newspaper Rossiiskaya gazeta framed it as ‘a shameful result for the American ideologues of the fight against terrorism and nation-building.’
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WNU Editor: The people I know in Russia are deeply troubled what they are seeing in Afghanistan right now, and they have no love for the Taliban. The also know too well that with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, it will become a magnet for jihadists worldwide, and a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalists throughout central Asia.
4 comments:
WNU,
Yes and also an increase of opioid traffic as it was 20 years ago.
The dope is coming Russkis
I think I want to launch a Taliban fund.
Low investment and high pay off every couple of years.
Coming from a guy who almost went to meet Najibullah to end that war.
Jim you might be onto something
I think the whole world can learn from the Taliban
1. Resistance is not futile
2. A tyrannical army CAN be brought down by guns alone. Hear that Chinese sympathiser scum Swallowell? You better not threaten Americans again, they might remember the lessons from Afghanistan
3. The population clearly supported the Taliban. So did the military. It's their culture.. after all, they don't come to our country and declare gays and transvestites as against the image of God and kill them, BUT WE went there and imposed OUR culture onto them
And the most important lesson
4. If you want to be free, it takes strong men not accepting tyranny. That's why the left for years now targets strong men and declares them as toxic.. they use easy to manipulate women to put in places of power to then usher in communism and the beta males will go along with it doing their spy latte at Starbucks lol
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