What "secret bombs" are the US and its partners putting under Central Asia?
Author: Farid Ahmad, editor-in-chief of "Sangar"
At one of the crossroads in the city of Kabul, the Taliban set up a globe with the “new” borders of Afghanistan. At the same time, the territory of the country has almost doubled and the borders of other states have been changed. Iran lost Mashhad, Zahedan, and Kerman, but acquired the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and access to Georgia. Pakistan was left without Islamabad and most of Balochistan. Kashmir gained independence but ended up in the Chinese Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan ended up on the territory of Kazakhstan, with which Afghanistan borders. In addition, Qatar disappeared from the map, and Ukraine ended up within the 2013 borders. What is it? Bold but unrealistic fantasies of the Taliban or the goal of specific actions?
But not only the Taliban and their supporters want to see the map of the region at will. If we consider the current events in the world as efforts for a new division of the world, then we will find that the regional and global powers with their plans are very opportunely entering this campaign. The goal of all of them is to take under their influence the territories of the former Soviet Union, especially Central Asia, and destroy the existing political and security system.
Let's remember who else expressed their intention to change the borders of the countries of Central Asia. The Organization of Turkic States is an association that includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. As an observer - Hungary, and more recently also Turkmenistan. At the VIII Congress of the organization, these states adopted a concept called "Vision of the Turkic World-2040". This document should become a "road map" for deepening cooperation in priority areas, including the creation of a military alliance of the Turkic states. This association is considered one of the ideas of pan-Turkism, which through the soft external expansion of the "Turkic world" provides for the creation of the "Great Turan" and the "Army of Turan". At the same time, the geography of the "Great Turan" is quite wide and is even indicated on the map. Last year, the Turkish President was presented with a map of the "Turkic World" by the leader of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party ("Gray Wolves") Devlet Bahceli (photo above).
In addition to the OTS member countries, Tajikistan and almost 20 subjects of the Russian Federation are also indicated as Turkic (Yakutia, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Altai, Khakassia, Tuva, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Astrakhan, Bashkiria, Tatarstan, Dagestan).
Next, we will talk about other projects that even the healthiest mind may not digest ...
"TALIBAN GLOBE"
Plans to remap the region already existed. One of them is the same Islamic Emirate of the Taliban, which they are trying to put on the shoulders of the region for the second time. In addition to the "globe", in the past, some Taliban figures have stated that the borders of the Islamic Emirate are not limited to Afghanistan and will include at least Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, and the Muslim territory of China. Al-Qaeda and ISIL from the very beginning assess this territory as the "Khorasan province of the Islamic Caliphate."
But the "Islamic Emirate" according to the Taliban's globe is a real and more practical plan of the state, the core of which has already been laid. This state, despite the fact that it has not yet been recognized by any country in the world, has an army equipped to the teeth and its own territory. It controls about 20 terrorist organizations and groups similar to the Taliban in their beliefs, even in appearance and weapons, and most importantly, they represent all the countries around Afghanistan and can serve as a vanguard in the advancement of the Taliban outside of Afghanistan. Most importantly, the Taliban receive $40 million weekly from the United States (officially) and regular financial and material assistance from other countries near and far.
At the same time, they have at their disposal all the resources of mines, taxes, customs revenues, and other incomes of the country (a small example, more than 100 planes fly through the airspace of Afghanistan every 24 hours, and each plane brings 60,000 afghanis of income, which is 180 million afghanis ($2 million) per month).
All this profit goes to the state treasury, from where both the Taliban army and terrorist organizations are financed. To clarify the issue, let's give one more figure: at the Sherkhan Bandar border crossing on the Tajik-Afghan border for 15 months, the previous government of Afghanistan received 10 million afghanis (about 115 thousand dollars), but the Taliban have received 360 million (4.1 million dollars) for this period.
For these and other reasons, the "Islamic Emirate" project, launched by the managers of the Afghan war, is more serious and more dangerous than all others. We can say that this is their very successful project. The attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, one of the regional allies of the Afghan Taliban, in Pakistan are a clear sign that the Islamic Emirate is already getting crowded in Afghanistan. On top of all this, the American embassy must return to Kabul, and the most important parts of the project begin. As one of the Latin American politicians said, “the only country that will not undergo a revolution is the United States because there is no American embassy there.”
"TURKISH DRUM"
But what is hidden behind all these strange, at times, mosaic projects, the so-called "Turans", "Khorasans", etc.? It is not very difficult to answer this question. Global and regional powers seem to be under the illusion that the world is on the verge of a new partition and they can put their grandiose plans on the table based on any attractive, consumer-grade idea that comes to mind.
The Organization of Turkic States, created in 2009 under the name of the Turkish Council, never attracted the attention of the late Islam Karimov, the former president of the Republic of Uzbekistan. it seems, he understood that this project would serve the interests of Turkey and its American and European partners, who want to remove the former Soviet Turkic countries (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) not only from Russian control but also push them against Russia and China. Uzbekistan became a member of this organization only in 2018. And Nursultan Nazarbayev was more attracted to EurAsEC because he understood that any union without Russia is fraught with big problems.
The well-informed politicians of the Turkic countries of Central Asia are well aware that Turkey wants to sacrifice them for the sake of its interests and the interests of the West in their confrontation with Russia and China. Ankara's relations with the Turks of Afghanistan have shown that this country has never been interested in the fate of the Turks, hence, it has always sacrificed them for its interests.
These days, it seems that Azerbaijan, based on the fact that it will return Nagorno-Karabakh with the help of Turkey and the United States, and Kyrgyzstan in a state of despair and economic problems, as well as a border conflict with Tajikistan, play the "Turkish drum" very well, and at the same time, on the nerves of their traditional partners and neighbors. Sadir Dzhapparov even attended the Nomad Games in Turkey to please Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the West but did not attend Vladimir Putin's birthday party.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are cautious and do not show a serious desire for a new alliance, especially with Turkey, which has no other opportunities for the implementation of such a large-scale project, except for ambitions and tactical games. At the same time, they understand that, first of all, peaceful coexistence with neighbors is important, since neighbors are not chosen and, according to Central Asian culture, it is completely indecent to involve someone from outside to resolve neighbor disputes.
And the most interesting thing: if the inclusion of Tajikistan in this project is madness, then claims of Russian territories are “suicide” or playing the lion's tail. You can imagine its future.
"PERSIAN SUGAR"
In a series of various projects that are being prepared on the sidelines of the secret services in the West, an alliance based on the idea of Persian-speaking is not ruled out. According to reliable information from Sangar's sources in Europe, the British MI6 has developed a draft of a new state based on this idea in Afghanistan, which in the future should include Iran and Tajikistan too. To this end, a man named Abdulkhak Nasimi, one of the Afghan-Tajik businessmen and politicians, a person close to British intelligence, took up the job. He is going to create the Ariana-Bakhtar Democratic Party, and to this end, today, December 21, a meeting will be held at the Firdavsi Research Center in London, which will end with "dinner and live music."
Some media outlets in the region are also spreading fake news in this vein. The Telegram channel “Center for the Study of Tajikistan”, apparently associated with Iranian intelligence, reported that “the Americans were able to attract the government of Tajikistan to themselves by presenting a project to create a Greater Tajikistan. This project, based on the idea of Western strategists, should be formed by merging the northern regions of Afghanistan with Tajikistan.”
Not surprisingly, British intelligence carefully considered the project of creating a Persian-speaking state between the Pashtun "Islamic Emirate" and the Organization of Turkic States. Iran's intelligence is a master at spreading fake news. In the wake of world events, the introduction of fake information about the Greater Tajikistan project into the public opinion of the region, especially with the participation of the United States, a strategic ally of the Taliban, is unique in its kind. The United States, after 20 years of presence in Afghanistan, surrendered power to the Pashtun Taliban, and not to the anti-Taliban resistance led by the Tajiks, and thus made their choice.
If British intelligence is trying to wake up the Taliban and set the stage for a new war in Afghanistan by putting "Persian sugar" in the mouths of Persian speakers, then the American "Greater Tajikistan" should set Russia, China, and the Taliban against Tajikistan, and, in turn, the Taliban against the USA. How clever! Nothing to say!
The same telegram channel “Tajik Studies Center” is so far from regional realities, or intentionally wants to destroy relations between Russia and Tajikistan, that for this it even published an interview, or rather, the imaginations of a Kyrgyz expert who claims that the United States is turning Tajikistan into a new Ukraine. Although Tajikistan is considered the most reliable partner of Russia in Central Asia, it does not ask for some kind of alliance against Russia in some Western project, and most importantly, it is the “southern fortress” of the CIS, on the front line of the fight against terrorism. And like Iran and Kyrgyzstan, it did not send its representative to osculation with the Taliban.
"BLOOD JACKPOT"
In short, Western projects ranging from the "Taliban Emirate" and "Khorasan Province" to "Turan" and the Persian-speaking state in Afghanistan (it is not surprising that other cool projects will appear) are actually like "time bombs" aimed at destroying the political order and system security of Central Asia, Russia and China, areas of activity of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). They are planned, stimulated, and invested in by the US and its Western and Eastern allies. The same situation that prevailed in the region 100 years ago, which eventually led to the current order and map of the region.
How these plans will come to fruition is a matter of time, but the important question is whether some of the excited Central Asian countries will be on the map at that time or not. Some feeling suggests that none of these projects is destined to be realized, and chaos, disorder, destabilization, destruction, a sea of blood, in general, "Afghanization" or the transformation of the entire region into a new Middle East will be a bloody jackpot for the creators of the projects.
On the other hand, the governments of the region, Russia and China will not sit idly by. They must have an antidote for this poison. Moreover, such projects are not new (for example, the American “Greater Central Asia”). Let them draw more.
The main question remains: are such projects needed in Central Asia, whose inhabitants are about to get on their feet after the collapse of the USSR, defended their independence, and embarked on the path of development and prosperity? The answer is unequivocal: no! And most importantly, no one in Central Asia is going to sacrifice himself for the interests of the United States and the West, as in Europe.
