The long-term goal of the Taliban project is to create a crisis in Central Asia due to water shortages.
Author: Fayyaz Bahraman Najimi, regional and international affairs analyst, member of the Sangar Advisory Board
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West has not only used its soft power to dominate the world, overthrowing the former Yugoslavia to the regime of Saddam Hussein, but also used a variety of sophisticated solutions, from social engineering to hybrid and cognitive warfare, and now artificial intelligence as a tool to maintain control not only over the entire world but also over its citizens.
In the field of social engineering, it is enough to mention gender reassignment or the creation of viruses according to the theory of the "Fourth Revolution" of Klaus Schwab and the anti-human theory of Malthus.
But the West's "cognitive warfare" is the most destructive tool, crawling on people's brains and quietly causing real wars.
This method is based on the "frog in boiling water" theory, according to which people do not understand what is happening at first, but suddenly find themselves in the middle of it.
The fact that the Taliban is a new Afghan project from among the Afghan or Pashtun states after 1880, which were created with the support of foreign forces, is a topic that I and others have talked about a lot. But if the Taliban's project is to destroy the identity of the Persian-speaking and Turkic-speaking peoples in the geography called Afghanistan, then, on the other hand, its long-term goal is to create a deep crisis in Central Asia along the axis of water shortage.
According to various sources, the Taliban received more than half a billion dollars in financial support from the United States for the construction of the Qushteppa Canal. The canal is to the detriment of non-Afghans on the one hand, as it is aimed at changing the ethnic balance of the population in favor of Afghans on both sides of the border, and on the other hand, it is being implemented for the "Greater Afghanistan" project. Its ultimate goal will be to create a water crisis in Central Asia in the next half century, which will lead to instability and destructive wars between ethnic groups that have lived together peacefully for centuries based on Persian culture.
Now the plan is to raise an Afghan or Pashtun rebellion across the "Durand Line" or Pakistan, the other end of which will be the creation of a state of Greater Afghanistan or Pashtunstan. This government not only poses a threat to the survival of Pakistan but will also fan the flames of war in South and Central Asia.
Instability in the region will mean preventing the stability that China, Russia, and Iran are interested in. However, the three countries' foreign policy towards the false geography of Afghanistan has so far been very naive and full of mistakes. At least, this is the conclusion that can be drawn from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement at a recent meeting in Moscow on the Taliban, which was also supported by China and Iran.
The dispersal of Persian speakers, the preoccupation with internal settling of accounts, and the lack of an identity-based program have led to all deals being made with the representative of the Pashtuns (Afghans), the Taliban.
The destruction of Persian speakers in the geography called Afghanistan will be the beginning of the end of the precarious order that exists in Central Asia!
