Americans look at Ahmad Massoud as a stereotype and associate him directly with Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was never considered a friend of the United States.
Author: Fayaz Bahraman Najimi, analyst, member of the Sangar Advisory Board
The United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan to maintain its influence through low-cost but destructive means.
- The fall of Kabul could not have happened without the knowledge and decision of the Americans.
- Prior to the Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban, US officials in Afghanistan gradually shifted their support for Kabul to work with the Taliban as a safe haven in a "global strategy."
- The proximity to the Taliban was actually a throwback to the 1980s American strategy for a geographic region called Afghanistan that includes regional and international jihadism.
- Two years of warm, non-violent Taliban ties with US and NATO forces marked the beginning of the Taliban's preparation for power and responsibility.
- According to the plan, Taliban prisoners in Bagram, especially among the members of the Haqqani network, were trained as a basis for gaining power and future intelligence operations.
- Thousands of Taliban prisoners prepared for Plan B after being brainwashed to mix and collaborate with Pashtun figures of the second division.
- After the release of the prisoners and the return of the Taliban into the hands of the Americans, in fact, American proteges took control of the Taliban militants under their influence.
- Although they could easily prevent the fall of Kabul, preserving the republic was considered contrary to the "new global strategy".
- In the new strategy, the formation of a government by the Taliban was not the goal, but their cooperation was necessary for the Greater Central Asia project.
- For this purpose, large stocks of weapons were handed over to the Taliban.
- On the one hand, the freezing of US foreign exchange reserves was nothing more than window dressing, and on the other hand, in the absence of money and the collapse of the economic system, poverty, radicalism, and hunger spread among 35 million people in the geography called Afghanistan.
- Unlike the previous period, the Taliban 2.0 did not react sharply to many issues, including the issue of women's protests - although they closed their education and work. They continue to exercise restraint in the face of relative media freedom.
- After the fall, the gradual return of US-affiliated Pashtuns to Kabul is part of a plan the US is implementing through its lobby.
- Finally, Pakistan needs to be included in the global strategy.
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- It is now clear that the withdrawal of the US and NATO from the geography named after Afghanistan was connected not with the concentration of attention in the Far East, but with the return to Europe through Ukraine.
- Russia's relationship with the Taliban is not a mystery, but a sign of two trends in Russian foreign policy, again connected with the events in Ukraine.
- Calculations of the Anglo-Saxon strategists focused on this axis in order to first weaken Russia by drawing it into the war in Ukraine, and prevent the creation of an axis between Russia, Germany, and France.
- The program started with Brexit and led to the weakening of the European Union.
- In order to prevent the creation of a European axis, efforts were made to prevent the victory of the German Democratic Christian Party in the parliamentary elections, since Angela Merkel, as one of the last experienced European politicians with her party, was not interested in creating tension in international relations, especially with Russia.
- Emmanuel Macron has also joined Merkel-led Germany on a number of strategic issues in Europe, including the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
- But the new coalition government of Germany with the two Trans-Atlantic parties of the Greens and the Liberal Democrats in a short time was able to gradually change more than half a century of relations with the East in favor of the West and American interests, and even took decisive militaristic steps.
- A line of so-called democracies, satellites of the United States, was formed.
- Moving out of the geography called Afghanistan, NATO has reactivated a new "old" enmity based on the US global strategy, which is primarily directed against Russia.
- Russia was drawn into the war in Ukraine, and after two decades of disintegration, there was some solidarity within NATO.
- Ukraine has become a battlefield between East and West for the preservation of the old unipolar order, on the one hand, and for the establishment of a new multipolar order, on the other.
Just as Russia made intelligence and tactical mistakes early in the war, the West, led by the United States, made a major strategic mistake. The West was counting on them to start a multifaceted economic war against Russia when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. How they did it with extensive sanctions. But what they didn't know was that Russia was prepared for such a scenario. As a result, the economic crisis quickly engulfed the Western economy, not the Russian one. The countries known as the first economies are now heading towards a structural crisis and a severe recession.
The history of capitalism shows that the resolution of crises was achieved by unleashing wars up to two world wars. At present, nuclear weapons are, to a certain extent, a deterrent. But, apparently, there are quite a few adventurous politicians who are actually dragging the world into the abyss of destruction.
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The West, having failed to defeat Russia with economic blitzkrieg and imposition of sanctions, is now seeking to create new hotbeds of tension for Russia, including the admission of Finland and Sweden to Europe and the expansion of militarism in Poland and the Baltic republics.
In the Middle East, the United States and Britain are working together to destabilize through Islamic radicals and conflict. And in South and Central Asia, they want to turn the geography called Afghanistan into a new hotbed of instability for Russia and China.
All of these efforts are part of the larger strategy against China.
As I mentioned above, the West, rushing to flee from Kabul, realized an alluring and provocative "weakness" scenario.
Building on cognitive and hybrid warfare as part of the Grand Global Strategy, Western analysts sought to link the issue of "exit" with the Trump Doctrine, which argued that the reduction of forces in Afghanistan should lead to an increase in forces and tasks in the Far East against China.
But Biden's doctrine was to go back to Europe since the AUkUs (Australia, UK, USA) pact against China had just been created. The first from the Far East had to be transported to Europe. The first goal was to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO while resurrecting US military monopolies in the run-up to the global economic crisis.
At the same time, Russia needs to be weakened in order it is not to withstand the great challenge of the arms race and become such a strong military ally of China. Both Russia and China were aware of the plan and took precautions.
Of course, it is difficult for everyone to understand the grand American strategy, but in summary, the Americans have a big plan for Afghanistan, which is no longer on the way to the previous situation!
Therefore, she does not support the Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud, because Americans look at Ahmad Massoud as a stereotype and associate him directly with Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was never considered a friend of the United States.
The participants in the deal with the Americans and the British could be corrupt figures of the republican system, who sold themselves for a bag of dollars on the eve of the first fall of the Taliban and continued to sell themselves to the end.
Ankara's gathering to create a "Supreme Council of National Resistance for the Salvation of Afghanistan" is connected both with the US strategy and shows a part of people obedient to the US, ready to cooperate at any moment under the leadership of the Taliban and Pashtuns.
Tom West, the US Special Representative in Afghanistan, has been directly or indirectly linked to the Taliban.
Hugo Shorter, Chargé d'Affaires of the British Embassy in Afghanistan, has been open about his country's support for the Taliban, saying that his country does not support violence for the sake of political change in Afghanistan.
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The rogue Taliban with their Pashtun/Afghan ethnic background are ready to trade with any power that pays better.
