How did the lies of the Taliban defenders crumble in Russia?
Author: Andrey Serenko, Director of the Analytical Center of the Russian Society of Political Scientists
Source: telegram - channel "Andrey Serenko
For several months, various media activists and telegrammers serving the Russian Foreign Ministry and Zamir Kabulov's group have been telling a gullible audience a fairy tale about the alleged connections of the leader of the anti-Taliban resistance Ahmad Massoud with the British crown (MI6, the Foreign Office, and other English villains).
This alleged connection was perhaps the main argument of the "kabulovyans" who justified the logic of the Russian Foreign Ministry on kissing with the Taliban. Say, Massoud and his Resistance Front is a British and American project, so Moscow should open its arms to the Taliban, these adequate men and faithful fighters against the hated West and especially the Anglo-Saxons.
What do we see in the end? First, US Special Representative Tom West told Afghan emigrants in Ankara at the end of May that the US was not going to overthrow the Taliban regime in Kabul (that is, in fact, he spoke in favor of keeping the Taliban in power in Afghanistan). And now British representatives have publicly announced the same thing, noting that they are categorically against armed attempts to overthrow the Taliban. The liberation of several British citizens by the Taliban junta became a symbol of the new entente of London and the Taliban Kabul.
This, of course, is all great.
But now I would like to hear the opinion of the brilliant Russian diplomats and their media servants: what about Ahmad Massoud and the rationale for the Russian-Taliban friendship? On whose side did these most hated Anglo-Saxons and wonderful Taliban brothers end up on? And on whose side is the Russian Foreign Ministry and Mr. Kabulov personally playing, who is peddling his tales about the anti-Western Taliban and the "dangerous British spy" Massoud?
Of course, the language is given to diplomats to lie. But this is hardly an excuse to lie to your own. Unless, of course, the Russian audience for Kabulov and his colleagues is their own.
