The so-called Western "experts" on Islam make many "mistakes" when mixing different groups that are even at odds.
The core of the problem for western experts is that they have to keep up and keep track of all the flip flops of the west... all through the 1990s you were a good guy if you were on the side of the terrorists... sorry anti government taleban... the west didn't care who was in power as long as they were not friendly with Russia...
Then over night that changed and if you didn't shift sides fast enough you were with the terrorists despite days before they were likely helping them too in minor ways.
It was amusing in Iraq... they started jumping up and down about Al quada when Al quada was the main enemy and tried to say we need to invade Iraq because Saddam is in bed with Al Quada... of course that was a whole lot of bullshit... Saddam did more to defeat Al Quada in Iraq than the US ever did...
Right now they are probably shifting the Taliban into the category... we can use, and ISIS to... enemy number one... but that is always negotiable regarding what they think they can do.
The Israelis almost sank a US spy ship but avoided the bad guys books by sharing lots of intel on Soviet air defence systems that they had collected over the years.
U.K.’s Johnson Criticizes Pullout’s Timing: Afghanistan Update
Bloomberg News
Who cares what that dickhead has to say... he is a moron and can say the most offensive and dumb things when his lips are not under proper control... which is any time he is using them.
Taliban destroy statue of foe, stoking fear over their rule
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulating on Wednesday, sowing further doubt about their claims to have become more moderate.
And they were worried that western values would not stick... only in power for a few weeks and they are blowing up old statues... good on them for making such amazing progress....
Taliban house-to-house searches ongoing, we’ve been told about a dozen ISIS K suspects have been rounded up
With 13 American soldiers dead from that cowardly attack I can't see any western media outlet complaining that these people have rights and searches in peoples houses in the middle of the night are just unacceptable... whoops... wonder if they are going to water board them or send them to Guantanimo...
"NATO intel picked up by a UN report attributes a maximum of 2,200 jihadis to ISIS-K, split into small cells. Significantly, the absolute majority are non-Afghans: Iraqis, Saudis, Kuwaitis, Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Chechens and Uighurs."
And that is the amusing thing... lots of hard core US allies in that list... of course the Chechens will be diluted to be Russians... THE RUSSIANS DID THIS THE RUSSIANS DID THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The big question now is how will SCO(more specifically Russia and China) respond to this?
Russia is already fighting ISIS in Syria... despite US and HATO attempts to shield them... Russia does not need to do anything... they can hand over details they have of the Chechens involved, but it is not their problem.
Perhaps if the west had accepted offers of partnership they could do more but they are under heavy US sanction... so why bother doing more.
They are helping Syrians but why help Americans and British when they spit on Russia every chance they get.
If Russia was to use satellite images, AEW&C Airplanes and drone strikes on the ISIS terrorists, would this help the situation?
Sounds like they are broken up in small cells... it would take a bit to destroy them all... and the west is leaving and the Taliban are still largely an unknown.... it really is not in Russian interests to do too much... yet.
If they get requests for assistance and orders for helicopters and equipment and weapons... obviously peace and stability in the region is important... as is destroying the poppy trade...
Satellite images, AEW&C Airplanes and drones are useless against such groups.
Drones and electronics aircraft are critical for locating these small cells and would be excellent but it would be slow work that gets harder over time as they realise you are picking them off one cell at a time and how you are probably doing it...
Getting the cooperation of the locals would be critical of course, but not many Afghans have satellite phones and the ones that do have money and outside connections... a good hint that they are ISIS or Pakisani IS.
Why is China totally useless in Afghanistan?
No real experience at the job so to speak probably...
They even condamned the bombing at the airport.
Why wouldn't they... they lost more people than the west did.... despite the level of squealing suggesting the opposite.
The Taliban have been to Moscow and other locations for talks with the foreign invaders... Russia has shown that it is not in Syria to steal their silverware or tell Assad what to do... I rather suspect the Taliban... and a lot more groups and countries in the region respect that.
You need people on the ground with a huge intel network. Only talibans can do it.
Drones and intelligence aircraft like Il-20s are very useful at intercepting and locating communications... probably not a lot of cell towers in Afghanistan... mostly sat phones...
Yes, Wagner type operatives that now seem to be all over the place.
Under every bed... saw it on CNN and the BBC so it must be true cause they show all sides of every story...
I would think its far too early for official Russian military to be in Afghanistan. But you never know. A Russian unit into Bagram airbase? Stranger things have happened.
It is a war zone.... they will already be there.
This might be a good experience for them, they don't need to send in big military groups, just small ones. I thought they would do that in Syria.
China should have done that... all the flash toys mean nothing if you don't know how to use them. The Chinese government is very much non interventionist, but the US is going to take that as a weakness and start infringing on their interests soon enough... this is a chance to do some good, though in Afghanistan they wont have Iranian and Russian forces to observe and work with, which will make the lessons harder.
If SCO support Taliban government and they control whole Afghanistan border, than Panjshir rebelion and ISIS terorist activities will be very short living without foreign support.
Exactly... a group of young men can't survive long in the mountains without food and supplies and weapons and support, and if they steal from the locals then the locals are going to take every opportunity to shop them.
If Afghanistans neighbours can work together and close its external borders and keep the taliban and afghan people supplied with food and materials of course but starve the insurgents then the insurgents have little chance.
“I have been fighting for 17 years,” said Scheller, then commander of the advanced infantry training battalion. “I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: ‘I demand accountability.’”
Is he mad... you can't have a government department that is accountable for its actions... that leads to madness... or justice... or more sensible use of that government resource in the future... If I owned Facebook I would give that man a high paying job.
He would not comment further until he had left the Marine Corps, he said, adding: “My chain of command is doing exactly what I would do … if I were in their shoes.”
They are doing what I would do? That man has been spoken to by someone at a rather high level... whose job is probably not at risk with any of this...
They are doing what he accused them of doing... cut off the offending limb and brush the blood and body parts under the carpet before they start to smell.
And some of his former supporters now think that even Trump might have made a better fist of America's catastrophic departure from Afghanistan.
Trump wanted Americans out... he probably would not have cared so much for the Afghans that helped the US over these last two decades, so there would have been people at the Airport, but most would likely have been left behind without a second thought.
It would not have been clean and shiny, but it would have gotten done when the air power could still support the exit... when you pull your air power out first it is an invitation to the enemy to have a go...
This suggests Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, has access to America’s biometric database. If Al Isha can identify Indian intelligence sources in Afghanistan, the Pakistanis will pursue them as well.
Part of the spoils of war.
A better question of course is why the US was so hard core collecting everyones biometric data in that country... they collected it from everyone whether they were suspected of something or not.
I seem to remember an RT article about this where biometric data was used to convict someone and then it was found the information was wrong... not as wonderful as it seems it seems...
And he is in the right.
Biden literally sacrificed them to try so score some political points for himself back home.
I will say it again, when you withdraw your air power first then you are not going about it the right way.... even a civilian like me understands that.
Sadly, i seen how these kind of things play out.
he gets stripped of benefits and rank and thrown to the trash.
he deserves better of course.
The way he says he would do what is happening to him to himself in their position... sounds like he had a word to someone very very high up the food chain...
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