One of the most respected newspapers in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal published an article in which it tries to explain the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan… by espionage
They say the Taliban organized a wide and effective network of its agents across the country, which managed to undermine the government army and administration in Kabul, which led to the defeat of the American planted authorities and the army armed by them, and the US itself was forced to flee in shame.
“Secret Taliban agents,” writes the WSJ, “often clean-shaven, wearing jeans and sporting sunglasses, infiltrated Afghan government ministries, universities, businesses and aid organisations for years. Then, as US troops were completing their withdrawal in August, these fighters emerged from the shadows in Kabul and other major cities in Afghanistan, surprising their neighbours and colleagues. By pulling weapons out of hiding, they helped the Taliban quickly seize control from within.”
“Afghanistan,” echoed the WSJ, the Italian newspaper Giornale, “has always been a crossroads of spies and spies. It was during the ‘big game’ between Russia and Britain in the nineteenth century, it was during the Soviet invasion and civil war and even more so today, after twenty years of war. The war ended with the victory of the Taliban. And it was the Taliban who were able to use the art of espionage wisely strategically to reclaim the country and set the stage for an unrelenting offensive during the summer months that ended with their entry into Kabul on August 15.”
Obviously, the flight of Americans from Afghanistan was such a shock to the US and the whole West that they cannot recover from it to this day, offering more and more conspiracy theories about what happened.
But it is clear that the main thing in this shameful defeat of the US is not omnipresent Taliban “spies” with shaved beards and sunglasses. The Washington Post, for example, had a very different explanation for that defeat.
The power was not in the weapon
“The real blame,” the paper wrote in explaining the American fiasco, “falls entirely on politicians and generals, both American and Afghan. Successive US presidents have made one mistake after another … For 20 years, we have pumped countless billions of dollars into Afghanistan and struck dubious deals with corrupt warlords. In the process, we empowered hardened crooks, forcing the Afghan military to rely solely on our support.”
However, the real reasons for their defeat and the invincibility of the Taliban do not seem to have been understood by the Americans, who have armed their proxies in Kabul to the teeth. And they are simple. The Taliban’s strength is not in their weapons, their strength is in their faith. Sharia law looks wild from a Western point of view. But a peasant living in a mud house in a village and not knowing what the Internet is, that is the mainstay of the Taliban. There are millions of such people in the country, and the movement has always relied on them. These people have lived for centuries in villages in accordance with the customs of their ancestors, they have ploughed the land and know no other life, thanking Allah for a roof over their heads and for the bread they have. They are accustomed to this life and see no point in changing. The strength of the Taliban was not in the “spies”, and not even in the terror, but in the reliance on the indigenous people, on the people who in their masses did not accept the American order and the power of the officials bribed by the USA in Kabul.
After all, only about 13% of Afghans live in Kabul in 2021. Another 12% of Afghans live in other cities. So with the Taliban in power, the remaining three quarters of women will not have to wear the hijab at all. After all, they have never taken it off.
The same goes for Sharia. Girls wearing minis on the streets of Kabul “before the Taliban” are just 2% of the country’s population. Those Kabul “Europeans”, who then desperately clung to the wheels of American planes flying away, were strangers to the great mass of Afghan peasants. Therefore, the American occupation, which tried to impose an alien civilisation on the country by force of arms, could not end otherwise than with the victory of the Taliban.
The Taliban was armed by America
After the overthrow of Najibullah in 1992, Afghanistan experienced a brutal civil war in which drug lords vied for power and committed all manner of atrocities against the Afghan people,” writes University of Ottawa professor Paul Robinson. – When the Taliban emerged offering brutal but incorruptible justice, many Afghans breathed a sigh of relief and gave them their support.
Canadian General Rick Hillier became famous for calling the Taliban “disgusting murderers and scum”. “What he failed to notice was that the Taliban’s enemies were sometimes even worse. When America and its allies invaded Afghanistan, these enemies returned to their homes, this time backed by Western powers, and resumed their criminal activities. Not surprisingly, the locals were not too happy about it,” Robinson noted.
In addition, the Western powers have flooded the country with money. Pour cash into a poor country without proper controls and the consequence is massive corruption. This is exactly what happened in Afghanistan.
Not only did it delegitimise the government, but it resulted in much of the aid going into the hands of the Taliban. As John Sopko, the US official responsible for auditing US spending in Afghanistan, puts it, “The end of the US supply chain in Afghanistan is the Taliban. If you want to know who armed and paid for the Taliban, the answer is: America did it.”
“The West imagined it could win in Afghanistan by investing money and resources. But, as Napoleon observed, ‘the moral relates to the physical as three to one’. Events in Afghanistan confirm that”, – Robinson noted.
What is the threat to Russia
Of course, the coming to power in Afghanistan of the Taliban, which is considered a terrorist organisation, poses a threat to Russia and its southern borders, and some southern republics of the former Soviet Union fear them. But it is not in the way it is commonly thought of. “The Taliban myth does not pose a threat on a global scale, but there are indications that it may work on a regional level or within a particular state,” Kirill Semyonov, an expert with Al-Monitor (Washington), writes on the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs’ website.
He continues: “A far greater threat to the states of Central Asia is not the possibility of a direct invasion by the Taliban or individual, splinter, more radical elements, but the trend set in motion by the Taliban’s successes … The actions of the authorities in some Central Asian states that restrict rights and freedoms, increase repression, and initiate steps to suppress any Islamic organisations that operate from a moderate Islamic perspective, or introduce various restrictive measures relating to the prohibition of terrorism. And this will create a much broader base of its hypothetical supporters – “they will not set global objectives, but will pursue a change of power in a particular country.
The main thing is that the defeat of the U.S. in Afghanistan is, above all, a telling defeat for the globalists and the entire imperial policy of Washington, a failure of attempts to forcefully impose on the world, and in this case, on the people of just one small country, morals, customs and manners that they do not accept.
Of course, Afghanistan will change, but the creator of this change must be its own people.
Andrey Sokolov, Centenar