Afghanistan

Right-wingers want to 'save' the former helpers as a matter of national pride, thinking that they were venerating the Germans because of their democracy and their 'selflessness' with which they tried to pacify the helpless and poor country.

Interestingly, they have the left-wingers on their side just for different reasons.'

The Left are jumping at the chance to attract as much Afghans to Germany as possible, giving them the chance to make Germany even more diverse while being able to change their genders and develop a sense of entitlement to various public financial sources.

German Luftwaffe transported 3,600 Afghans to Germany admitting they didn't know who they were


BZ newspaper reported on August 30 that between August 17 and 30 German military planes had 'rescued' 3,600 people from Afghanistan who, so Angela Merkel had indicated, were meant to be local staff working for the Bundeswehr.

However on Thursday (Aug 30), the Federal Ministry of the Interior presented delicate figures to other ministries which showed that among the rescued were hardly any local forces.

Of almost 3,600 Afghans who have been flown out since August 17, only about 100 were local staff, plus about 370 family members. Of these, only 260 people were on the lists that the German Foreign Office meticulously processed at Kabul airport - only a fraction of all those flown out.

That means that more than 10,000 local forces and dependents are still in Afghanistan. Whoever the Afghan nationals that the Bundeswehr flew out to Germany actually were is completely unclear.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told 'BILD am SONNTAG' that three Afghans who had been evacuated had forged documents, and four had even been deported from Germany as criminals before.
'BILD Zeitung' learned: Two of them are rapists.


 
While looking for something else in the book, 'Political Ponerology', I found this description which fits the US well:
The kind of excessive egotism which hampers the development
of human values and leads to misjudgment and terrorizing
of others well deserves the title “king of human faults”
. Difficulties,
disputes, serious problems, and neurotic reactions
sprout up in everyone around such an egotist like mushrooms
after a rainfall. Egotist nations start wasting money and effort
in order to achieve goals derived from their erroneous reasoning
and overly emotional reactions. Their inability to acknowledge
other nations’ values and dissimilarities, derived from
other cultural traditions, leads to conflict and war.


We can differentiate between primary and secondary egotism.
The former comes from a more natural process, namely
the child’s natural egotism and child-rearing errors that tend to
perpetuate this childish egotism. The secondary one occurs
when a personality that has overcome his childish egotism
regresses to this state under stress, which leads to an artificial
attitude characterized by greater aggression and social noxiousness.
Excessive egotism is a constant property of the hysterical
personality7
1, whether their hysteria be primary or secondary.
That is why the increase in a nations’ egotism should
be attributed to the above described hysterical cycle before
anything else.
 
Rogue News gives the recent low down's with the Afghanistan failure with the possible setup of VP- Harris to the original game plane.
Also discussed is possible secession between blue and red states.

Breaking The Matrix: THE True History Of The United States: Danny Sjursen (Major US Army Ret.)
Streamed live on Sep 3, 2021
Today, V sits down with fellow New Yorker Danny Sjursen, Major. US Army Ret He is a decorated vet of the Afghan war, on the frontlines leading men into battle against the Taliban. Currently he is a professor at West Point Military Academy, Director of the Eisenhower Media Network, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, contributing editor to Antiwar.com He work has been featured on: The Nation, HuffPost, The Hill, Salon, Buzzfeed News, Tom Dispatch, Truthdig and many others. Danny also does policy and historical reports for the Future Of Freedom Foundation and Defense Priorities think tank. He makes regular appearances on the Rick Sanchez Show (RT), The Real News Network, Zero Hour with RJ Escow and dozens of podcasts nation wide. Dannys Books and Contact info are as follows: Ghost Rider's Of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians and the Myth of Surge. https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Riders-B... A True History Of The United States: Indigenous Genocide, Radicalized Slavery, Hyper Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08... www.Skepticalvet.com www.Antiwar.com Twitter: @SkepticalVet




Taliban Seize Power in Afghanistan: What’s Next
8/16/2021 6:55AM / Video / WSJ
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, with fighters entering the presidential palace, and gunshots broke out at Kabul’s airport as thousands tried to flee the country. The collapse of the Afghan government creates an uncertain future for civilians and challenges for the U.S. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

#Afghanistan#panjshir Taliban say they have taken anaba. It would be 4 out of 7 districts under their control (to understand what control consists of)
 
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This is the real story of the Afghan biometric databases abandoned to the Taliban

An interesting article on how biometrics initially developed by the DoD were used throughout Afghanistan to collect information on its citizens is now in the hands of the Taliban.

The worry is this database will used as retribution by the Taliban to target Western sympathizers and perhaps it will. Although the real issue (read between the lines) describes the extent and intent behind technology built and funded by Western military interests in order collect key information on people, their communities, and sentiments creating “identity dominance”.

No doubt these technologies parallel the current ID efforts being pushed on the global population such as COVID, passports, domestic terrorist profiling, etc — full spectrum dominance.

Biometrics have played a role in such activity going back to at least 2016, according to local media accounts. In one widely reported incident from that year, insurgents ambushed a bus en route to Kunduz and took 200 passengers hostage, eventually killing 12, including local Afghan National Army soldiers returning to their base after visiting family. Witnesses told local police at the time that the Taliban used some kind of fingerprint scanner to check people’s identities.

It’s unclear what kinds of devices these were, or whether they were the same ones used by American forces to help establish “identity dominance”—the Pentagon’s goal of knowing who people were and what they had done...

The Afghan government—with the support of its international donors—has embraced the possibilities of biometric identification. Biometrics would “help our Afghan partners understand who its citizens are ... help Afghanistan control its borders; and ... allow GIRoA [the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan] to have ‘identity dominance,’” as one American military official put it in a2010 biometrics conference in Kabul…

…With biometric devices, military personnel could capture people’s faces, eyes, and fingerprints—and use that unique, immutable data to connect individuals, like bomb makers, with specific incidents. Raw data tended to go one way—from devices back to a classified DOD database—while actionable information, such as lists of people to “be on the lookout for”, was downloaded back onto the devices…

Afghanistan is not the only country to embrace biometrics. Many countries are concerned about so-called “ghost beneficiaries”—fake identities that are used to illegally collect salaries or other funds. Preventing such fraud is a common justification for biometric systems, says Amba Kak, the director of global policy and programs at the AI Now institute and a legal expert on biometric systems.

For Jacobsen, the author and journalist, it is ironic that the Department of Defense’s obsession with using data to establish identity might actually help the Taliban achieve its own version of identity dominance. “That would be the fear of what the Taliban is doing,” she says.
 
Here’s a look at how the Taliban is taking care of its heroin addicted citizens. Forced detox program for 45 days; harsh but effective it seems.


Also the claims and stats regarding the Afghan heroin trade are pre-Yankee pull out. Can only imagine the field day the people would have should a program come into effect in California…
 
'The ongoing color revolution in Lebanon as a pretext for invading the CIS countries.'

14 Oct, 2021

13 OCT, 2021
 
16 Oct, 2021 05:07 / Updated 1 day ago Opening Snip: Video / Tweets
The US military is offering “condolence payments” to a family in Afghanistan after a badly planned drone strike killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in the country’s capital in August, though did not provide any numbers.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby revealed the offer on Friday, stating that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a “commitment” to the Akhmadi family for compensation following the August 29 drone strike, “including offering ex gratia condolence payments” and State Department assistance in relocating family members to the United States.

The offer was raised during a virtual meeting between Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl and Dr. Steven Kwon, who employed one of the Akhmadis killed in the strike at his US-based aid organization, Nutrition & Education International, long active in Afghanistan.

“Kahl noted that the strike was a tragic mistake and that Mr. Zemari Akhmadi and others who were killed were innocent victims who bore no blame and were not affiliated with ISIS-K or threats to US forces,” Kirby went on.

The Pentagon initially deemed the strike a success, claiming to have killed an Islamic State militant planning attacks on American troops in Kabul, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley even calling it “righteous.” However, thanks in large part to a New York Times investigation that raised serious questions about the military’s narrative about the drone strike, officials were soon forced to admit the operation failed to take a single terrorist off the battlefield and instead massacred an innocent family.

READ MORE: ‘They attacked us & killed our children’: Grieving Afghan fathers demand fair investigation of US drone strike in Kabul (VIDEO)

The misidentified main target of the attack, Zemari Akhmadi, was employed as an aid worker with Nutrition & Education International for years, the Times investigation revealed. He was killed as he pulled into his driveway outside his home, with the Pentagon originally claiming he was seen loading explosives into the vehicle earlier in the day. The Times, however, obtained security footage showing Akhmadi loading jugs of water into his vehicle, suggesting the military may have mistaken them for bombs.



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'The destabilization of Afghanistan is underway.' ('Army for destabilizing Afghanistan.')

1 Nov, 2021

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01 November 2021
 
I post this article, but I heard it aired on several mainstream channels in France. In short, 95% of the Afghani are at risk of poverty and subsequently, many Afghan children are being sold either as child brides or as slaves.
This is truly disgusting, I don't know if the PTB will use the situation to open the flood gates of immigration, send back troops or just create chaos for the sake of it.

 
As predicted.

Heavy Artillery Fired: Taliban & Iran Clash at Border (report)

Check points on the Iranian-Afghan frontier have allegedly come under heavy fire, as tensions escalate between the Islamic Republic's border forces and Taliban fighters. (Regional outlets report)

Unverified video circulating online apparently shows armed combatants and artillery being unleashed. Some reports claim a number of checkpoints have fallen and casualties on both sides.

 

By Saeed Shah | Photographs by Kaveh Rostamkhani for The Wall Street Journal March 13, 2022 8:00 am ET
Openings snip: (Eight min. read)
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan—Following the American exit from Afghanistan, China’s move to claim the country’s vast mineral wealth is centered on a mountain south of Kabul.

The mountain and the barren surrounding valley, in Logar province, a two-hour drive from the capital, contain one of the world’s biggest untapped reserves of copper.

China is negotiating with Taliban authorities to start mining at the site, called Mes Aynak, according to Chinese and Taliban officials. Beijing is also in talks to begin work on oil-and-gas reserves in the north of the country, Amu Darya. Both projects were on hold for years because of the war, which ended when the Taliban seized power in August.

Dozens of Chinese mining companies have descended on Kabul in recent weeks seeking contracts for other mines.
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Taliban members during a tour through a tunnel in Mes Aynak, which is reputed to hold the highest-grade copper.

U.S. officials say they are concerned that China will fill the vacuum left by the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Beijing developed a relationship with the Taliban in recent years and kept its Kabul embassy functioning when Western missions fled the Taliban takeover.
Iran, another U.S. rival, is in talks to secure a huge iron ore deposit in the west of the country. Tehran, too, has fostered good ties with the Taliban.

Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorest countries, but its mountainous geology contains huge riches: gold, precious stones, coal, oil and gas, lithium, and rare-earth minerals. China already controls most of the world’s rare-earth minerals, which are used to manufacture a variety of technologies, including components in electric vehicles and smartphone touch screens.

American experts a decade ago estimated the value of Afghanistan’s mineral resources at $1 trillion. While the U.S. deployed tens of thousands of troops there and spent hundreds of billions of dollars, it was never able to unlock this bounty.

“The rest of the world have extracted their mines and have used them for their countries’ development while we were engaged in war for 43 years and, hence, our resources have remained untouched,” said the Taliban’s minister for minerals and petroleum, Shahabuddin Dilawar.

CIS anti-terrorist center forecasts growing resistance to Taliban
3-2-22 TASS
"It was stressed that the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan had created pre-requisites for expanding the hotbeds of terrorism near the Central Asian member countries of the CIS"
MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The CIS anti-terrorist center forecasts an upsurge in anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan and redistribution of the markets of weapons, narcotic drugs and human trafficking, the center’s press-bureau said following a report by the center’s chief, Yevgeny Sysoyev, at the 15th conference of the chiefs of CIS national anti-terrorist centers.

"According to the forecast, the situation in Afghanistan this year will remain unstable. There are a number of prerequisites for its potential aggravation, such as a worsening of the humanitarian crisis, stronger anti-Taliban resistance, growing confrontation between the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) and other terrorist groups, redivision of criminal markets of weapons, narcotic drugs and human trafficking," the center said.

It stressed that the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan had created pre-requisites for expanding the hotbeds of terrorism near the Central Asian member countries of the CIS. In particular, there has been growing negative influence on the radicalization of civilian population in the neighboring countries, greater threats to the national security of the CIS member-states from foreign militants drifting from the zones of terrorist activity in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan with the flows of migrants.

The Taliban radical movement on August 15, 2021 entered the Afghan capital Kabul without encountering any resistance to have established full control of the city within a matter of hours. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said he was leaving the country in an attempt to prevent bloodshed. Vice-President Amrullah Saleh said that under the Constitution he was taking over as the head of state and called for armed resistance to the Taliban. The Western countries evacuated their citizens and embassy staffers.


Gas is still flowing in Europe through the Yamal-Europe pipeline, the Blu stream 1 and 2, the Nord-Stream 1 and the Turk stream despite the undeclared war between the US and its European allies and Russia on Ukraine’s territories. However, the West has found an opponent who has many cards to play and is equipped with sufficient capabilities to cause significant pain to those who would impose sanctions on Russia. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would prevent the exportation of products and raw materials from Russia until the end of 2023, provided that the Russian government determines the list of unfriendly countries. This decision is a severe blow firstly to Europe and also to the whole world, which will suffer from the mutual economic war between Russia and the US.

Russia exports essential materials and products that the world needs at least in the coming days, months or years. It exports yearly oil worth $141 billion (35% of its export), iron and steel worth $16 billion (4.8 %), precious stones and minerals worth $30.4 billion (9%), grains worth $9.5 billion (2.8 %), machinery including computers worth $8.3 billion (2.5 %), wood worth $8.2 billion (2.5 %), fertilizers worth $7.5 billion (2.8 %), copper worth $5.6 billion (1.7 %), aluminium worth $5.5 billion (1.8 %), and fish worth $4.6 billion (1.4 %).

Russia says it will not stop its exports until a list of its “non-friends” who imposed sanctions and allies is prepared in detail. This means that, sometime in the future, it is likely to stop exporting gas to some European countries with a hostile stance towards it (led by Britain) and other US allies.

Russia will also announce sanctions against the US, the first-ever, particularly in its export of platinum, titanium, palladium, nickel and neon. Moreover, amid the Spring planting season, Russia is dropping European and American farmers in line with the political decision to meet Western sanctions with similar hurtful ones. Russia’s share in the world markets represents a third of the global production of potash fertilizers, about 10 per cent of nitrogen fertilizers, and about 20 per cent of all other fertilizers. Russia is considered the premier supplier of rare natural stone materials.
 
'So how much money has been laundered?'

Pentagon accounts for weapons abandoned in Afghanistan

28 Apr, 2022
Congressionally mandated report on Afghanistan withdrawal tallies at least $7 billion in abandoned US military gear

US forces left behind military equipment worth more than $7 billion during their chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, the Pentagon has reportedly revealed in a long-awaited accounting.

Washington gave Afghan government forces $18.6 billion worth of weaponry from 2005 to 2021, and $7.1 billion of that gear remained in the war-torn country after the US withdrawal on August 30, CNN cited the Pentagon as saying on Wednesday.

The congressionally mandated report is yet another reminder of the severe losses incurred during the chaotic US pull-out, which resulted in 13 troop deaths and the abandonment of thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies. Critics of President Joe Biden’s administration have decried the Pentagon’s failure to keep US weapons from falling into Taliban hands.

“Nobody ever thought such stupidity as this feeble-brained withdrawal was possible,” said former President Donald Trump, who called for sending in troops to retrieve the equipment or bombing the gear to destroy it.

Some of the abandoned equipment, including 78 aircraft that were left at Kabul airport, was permanently disabled before US forces withdrew, the Pentagon report showed. More than $920 million worth of US aircraft remained in Afghanistan after Washington’s exit, as did 40,000 military vehicles.

Also left behind were communications gear, more than 300,000 weapons and almost all of the 42,000 pieces of specialized equipment that had been given to Afghan government forces. Those pieces included radio systems, encryption devices, transmitters, night vision goggles, surveillance gear and “biometric and positioning equipment,” the Pentagon said. Most of the 9,524 air-to-ground munitions that were left behind were non-precision explosives.

Ukraine was the beneficiary of some equipment that had originally been earmarked for Afghanistan. The report showed that five Mi-17 helicopters were officially transferred to Ukraine this year after previously being sent to the former Soviet republic for maintenance work. Other equipment shifted to Ukraine included 37,000 howitzer shells, as well as rifle ammunition, grenade cartridges and 119,000 82mm mortar rounds.
 
And here, too, it begins to "boil"
2022-08-25

The Taliban are moving their troops to the border of Tajikistan.

Tanks and other armored vehicles, previously captured by the terrorist movement "Taliban" (banned in Russia – ed.) after the United States left Afghanistan, were seen moving towards the border of Tajikistan. It is noted that we are talking about the deployment of a large terrorist group in relatively close proximity to the border with this state, which may be evidence that terrorists are preparing to attack Tajikistan.

A few weeks ago, the field commanders of the militants of the terrorist movement "Taliban" again made threats against Tajikistan. This happened against the background of how the Taliban were denied the return of helicopters and planes hijacked from Afghanistan by local military pilots in order to prevent the militants from taking possession of this military equipment. The threat, apparently, is more than real, because if earlier only large detachments of militants were observed in the area of the border with Tajikistan, then the current transfer of military equipment again indicates that the jihadists are preparing for an attack.

The fact that the Taliban terrorists are preparing for a possible attack is probably also known in Russia, as evidenced by the statement of Sergei Shoigu, in which he noted that Russia, against the background of the situation in Afghanistan, is increasing the combat readiness of its bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as other crisis response forces.
Талибы стягивают танки и свои отряды к границам Таджикистана
 
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