Posted on 07/09/2021 11:54:29 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Emomali Rakhmon, the president of Tajikistan, that Moscow would help the impoverished former Soviet republic contend with the fallout from NATO's exit from neighbouring Afghanistan if needed.
Rakhmon has ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster his country's border with Afghanistan after more than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the frontier in response to Taliban militant advances.
Lavrov, speaking on Wednesday during a visit to Laos, said Russia was ready to use its military base in Tajikistan, one of its biggest abroad, to ensure the security of its allies in the region, part of the former Soviet Union and an area where Moscow tries to retain influence.
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Hahahahahahahahaha!
Good. Let the Russians go back there and see how well it works out for them this time around. Crapghanistan isn’t worth saving.
The only outside nation in the past 2000 years to have had any long term success in occupying Afghanistan were the Mongols.
Everyone else who tried to change the Afghani culture was gone within a few decades or less. The Mongols were there for hundreds of years using the strategy of submit or die. They killed enough people to convince the tribes they were serious and installed puppet governments to do their bidding.
This isn't Russian generosity. They have no intention of going in there again.
This is a baiting move to keep us in there...
The mineral wealth of Afghanistan has never been fully tapped by the West.
Greeks too.
Yeah, but they were over 2000 years ago.
Xi will tap it.
Afghanistan is problematic.
No, in the next few years it wouldn’t mean much. It’s down
the road into the future that it becomes a real mess.
After the folks who pushed for abandoning Afghanistan have
moved on to support other brainless stuff over the next few
years, China makes a deal to open a massive airbase there.
With China in country, it becomes easy for China to orchestrate
a takeover of Pakistan. Then eight to ten years from now,
China will be able to foment serious trouble for India from
both sides. India is a large potential military ally of
ours, should a major dust up take place. The last thing
we need is it compromised.
China having a forward air base close to the Middle East
wouldn’t work out well for anyone. Europe would be more
vulnerable as well.
Other ports on the Mediterranean are opening up to China. It
will have military bases there before long.
So each one of these cases one by one, that we judge them to
be of no consequence, add up over time.
Now is the time to short-circuit some of them so the situation
doesn’t become so dire, that we have to conduct a major war
to resolve it.
It’s just a dig at Biden. Nothing else.
Most dangerous man in the world.
My brother did research and wrote a paper on this 30 years ago. The last time Russians were there there were lots of pictures of black colored mountain ranges we’re battles were taking place in convoys moving.
The Geopolitics was discussing that wherever there are limited untapped sources of needed resources there will be wars and colonization. Those black mountain ranges were filled with iron, hence steel.
One of the most foolhardy things Obama did was getting suckered by the French into a war with Libya. However, in retrospect, one of the very few smart things he did was to leave Libya shortly after killing Gaddafi and letting them return to their natural state of tribal warfare rather than spending decades there on the fool’s mission of “bringing democracy”. His was a case of wrong entry, right exit. Afghanistan was a case of right entry, wrong exit. US national security interest necessitated we send a message by bombing them and enabling the Northern Alliance and the Pashtuns to drive out the Taliban. We won the war in three months and achieved our messaging objective. We fouled up when we did not go the Obama route and leave them with the rubble as a reminder to the returning Taliban what happens when they house terrorist threats to the US and let them return to their tribal warfare rather than spending years trying to bring democracy to a backward tribal society.
I think the Chicom aggression on the Himalayan border with India is just a training exercise for an eventual move into Afghanistan.
If our current military and political ‘leaders’ had been around after World War II - - - rather than dividing Berlin and clamping down on German crap - they would be ‘respecting’ German “culture”. Same with Japan - rather than hand Japan a new Constitution that tossed the Emperor they’d be ‘respecting’ Japanese military culture and we’d be back in the soup within a few years.
We need to stay out of wars until the current crop of stupid thugs in DC have retired.
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