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2023-02-27 Afghanistan

Afghanistan at a crossroads: military coup or 'transfer of jihad to Pakistan'

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Posted by badanov 2023-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 ...the closure of the checkpoint "impedes trade on both sides of the border and blocks an important commercial artery and trade route from Pakistan to the countries of Central Asia."

And graft. Don't forget the all important graft.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-27 07:34|| 2023-02-27 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Think of our own Longshoremen, only in a much more primitive sense.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-27 07:37|| 2023-02-27 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I have noted that Regnum is a Russian site whose authors must either be paid substantially for their silly propaganda, or be on the pipe. To give Russia a leading role in the future of Afghanistan is absurd given unforgettable lessons Moscow learned in the period 1979-1988. Nearer to home the Russians continually have their fingers burned in Chechnya and Daghestan. Should the Russian military fail in Ukraine it is predictable that the two regions separatist movements will revive.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-27 07:56|| 2023-02-27 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ And the US didn't appear to learn any lessons from its escapade in AFG, either. The MIC and the corrupt politicians made out like bandits, but VA facilities have their fair share of physically and mentally f'ed up soldiers if they aren't asking for money at traffic lights.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-27 08:17|| 2023-02-27 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I have noted that Regnum is a Russian site

It is, indeed, Slavising Unineting5672.

whose authors must either be paid substantially for their silly propaganda, or be on the pipe.

Normally we aren’t that interested in how Russia thinks the world works. But just now they are reasserting themselves in Rantburg’s areas of interest, so we must.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-27 09:29|| 2023-02-27 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 #6 Delete this Putin propaganda now. Otherwise you're implicated.

If you insist.

Posted by badanov 2023-02-27 13:22|| 2023-02-27 13:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Heh

Posted by Frank G 2023-02-27 13:29|| 2023-02-27 13:29|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ *golf clap*

Posted by SteveS 2023-02-27 13:32|| 2023-02-27 13:32|| Front Page Top

#9 LMAO!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-02-27 13:55|| 2023-02-27 13:55|| Front Page Top

#10 badanov’s oak clue bat is not padded.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-27 14:37|| 2023-02-27 14:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Meh, I can live with either one.

Posted by Ebbains Threrenter5475 2023-02-27 22:55|| 2023-02-27 22:55|| Front Page Top