My investigation with Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov on how the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, spent years financing terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. forces.
The Russians played their old Viet Nam playbook in Afghanistan. And that’s exactly why we should be tuning the Russians up at every turn in Ukraine. Payback’s a bitch.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is re-appearing from the Signal Gate, he said: “Rather than trying to correct the president of the United States, and the vice president, in the Oval Office, when he [Zelensky] was invited there for the first meeting, and could have sat side-by-side with the president, signing a minerals deal that bound our economies together for the foreseeable future. You want to talk about a security guarantee? That would have been phenomenal. I think that was a historic and missed opportunity.”
This is false.
First, Trump administration officials led by Walz have repeatedly stated that the US would not give Ukraine security guarantees protecting Ukraine against Russia under any circumstances.
Second, the Trump administration signed a minerals agreement with a democratic government in Afghanistan, claimed that it would solidify US support to Afghanistan, and then signed a deal with the Taliban committing the US to remove all forces from Afghanistan. The Trump administration excluded Afghanistan’s government from participation in its talks with the Taliban.
Background:
In 2017, the White House, led by US President Donald J. Trump, signed a minerals development agreement with the then-in-power Afghan government led by Ashraf Ghani.
The September 2017 agreement gave US big business near-monopoly access to development of an estimated $1 trillion mineral reserves in Afghanistan. Both sides called the agreement a critical underpinning for long-term US commitment to Afghanistan.
In 2020, the Trump White House negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban – at the time a terrorist organization the US was at war with – committing America to withdraw all US forces from Afghan on a hard deadline. The Trump administration cut the deal over the strident objections of the democratically elected Afghan government led by Ghani, whose representatives were excluded from the White House-Taliban negotiations.
So glad you looked into this. I wrote about some of the similarities between campaigns, as well as the presence of Russians that warranted a closer look. This is better than anything I could have hoped to see.
Last paragraph in this piece:
Certain posts, like the comparison between the Taliban and Ukraine and group pictures taken with Russian journalists, might suggest a closer relationship than is currently recognized. RT disseminates a considerable amount of disinformation through its Arabic language outlet. These images and content alone are insufficient to draw such a conclusion, but the possibility warrants further exploration.
The Russians played their old Viet Nam playbook in Afghanistan. And that’s exactly why we should be tuning the Russians up at every turn in Ukraine. Payback’s a bitch.
Trumps Deals are Fake, so are Putin's
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is re-appearing from the Signal Gate, he said: “Rather than trying to correct the president of the United States, and the vice president, in the Oval Office, when he [Zelensky] was invited there for the first meeting, and could have sat side-by-side with the president, signing a minerals deal that bound our economies together for the foreseeable future. You want to talk about a security guarantee? That would have been phenomenal. I think that was a historic and missed opportunity.”
This is false.
First, Trump administration officials led by Walz have repeatedly stated that the US would not give Ukraine security guarantees protecting Ukraine against Russia under any circumstances.
Second, the Trump administration signed a minerals agreement with a democratic government in Afghanistan, claimed that it would solidify US support to Afghanistan, and then signed a deal with the Taliban committing the US to remove all forces from Afghanistan. The Trump administration excluded Afghanistan’s government from participation in its talks with the Taliban.
Background:
In 2017, the White House, led by US President Donald J. Trump, signed a minerals development agreement with the then-in-power Afghan government led by Ashraf Ghani.
The September 2017 agreement gave US big business near-monopoly access to development of an estimated $1 trillion mineral reserves in Afghanistan. Both sides called the agreement a critical underpinning for long-term US commitment to Afghanistan.
In 2020, the Trump White House negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban – at the time a terrorist organization the US was at war with – committing America to withdraw all US forces from Afghan on a hard deadline. The Trump administration cut the deal over the strident objections of the democratically elected Afghan government led by Ghani, whose representatives were excluded from the White House-Taliban negotiations.
So glad you looked into this. I wrote about some of the similarities between campaigns, as well as the presence of Russians that warranted a closer look. This is better than anything I could have hoped to see.
Last paragraph in this piece:
Certain posts, like the comparison between the Taliban and Ukraine and group pictures taken with Russian journalists, might suggest a closer relationship than is currently recognized. RT disseminates a considerable amount of disinformation through its Arabic language outlet. These images and content alone are insufficient to draw such a conclusion, but the possibility warrants further exploration.
https://hoaxlines.org/2021/underestimating-taliban-propaganda-may-partially-explain-the-failure-to-predict-takeover
Wonder when the world will
Figure out how the US used Ukraine to bleed Russia dry??