🇦🇫🇷🇺 Asia's powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: 'the country's reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.'
✒️ Pepe Escobar

#Afghanistan #Taliban #Russia
https://thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar/from-russia-with-taliban-love

🇦🇫 What we see in #Afghanistan is a #Taliban leadership very different from that which I knew in the past. They have taken lessons from past mistakes.
✒️ Alastair Crooke

https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/driving-a-great-game-re-set

🇦🇫 Between the complex internal dynamics of the #Taliban and the western trick of conditional aid, it is the Muslim world that must act to save #Afghanistan
✒️ Pepe Escobar

https://thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar/will-the-islamic-world-save-afghanistan

🇦🇫 Most significantly, rather than having a tunnel vision limited to the narrow territory of Kandahar, the new young #Taliban leaders want to play the strategic ‘Great Game’.
✒️ Alastair Crooke

#review2021
https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/todays-taliban-may-be-truly-new-and-the-shift-could-transform-the-middle-east

🚃🇮🇷🇦🇫 #Iran is in talks with the #Taliban to extend a rail link from its border city of Khaf to #Afghanistan city of Herat, an official has said.
✒️ Gordon Duff

https://thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/iran-in-talks-with-taliban-to-resume-silk-road-rail-project

🇦🇫🇵🇰🇮🇳 Neither has anything against Pakistan per se, it’s just that they don’t believe that any given actor should be disproportionately dependent on a single partner like many assumed that the #Taliban was via #Pakistan.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Afghanistan
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/russia-iran-will-celebrate-indias-return-to-afghanistan

🇺🇸🇦🇫 Zawaheri wasn’t plotting terror, and the #Taliban weren’t violating the Doha Agreement
✒️ Abdel Bari Atwan

https://thealtworld.com/abdel_bari_atwan/bidens-theatrical-stunt

🎥🎤🇦🇫🇷🇺🇮🇷 Scott Ritter joined Fault Lines to discuss the worrisome advances of the #Taliban in #Afghanistan. Scott believes the Taliban will be given a window to prove they are able to govern, or else #Russia and #Iran and others will swoop in and Afghanistan will disintegrate.

https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/scott-ritter-joins-fault-lines-to-discuss-the-taliban-takeover

🎥🇦🇫 From #Iran to #Lebanon to #Russia and #Afghanistan, and the consequences of the US military exit from it... Are the #Taliban today the same as the Taliban of yesterday?
+ Arabic
من الداخل | هل طالبان اليوم كما طالبان الأمس؟
🎤 @ZeinabSaffar w/ Alastair Crooke

https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/from-the-inside-is-the-todays-taliban-the-same-as-yesterdays-taliban

⚡️🇵🇰🇦🇫 #Pakistan-#Taliban ties are a lot more complicated than most observers assume, especially in light of their latest tensions.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Afghanistan
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/twenty-truths-about-pakistani-taliban-ties-in-light-of-their-latest-tensions

🇦🇫 For the future of #Afghanistan, it is important to know the history of the #Taliban and to find a suitable common ground.
✒️ Leonid Savin

https://thealtworld.com/leonid_savin/the-taliban-phenomenon

🇵🇰🇦🇫🇺🇿 PAKAFUZ isn’t as promising of a project as it initially seemed due to its total dependence on seemingly intractable #Pakistan-#Taliban tensions and the revival of the NTSC as a viable complementary alternative.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/pakafuzs-connectivity-potential-is-totally-dependent-on-troubled-pakistani-taliban-ties

🇦🇫 Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, doing something the US military never could, cutting down #Afghanistan’s poppy fields.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

#Taliban
https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/talibans-massively-successful-opium-eradication-raises-questions-about-what-us-was-doing-all-along

🇵🇰🇦🇫🇨🇳 The tense #Pakistan-#Taliban security dilemma, US influence over Islamabad, and #CPEC’s lackluster progress in recent years combine to temper expectations.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/afghanistans-participation-in-cpec-would-be-positive-but-cant-be-taken-for-granted

🇮🇷🇦🇫 Those two’s North-South Transport Corridor through #Iran will now become the lifeline for the Afghan people and their war-torn economy.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Taliban
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/the-improvement-of-iranian-taliban-relations-also-benefits-india-russia

🇦🇫🇷🇺 The whole #Russia-#Taliban affair involves a humongous package – encompassing oil, gas, minerals and loads of rail connectivity.
✒️ Pepe Escobar

https://thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar/russia-sco-brics-the-normalization-of-afghanistan

🇦🇫🇵🇰 The #Taliban’s decision to describe the Wakhan Corridor’s southeastern border as Jammu & #Kashmir instead of Gilgit-Baltistan is a clever psychological provocation against #Pakistan
✒️ Andrew Korybko

https://thealtworld.substack.com/p/the-talibans-recognition-of-jammu

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/the-talibans-recognition-of-jammu-kashmir-as-separate-from-pakistan-will-irritate-islamabad

🇦🇫 According to Guterres, the main goal of the 3rd round of negotiations was to expand international cooperation with #Afghanistan in a more consistent, coordinated and structured manner.
✒️ Leonid Savin

#Taliban
https://thealtworld.substack.com/p/the-taliban-is-confidently-moving

https://thealtworld.com/leonid_savin/the-taliban-is-confidently-moving-towards-international-recognition

🇦🇫🌐 Ten Things To Know About #Afghanistan On The Third Anniversary Of The #Taliban’s Return To Power
✒️ Andrew Korybko

https://thealtworld.substack.com/p/ten-things-to-know-about-afghanistan

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/ten-things-to-know-about-afghanistan-on-the-third-anniversary-of-the-talibans-return-to-power