Alexander Mercouris
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Taliban Advances; ex UK Defence Ministers Make Absurd Call for Britain to Intervene
News Topic 245
Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan gov’t spokesman
Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan govt spokesman
Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government’s senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as U.S. and other foreign troops withdraw.
Taliban has no resources to seize Kabul, its offensive loses momentum — Russian diplomat
Taliban has no resources to seize Kabul, its offensive loses momentum – Russian diplomat
Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Alexander Bikantov stressed that Afghan government troops had managed to regain control over the lost districts in some provinces
Balance of forces in Afghanistan appears disheartening — Russian UN envoy
Balance of forces in Afghanistan appears disheartening – Russian UN envoy
The envoy added that the settlement in Afghanistan is possible only via talks, not hostilities
‘British forces must go back into Afghanistan’: Former defence ministers Johnny Mercer and Tobias Ellwood call for rethink as Taliban ramps up Helmand attacks
Former defence ministers: ‘British forces must go back to Afghanistan’
Ex-Commando Johnny Mercer and Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons defence committee, are leading calls for the UK to reverse its decision to abandon the country.
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Perhaps the British have been using some of the opium they have cultivated in Helmand province, which has become the opium center of Afghanistan under the protection of British troops. Afghan farmers are paid $350 million to produce 90% of the world’s opium, having a street value in Europe and the United States in excess of $27 billion. Good bet that the Taliban will put an end to the whole sordid business, which has also made addicts of 10% of the Afghani population Any development plan should make it more than worthwhile for Afghan farmers to grow another crop, such… Read more »
So, you’d trade the lives of some western dopeheads for more secular Afghani heads?
I’m surprised Biden Jr. isn’t in on that racket somehow. No doubt we’ll soon be hearing from the Kosovars, insisting that they, as brothers in arms, have yet another God-given right to continue being a transit pipeline to Europe, for Afghan dope.
Looks like another glorious victory for the Coalition, keeping the world safe.
Never mind, El Cid will send the Cackle to sort things out.
Britain steps up as world’s delusional clown show.
Again !!!!!!!
Monty Python lives on.
Please take look at the comments in the Daily Mail article, sort by best rated. It is encouraging to know that most Brits agree with The Duran and Alexander Mercouris.
Sure, fine…..but their democracy is as led by the nose as America’s, so who really cares what they agree with?
I’ll go out on a limb here and posit that that foolish phrase ‘democracy vs. autocracy’ should really be ‘democracy vs meritocracy’ since certainly the US version is rarely based on genuine merits and reflecting that Putin was chosen by Yeltsin specifically as the one best to manage RU’s transition out of a post-Soviet chaos. So far, he’s done pretty well on a tough beat, irrespective of any shortcomings, real or imagined.
UK just wants to intervene so they can destroy evidence and clean up their tracks.
Actually, for once I’d like to see the Brits do the stand up thing, even if it’s doomed to failure. The Taliban are brutal executioners of any and all. Of course, among their ‘noble goals’ is to prevent the Russians & Chinese from gaining any points by bringing a negotiated end to the bloodshed, which is doubtful anyway. At the very least the Brits might buy some time to evacuate those remaining that the US has failed to. That’d be the honorable thing to do, even within contemporary British misplaced concepts of honor, as it were. If the Brits weren’t… Read more »
The Brits are to the US as the Gurkhas once were to the Brits. That’s the backbone of NATO, the rest are well, sometimes out of control warmongers and sometimes reluctant passivists. Not a strong alliance. The Russian and Chinese alliance, on the other hand….well, you add it up.