With the Taliban already engaging in several offensives across
Afghanistan, they’ve really got the government on the defensive. Friday,
they added to the fighting, with a new offensive against Farah City in Western Afghanistan.
Heavy clashes are reported in several parts of Farah Province,
and while police say the Taliban have been pushed out of the city, they
seem to be moving to continue to contest the territory.
The Taliban controls much of Farah Province going into this fight. The
province is an important opium-farming area which is a potential source
of revenue. With control over much of the surrounding area, it’s only
natural they would also want the provincial capital.
Opponents of the ongoing US-Taliban peace process have been trying to
sell recent Taliban offensives as proof they can’t be trusted to make
peace. Taliban officials say they want to keep leverage to push the
peace deal through with such fights.
Go, Team Taliban! Resist & repel foreign invaders & occupiers.
Can’t wait for Ghani to swing from a lamppost. God bless the Taliban, who are patriots.
So much of this we don’t hear about in the MSM, which is all about sex scandals and other gossip. I’m thinking that the Zionist PTB have long ago given up any hope of not being hated and despised by 99% of mankind and have dropped any pretense of legality: they don’t give a damn what anybody thinks. Afghan traitors exiting from on top of the US embassy in Kabul when the Taliban eventually take over will be a back page item in the MSM.
Remember when the Taliban go on murdering rampage just before this deal, it simply means they are still in charge of Afghanistan.
This time it is Taliban signing Indian treaty. It never made sense that they would agree to only 5,000 pullout. It seems we started our victory lap too soon, by announcing a pretty much forever presence of special ops and CIA. And Camp David signing …
Taliban had different plans. The question remains — how much longer will any US-loyal Kabul government last? Last time they all met in Russia, it did look like Taliban has good relationships with former President Karzai, who ably represented Kabul side as well. The more Taliban takes away heroin generating regions, the less money Kabul has. Somehow, mysteriously, billions of dollars of heroin found their way out of airtight Afghanistan, with donkey passes leading nowhere fast. Which indicates an organized, protected air travel to reliable distributor. And none of them more reliable then Kosovo heroin merchants to Europe. From Kosovo there are no real birders to Albania and from there, Mediterranean is their oyster. Taliban is putting squeeze on the revenue, and to make up for it, our stay in Kabul will have to become much more expensive. And now that Taliban is not getting arms from Pakistan — where is it coming from? Partially, from taking government territory all the American supplies were left behind. Partially, I suspect that Central Asia is the supplier, and that means with a knowledge from both China and Russia. The longer we stay, the mire will Afghanistan become an Asian problem with Asian regional solution.
What confirmation bias… US media / officials always expect to get everything they want as a pre-condition to talking, talks being the reward we hand out to the utterly defeated. The Taliban correctly understand that approaching the US from a position of strength is the only hope that the US can at all be trusted to make peace. Yet we never admit defeat, all we sometimes do is declare victory. And the better the Taliban do the harder it is for the US to say that. There’s a potential silver lining to Trump’s ability to ignore the facts…
Appears the Talliman really wanted to go to Camp David. . ..
the taliban wiped out most of the opium production before. this s why the usa claims they need to stay in afghanistan. something they refuse to admit.