The long expected “reduction in violence” between the US and the Taliban was finalized, sign and put into effect on Friday at midnight. The deal will last seven days, and could be immediately followed by the Afghanistan peace deal.
Taliban officials are suggesting that if all is well, the final peace deal would be signed on February 29, Pompeo confirmed the date, but US officials aren’t confirmed the specifics of this plan.
On the other hand, it is being reported that if the peace plan is signed, the Taliban and Afghan government would enter into their own power-sharing talks in the 10 days that follow. This may be difficult with Afghanistan still dealing with a contested election outcome.
For many months, all indications are that the peace deal itself is fairly simple. The Taliban wants all foreign troops out of the country, and the US wants assurances that the Taliban will keep ISIS and al-Qaeda out of the country. Beyond that, the Taliban is expected to work out deals with the US-backed government, whatever that turns out to be.
Let’s hope this isn’t spoiled by any foolishness.
You mean like the last 8 times this happened when some incident (drone strike, assassination, convoy attack) would “mysteriously” happen days before treaties would have gone into affect. Peace is bad for the defense business.
Almost scary if there is no incident(false flag). Then we’ll know the business lost in Afghanistan will be made up somewhere else.
One week of nothing triggering an orange tantrum…mmm hmmm…let me know how that works out for ya…
I’m optimistic this will hold. The hard part will then be forming a unified Afghanistan govt to explain to the US what “all foreign forces out of the country” means, because it’s a concept some would like to make needlessly complicated.
Fantastic, it’s the deal that should have been signed with them in Sept 2001 instead of the USA invading
False-flag attack in Afghanistan coming up next week, folks. There’s no way CIA/Mossad is going to let go of 90% of the world’s heroin production.
Eric prince knows his role…..
Correct spelling is EriK, not Eric.
Prefer errork wince….
No big deal 🙂
Besides, the guy is freakin nuts (just like his sis).
How’s a troop negotiation down to 8,600 troops a peace initiative?
A US-implemented strike or false flag is almost a certainty and the Taliban are preparing for one.
The patriot a Taliban should fight until the last western invader and his stooges have been kicked out.
This may be little more than a move to break up the Taliban’s spring campaign momentum.
Still, maybe this is progress towards lasting peace.