Looking for some international endorsement of last week’s peace deal in Afghanistan, the US has created its own draft resolution for the UN Security Council which would back the peace deal, and call on the international community to offer “sustained support.”
The UN Security Council has scheduled closed door sessions on the matter, and it’s not clear exactly when a vote will take place. Russia in particular insisted on consultations before a vote.
This Russian response is likely related to the US blocking a UN statement backing a Syria ceasefire the Russians are involved in. There may be a tit-for-tat effort here to block, or approve, both deals.
The US resolution for the UN would not only endorse the peace plan as written, but would call for the Taliban to take additional steps to reduce violence. This may irk the Taliban, as the US seems to be trying to circumvent them with this language.
Afghanistan has endured another invasion, occupation, and civil war, but if the media coverage is to be taken seriously only one faction has ever been violent and has the responsibility to be less violent: The Taliban govt the US invaded to topple.
The US has already broken the agreement and more will come.
What peace deal?
The US did not negotiate a deal with the Government of Afghanistan. They negotiated with the “so called terrorists” whom they invaded Afghanistan to topple. Being unable to defeat the Taliban they then, negotiated with them as if they were the rightful Government of Afghanistan. Now comes more and more conditions as is the normal route the US uses to wriggle out of any agreement.
…. Well the Taliban sort of were the government of Afghanistan before the U.S. invasion.
By that standard, and by the standard of the Taliban’s real success in controlling ground in Afghanistan, they ARE the legit Afghan government over the internationally recognized puppet regime in Kabul the U.S. props up.
Only a little bit of Afghanistan held by the Northern Alliance remained Taliban-free in 2001. They have since been absorbed into the government in Kabul, but enjoy little support from the overwhelming Pashtun tribal majority. (The Taliban doesn’t directly participate in Afghan elections, obviously.)
Oh Man, 21st Century’s Worst Surrender of American & Allied Forces Than Shameful Defeat of American by North Viet Nam. But still, Super Terrorist America will never learn the Lesson.
The Americans defeated themselves in Vietnam; they never lost a battle.
The U.S. government earned the lasting enmity of the indigenous Vietnam population and a large portion of the U.S. domestic population, then ran out of money with careless spending both on war, establishing the Welfare State, and beginnings of the Surveillance State.
Also, the U.S. did learn.
In 1973 the U.S. cut a deal with Saudi Arabia to enshrine the Petrodollar and hence the place of the U.S. dollar in every nation’s forex reserve.
With a tap into every other nation’s GDP, the U.S. ensured that it would be very difficult to run out of money, nor could any nation escape the need for U.S. dollars even over gold, so their transactions could be tracked and use of U.S. dollars leveraged against them.
The U.S. domestic population was subdued by offshoring as many middle-class factory jobs as possible to China and Asia as well as developing less people-intensive technologies for production, and increasingly, design, with automation and artificial intelligence. Also, many, many dumb TV shows and movies that glorify stupidity…
Finally, the internal workings of targeted cultures were explored and learned with adversarial and hostile intent.
U.S./Western Propaganda [pysops] are now augmented with sophisticated fifth-generation economic and cultural warfare strategems such as colour revolutions and virally captured revolutionary movements such as produced colour revolutions and neo-Caliphate Islamic State.
You are right, Sir; America can make Americans Rich by erasing poverty not only in America and also from the whole world but regret to say that, still American Administrations and almost All Institutions are trying to Sacrifice even The Last American Soldier & Last American $ for The Master, i.e., The Zionist Nazi Terrorist Israel. Thus, keeping Americans under Fear etc., etc., and doing The Super Terrorist Nazi Israel’s Superiority not only on Arabs but also on American Citizens; any one can wrongly Crucify America but can’t speak The Truth about Israeli Nazi Treatment of Palestinians. PERIOD.
I sure don’t think you have the truth . Israel has the best government in the world .
Well, NATO probably isn’t keen on this deal. Its easier to just have the U.S. occupy Afghanistan for them.
However, the U.S. probably also realizes that if they want to remain in Afghanistan, they will need a more genuine political solution that has Russia and China on board.
That means, trying to pull some hoodwinkery at the U.N..
Probably the ol’ lets all gang up versus the other guy trick, in this case, Iran being the odd party out.
No I believe Putin has always been for peace for every one Syria and Afghanistan . I don’t think Russia would block a peace deal in Afghanistan . But you can bet your last dollar Putin will make his friend president Trump question why the U.S. thinks it premature to stop the war in Syria .. I suspect Putin will pick on Trump for trying to drag out the war out against Syria too for 18 years . I suspect Putin will win and Trump will agree with his buddy .