NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg commented on the alliance’s plans in Afghanistan after President Trump declared on Twitter that US troops will be home from the country by Christmas. Stoltenberg insisted that NATO members will consult with each other and decide together when to leave Afghanistan.
“We decided to go into Afghanistan together, we will make decisions on future adjustments together, and when the time is right, we will leave together,” Stoltenberg said on Thursday. The NATO chief also hinted at a longer presence in Afghanistan, saying the alliance is “committed” to the country’s future.
“We will make decisions based on the conditions on the ground, because we think it is extremely important to continue to be committed to the future of Afghanistan, because it is in our interest to preserve the long term security of Afghanistan,” he said.
Trump’s declaration took people by surprise, and it is not yet clear if the US military will work to meet the Christmas deadline. Earlier on Wednesday, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said the US will drawdown to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan by early 2021.
The withdrawal of US troops is scheduled to be completed by April or May 2021 as per the US-Taliban peace deal. The agreement calls for a complete withdrawal of all “foreign forces,” including NATO troops.
NATO is a criminal organisation that commits war crimes on the regular. Ethnic cleansing and genocide is the NATO modus operandi. Arrest them all and bring the troops home.
So some fool unelected official now has authority over when our troops come home.
“Commander in Chief” now means NOTHING….just like the rest of the Constitution.
… and the fool official isn’t even an American….
“We will leave when the heroin is fully processed.”
Translation: Israel has told me to make this announcement because they are not ready for things to change.
Yes the opium trade is still too lucrative
Wonderful Saturday and great Thanksgiving from Edmonton
Canada. Take care.
Indeed, KJ. The leaked budgets of the I/C (especially the Agency) going back about 50 years, bears no relationship to the amounts of money spent. It has long been a source of cash for the group and in fact, it was the basis for locating CA/SA the importation pipeline through Mena Airport, thus allowing Bill Clinton the funds to create the Arkansas Development Bank and spread political money far and wide. There was a great Netflix series on several years ago, called “Quarry.” It actually touched upon the Agency’s involvement is harvesting and selling the heroin out of the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam war. It was an excellent production and I told my wife at the time, it got produced by mistake….there would be no second season. Yes – it was promptly killed off.
I remember a series about the Iraq war on cable tv called “Over There”. It was critical of the war and didn’t show us in a good light. It also was scrapped after one year. I thought the same as you and wondered how it got on tv at all.
I believe they drop the ball occasionally and a head or two might roll at some studio, but by and large I don’t think they watch every production as closely as they think they do. I am still amazed that the movie, “The Big Short” was made and released. It so clearly defined the blatant manipulation and corruption at Goldman-Sachs and JP Morgan that people should have been in the streets. People of course didn’t understand the story because they’ve been so dumbed-down that they believe anything fed to them.
What the Secretary-General means is that if Trump loses, his presidency ends immediately after the election, as far a they’re concerned. He will not be allowed to complete the job of removing troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year.
Talk is cheap. Deeds before words!!! If Trump couldn’t remove the troops from Afghanistan in his first 4 years, how will he be able to do it over the next four years? He has surrounded himself with the “perpetual war” neocon crowd. Every one of the officials in his cabinet are foreign policy interventionists to their core. His entire presidency has demonstrated complete servility to his Middle East masters, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the domestic military industries. Never once did he do anything to cross their agendas.
Israel has little stake in Afghanistan, its Iran they are after.
The article good as stated, the Euro Stoltenberg and Stoltenberg’s Euro globalist political masters are calling the shots over how the U.S. may or may not leave Afghanistan.
They aren’t even trying to hide any more, who’s in charge and who owns Harris-Biden.
Israel’s stake in getting the US into AFG was huge. It is what made IRQ, SYR and Libya possible because they then had the US fully committed to world deployments whenever and wherever they wanted them. Today, the US presence in AFG is completely tied to maintaining poppy production to financed the Agency. James Angleton made sure that the Mossad was brought into the key control points of the CIA during his tenure. The CIA is not seriously run by Americans.
Fair point.
However, all Western Deep State organizations wanted Afghan opium to be restarted after the Taliban shut it down. The Soviet intervention and its demise created a new Golden Triangle that was just too golden to let go.
The prior legitimate Afghan governments had banned opium production but the trade had been slowly growing in the 20th century. Perhaps there is more Deep history yet to be revealed about the setup for the Soviet Afghan War.
Israel is undergoing one of the harshest COVID-19 lockdowns atm and things are not pretty for the supposed ‘Chosen People’. They answer to Rothschildean Europe as any other Western state does.
I suspect the time will be “right ” when the US empire collapses in the next few years as predicted by(Johan Galtung, F Jameson, Orlov)
The U.S. will simply transition from indigenous nationalist rule to Euro-globalist rule.
But don’t worry, America and Americans will still front for and take the blame for Western European imperialism so the Euros can feel all nice and clean and righteously pure of war and genocide.
Stoltenberg is all but asserting Afghanistan is a European war, not an American war, and America may not leave without European NATO’s permission.
Guess Europe’s moneymongers really like thatr Afghan opium.
Dont be so disingenuous. You dont make the decisions you silly deluded man. You’ll be turning out the lights when joining the US in leaving.