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America’s “honest disagreement” with Russia over Afghan drugs
Published: 04 February, 2010, 10:13
Edited: 05 February, 2010, 03:59
While the US intensifies its crackdown on Islamist militants in Afghanistan, the country's government is considering peace talks with the Taliban.
I’ve listened to Gareth Porter short clip at least five times. He Said that the Obama administration wants peace in Afghanistan but not until U.S troops are ready to leave Afghanistan! If I ask Gareth Porter whether the U.S military is Afghanistan to make war not peace, he would probably reject this assertion and yet the logic of this conclusion came from his own mouth. What is clear to me is the extent to which making wars qua making wars is the only game the American ruling elite seem to be able to wield as its economic capital and geopolitical prestige declines. “Honest” is not something which I will not associated with the United States military and the Obama administration.
US Army and NATO are weak. They are loosers. They must have a victory, a small one or a false one, but a victory in order to able to withdraw troops home. That's the reason Obama, US Army and NATO are not willing to fight seriously against talibans. They will and they must avoid all kind of risks before withdrawal in order to quarantee that NATO will not spit and that the homefront and politicians will keep on financing US Army and NATO troops in the future. Obama, US Army and NATO have a plan with the NATO fund established at the London meeting some weeks ago, to buy out taliban fighters so, that US Army and NATO troops can attack and achieve a victory.
America wants it's version of peace, no one else need apply. Unfortunately Americas MIC has other things in this pot which will never be in the open. There are large amounts of money changing hands here behind the scenes, that's why the war will go on to the detriment of all.
This is not an "honest disagreement"; it is a disaster. If US does not care about what the drugs do to Russia, Central Asia and beyond to Europe and China, that means that US does not validate other countries concerns, but is always quite indignant when other countries do not take our concerns seriously. If US does not care about the public health crisis that these drugs are posing, then we have a very, very serious issue at hand. Getting after drug "bazaars" is infantile. Sure, that is the way to catch the small fry, a junkie that sells drugs to earn for his own fix. Yet, examples world-wide multiply. Without the nexus between the crime bosses and "the international community", i.e. NATO, there would have never been an "independent Kosovo", nor the cozy relationship between the criminal ruling elite and the foreign occupation. Look at the Colombia. The violent struggle among the drug lords decades ago, resulted in a final government-drug lords new elite, working in perfect happiness with US, becoming strategic to US military bases for "protection". Drug business needs protection, and foreign military with the design to stay forever provided the best protection money can buy. In exchange for this freedom to operate the "legitimate" military agreements with US. The same process is under way in Mexico. The current government is in the process of "fighting" the drug clans. But what is shaping is the war that will eliminate all competion other then the drug lords that will cut the deal with the current government. Afghanistan is being pushed along those lines, with local flavor. Drug-lords providing cash to "government", which in turn "invites" permanent occupation for "protection".
Some individuals think that best way to teach people is through war. How pathetic is that! Even better word is barbaric.
America conceals its aggressive nature behind a barrage of self-serving propaganda, such as being the "champion of human rights", or, the "best hope for mankind". People should not fall victim to this propaganda. The United States of America is what it has been throughout it's history - a nation obsessed with imperial power. Tsarist Russia also was an expansionist imperial power, but this imperialism seems to have run its course with the decline of the USSR. The USA's appetite for imperial expansion has not yet been satisfied. The American dream is to push her imperialism right up to the borders of Russia, and then begin an insidious undermining of the Russian Federation. I have held this view for sometime, and, it is predicated on my conviction that the power elite of American lust after the natural resources of Russia to feed their industries. This US power elite do not want to buy Russian resources at market prices - instead, they want to own these resources outright. My advice to Russia is to never, ever, believe that there is any "honesty" from the American side - there isn't. There is only greedy self-interest.
They have become diluted up top. This is going to blow up in their face. Drug lords have money, their own servants and black markets are always open. You have to cut off the supply.
The Russian political and military leadership are not easy to fool. They know the drug trade fuels to U.S war in Afghanistan and drug trafficking is one of the means the U.S could destabilize Russia and particular Russian volatile Caucasus region. But the U.S ruling elite are less educated and less analytical than its Russian counterpart and after Zhukov used the military discourse and disinformation and disguise to destroy the Might army of the Third Reich, one shall never doubt that by nature Russians are three or four steps always ahead of the game and they have plans to respond to U.S attempt to encircle and destabilize Russia. Now, in Russia, joining the military is still associated with patriotic honour and young men who see each May March of the Patriotic War have symbolic more than material reason to join the army. There is no similar tradition in the United States. By and large, members of the working class join the U.S military not the defend their homeland but to acquire skills and cash to pay up college tuition. These men do not wish to die. But since the Iraq war things got rapidly bad for the U.S military since a mercenary can potentially make in a month or so the year’s salary of the ordinary soldier. With the declining economic opportunities, young men and formersoldiers can join mercenary firms and make lot of money to take care of their families. This arrangement serves the U.S ruling elite well since mercenary are apparently can commit mass slaughter without facing the consequences. In Russia, the military economy has never deeply penetrated the overall economy and Russia still has functioning industrial base and highly educated people. So Russia can defend itself and export weapons at a much cheaper cost to the society than the United States.
Opportunity for recruiting farmers? Americans are recruiting Taliban by bombing their families with UAVs. They are overwatching the poppy production because it is a lucrative business for them. Honest disagreement? Yeah right. Cannabis is one thing.. Poppy fields are producing Heroin, the most dangerous drug in the world.