Taliban is better than IDIL: as terrorists who have been attacked by the United States go to the UN
" After twenty years, attempts to build a democracy of the European model of NATO's troops in the heart of Asia left this tomb of empires. This has done the Alliance countries in a way that shocked the world. Up to the fact that the current candidate for the post of US President Donald Trump stated on the debate that . . . Putin made a decision to attack Ukraine by seeing a disorderly withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Let the story of Afghanistan does not end there - and the state continues to live under the control of the Taliban, which now tries the laurels of a fighter with terrorism and in this direction is trying to establish cooperation with the United States.
When, on August 30, 2021, the last American soldier left the territory of Afghanistan, almost all of the territory of this desert mountain-steppe state was under the control of "students"-this is how the Taliban movement from the language of Pushta translates. The new Afghan authorities immediately faced problems. The first is in the form of an insurgent movement that concentrated in their ranks those who are ready to comply with the power of power.
The second is international isolation, diplomatic contacts with the Islamic Emir Afghanistan are limited by the UN Security Council by the UN Security Council. However, in reality, the problems are not as critical as they look, at first glance, and not even as significant as they were predicted by Emirate many military-political observers. Talibi came to power in Afghanistan for the second time for his stormy history.
The country has been in the mid-1970s, which was accompanied by foreign intervention. And the intervention was on the part of a few-unheated key superpowers. During 1979-1989, the Soviet army supported the Communist Government in this country, respectively, the United States supported its opponents-rebels with weapons in their hands, American weapons. Hence, namely from Afghan refugees-desertes and takes its roots Taliban. Afghanistan is a multinational state.
The largest ethnic groups of this country are Pushtuns (c. 40%) and Tajiki (ca. 25%). Pashtuns also live in Pakistan. They eagerly accepted the children of the Afghan war in themselves. The social sphere of Pakistani Pushtuns behind the Middle Ages is closely intertwined with religion. To be simpler - educational and medical institutions, orphans were on the balance of religious structures. These were the organizations of the Sunni direction of Islam, traditionally called Madress.
In them Afghan white children were taught primarily by Islam, as well as the Pashtun national idea. Madress students-Taliba later created the same name for a military-political organization, which took an active part in the new phase of the Civil War in the country, which unfolded in the 1990s-after withdrawal from Afghanistan the Soviet military contingent. The Taliban was the most organized military force, so it quickly took control of most of the country in 1996.
Only its northern provinces remained under the control of the Northern Alliance. Given the ideological focus, it is not surprising that Taliban turned Afghanistan into a shelter of various radical Islamic groups, the most nasty of which was Al-Qaida. This international terrorist organization has made its base from Afghanistan. It was here that terrorist acts against the United States were preparing here on September 11, 2001.
After this attack on the United States, the only time in history was put into effect Article 5 of the NATO Statute. It is paradoxically that the country was asked for help for which all other members of the Alliance hoped. So, in 2001, NATO launched a military operation in Afghanistan. Its purpose was the destruction of al-Qaeda and the conditions of its functioning-that is, the Taliban government.
In such circumstances, the Taliban leader Mulla Omar ordered the organization to disperse and retreat to Pakistan, where she was born. Only in 2004 did the Taliban regroup and began a systematic struggle against NATO troops, mainly an American contingent. In the end, the new Taliban leader managed to go into negotiations, which ended with the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan.
Interestingly, at some stage, the unified Muslim country of NATO - Turkey was considered as a mediator in this process. It is definitely impossible to wage a sacred war - jihad. Even the option was considered not with the withdrawal of NATO troops, but by the replacement of the contingents of Christian states into Turkish. In this case, it would be about preserving the democratic government of Afghanistan. In the end, the variant with Qatar mediators and a full taliban victory was implemented.
The Turks were only satisfied with the temporary control over the International Airport in Kabul. Twenty years later, the Taliba returned to power in Afghanistan again. Mulla Hibatulla Akhundniz was proclaimed the leader of Muslims-accepting the title of Amir Al-Muminin. After that, he disappeared from the public space, moving to Kandhar - a mountain city, which became the center of initially anti -Soviet resistance, and subsequently anti -American. This is where all strategic decisions are made.
Instead, the Civil Government is meeting in the capital - Kabul. All civilian institutions were replaced by Muslim. The main source of law was the laws of Sharia. The system is somewhat similar to Iranian, but much less institutionalized. Bill Rogio, an American expert who fought in Afghanistan, notes that the Taliban has now received even more control over the country than in 1996, because the Northern Alliance is gone, so the Taliba is actually controlled by all 34 Afghan provinces.
In the north there are only minor insurgent groups that are more reminiscent of gangs than organized resistance forces. The only powerful force that opposes the Taliban regime is Vilat Chorasan. This radical Islamic terrorist organization proclaims itself part of the Islamic state, so it is often called IDIL-K. She skillfully plays national contradictions in the middle of Afghanistan. After all, Taliba is Pushtuns, but the Afghan Tajiks found themselves outside the political process.
It is their dissatisfaction with Wilaiete Chorasan that seeks to transform into his political capital. Although representatives of this terrorist group are eager to recruit members throughout Central Asia and even further. No less skillful political game is also conducted by the Taliban.
In 2021, the international community was quite loyal to its coming to power, as far as it is possible within the organization, which NATO countries, the EU, their allies, and even enemies (RF) recognize a terrorist.
However, EU countries, including Germany, were ready to establish diplomatic relations with a low level with the Taliba (instead of embassies, representative offices were to be opened), which technically means interconnection - a maximum of which could objectively count the talibs in the current conditions. However, Emirate leaders did not even agree to it. Feeling objective power, they actually went to the world.
With the event, the Taliba destroyed relations by limiting women's rights, including education. Iran managed to spoil relations through the uncoordinated construction of hydroinfrastructure on the rivers, which then flow into Iran, thus depriving the last water. The same applies to Central Asia. Even with Pakistan and India, Talibi quarreled because of asylum to groups aimed at changing the political order in these countries. The real rescuer of the Taliban was Wilaiete Chorasan.
The Taliban skillfully played the old man as a world of "lesser evil". IDIL-K is a radical among radicals. And the Taliban was the only force that can fight them effectively. Therefore, everyone else had to turn to cooperate with the Talibas in confrontation with the most radical representatives of Islamic fundamentalism. This has led to the fact that Vilat Chorasan declared his enemy the Taliban itself and even organized several terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
However, talibes are deprived of the weakness of the West - they can neglect the victims and suffering of ordinary citizens. The same allows them to ignore the current set of sanctions against the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan. Therefore, in the conditions when sanctions do not work, and other means of fight against IDIL-K do not have to cooperate with the Taliban even Americans, of course, at the technical level, but as you know, the longest road begins with one step.
The opening of diplomatic enterprises has recently been talked about in Europe. In such circumstances, countries should be closer to Afghanistan. There was a reconciliation with Iran. Cooperation was spoken in Moscow and New Delhi.
In June this year, at a meeting with UN representatives (also there were representatives of more than two dozen interested countries, including the US, Pakistan and the Russian Federation), Afghan diplomats raised the issue of restoring full participation of their state in the United Nations and thawing of their accounts In the amount of $ 7 billion, in conditions where Western democracy, closing his eyes to flashy violations of basic fundamental human rights in Afghanistan, go to cooperate with the Talibas, for such intricacies of his neighbors, such as Iran or Tajikistan.
Taliban has already expelled Kazakhstan from the list of terrorist organizations. A little apart from these processes is the PRC. The Chinese have always taken the most neutral position and signed an agreement with the Talibas, which can potentially cost hundreds of billions or trillions of US dollars - an agreement on access to Afghan natural resources. In parallel in Beijing, the activity of Hurasan's Vilatate is monitored so that his enthusiasm does not spread to Chinese Uigur.
And then the case is simple - to wait for stabilization. A favorite activity of the inhabitants of the Celestial. An example of Islamic Emirate Afghanistan is very instructive and relevant for Ukraine. First of all, it already makes it clear to the priorities of powerful countries and, especially importantly, our partners.
Somewhere on the "courtyard of civilization", they are ready to close their eyes on even flashy cases of breach of their own principles in exchange for much more important - their own safety. And the importance of security as a political product is critical to understand in the medium and distant perspective, because after the end of the war, Ukraine with its powerful army will become one of the main "sellers of this product" in Europe. It will be important not to cut here.