Random and related stuff that might help make sense of the next few days, weeks and months as the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.
(1) The Muslim Brotherhood. Already reports from Qatar that MB leadership is heading back into Afghanistan. This is predictable. The Muslim Brotherhood is the political umbrella for authentic Islam (ie. extremists). The Brotherhood supports the al-Qaeda regional affiliates including the Taliban, al-Nusra, and others. Qatar is the financial center of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Brotherhood is political Islam.
(2) China. Most people don’t realize that China shares a common border with Afghanistan and has issues with Islamic extremists and sympathizers. China has benefited from the U.S. in Afghanistan keeping the Taliban in check. A U.S. retreat now means China needs to engage with the Taliban to bolster their national security interests. China will establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban partly because Beijing uses duplicitous diplomacy as a strategy. [It ain’t because China likes the Taliban]
(3) Turkey. Unfortunately for Europe, Turkey is both a NATO member (stupid decision) and aligned in common cause with the Muslim Brotherhood. Turkish President Recep Erdogan has previously given safe harbor to the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood upon their exit from Qatar, when the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain) demanded Qatar stop supporting terrorists (the Brotherhood).
The EU will not want to recognize the Taliban, but Turkey most certainly will… regardless of what the EU wants, because Erdogan is aligned with extremist Islam. Europe is weak and always ends up acquiescing to the threats of Turkey; so don’t look for much other than pearl clutching from NATO members about it.
(4) Europe. As noted above, the EU doesn’t support Islamic extremism; however, the EU is now infiltrated with Islamic extremism, and the EU is too worried about cultural sensitivities to do anything about it. They will likely try another round of multiculturalism advocacy, which will likely end just like the last time with fracture and cultural crisis because the Islamic extremists attack, murder and rape too many EU people. It will be a mess again.
(5) Pakistan. The Pakistani government is already aligned in common purpose with the Taliban, and have been supporting them under the table the entire time the U.S. was in Afghanistan (See UBL compound etc). China has invested heavily in Pakistan and created reasonably strong ties. China needs the assistance of Pakistan to help leverage their need for regional national security from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
(6) Russia. Oddly Russia and the EU have the same outlook toward the Taliban in Afghanistan. However, where the EU is twisted in pretzel knots of political correctness, Russia is not. Look for Russian President Vladimir Putin to exploit his own interests in the EU via strength and a closer relationship. How? Because Russia can keep the Taliban and Turkey in check if the NATO members are blackmailed by Afghanistan and Erdogan.
*Note – NATO was formed to keep Russia in check…. and now we will likely watch Russia helping NATO keep their step-child, Turkey, in check. How’s that for some geopolitical irony?
Summary: Qatar (Muslim Brotherhood) will help the Taliban (al-Qaeda). China will form tenuous and conniving ties with the Taliban, likely relying on economics. Turkey will support the Taliban and look for help, eventually, to assist Erdogan re-attain the Ottoman Empire he lusts. The EU is stuck between Russia and a hard place (Turkey), and will likely end up on team Putin.
Joe Biden will eat jello…. and the leftists in the U.S. State Department will run to their proverbial Alamo, The United Nations.
Wait for it…
Too bad BUSH never finished the job. However, trying to civilize an islamic country was NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. Heck, they have been worshipping a mass murderer for over 1400 years. They are uneducated, have NO LEADERSHIP and are as CORRUPT as the Washington DISTRICT of CORRUPTION. Only when islam is destroyed will countries and the world become more civilized. The marxists and islamists must all be defeated or the world is doomed.
Here’s a note for ALL you bastards and elected representatives in DC.
The Taliban didn’t have F-15’s or nukes. They had 2o years.
“Taliban is surging in and taking it all back. They were always going to do this, because they have a thing you cannot buy or train, they have patience and a bloody-mindedness that warrants more respect than we ever gave them.”
https://laurajedeed.medium.com/afghanistan-meant-nothing-9e3f099b00e5
Federal and State governments impose its will on us. Made hostage our liberties. Learn the lessen from the Taliban. If it takes 20 years then their fate will be the same as the Afghan people.
Most of the politicians of Western Europe should be rounded up to spend the rest of their lives in Afghan prisons. I’d like to see the look on Angela Merkel’s face knowing that her retirement was going to be spent in an Afghan women’s prison washing the underwear of Taliban with a washing board or the look on Boris Johnson’s face when he realized that the rest of his life was to be eating rice, water with the occasional broth made from goat meat when he wasn’t being beaten by a jailer. Afghanistan could have a thriving economy being the worlds prison, every western nation could pay them to lock up the useless politicians who have betrayed us.
Many would be stoned, thrown from buildings with missing body parts, or shortened …
Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary for the Obama administration, said the following about “Not All There” Joe,
“I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
“As soon as we leave our compound, it’s clear who is now in charge,” Ward stated in a report. “Taliban fighters have flooded the capital. Smiling and victorious, they took this city of 6 million people in a matter of hours — barely firing a shot. This is a sight I honestly thought I would never see: scores of Taliban fighters, and just behind us, the U.S. embassy compound. Some carry American weapons. They tell us they’re here to maintain law and order.”
CNN showed a clip of members of the Taliban holding guns up in the air and chanting.
“They’re just chanting, ‘Death to America,’ but they seem friendly at the same time,” Ward advised. “It’s utterly bizarre.”
CNN’s Ward: Taliban ‘Chanting ‘Death to America’ but They Seem Friendly at the Same Time’ (breitbart.com)
“Turkey will support the Taliban and look for help, eventually, to assist Erdogan re-attain the Ottoman Empire he lusts“
Agree, but Erdogan may find that this emboldens new challengers for that position.