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The Corpse of Islam, The Skeleton of Nazism, And Brzezinski's Arc of Crisis.
The deteriorating situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has Washington's fingerprints all over it.
Leaving behind billions of dollars of military hardware in the hands of terrorists was a mistake.
But that's not the beginning or end of it.
We know for certain that the criminal government in Pakistan acts under the direct orders of the ghouls in D.C. Any action from Islamabad would not be possible without Washington's approval.
Almost three years ago they pushed their democratically elected Prime Minister Khan out of office and into a jail cell on bogus charges.
Khan pissed off Washington one too many times. And besides he's guilty of other crimes. It was Khan's government that aided the Taliban in its illegal takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
It didn't take long for his interference in a neighbouring country's political destiny to backfire.
Whether Khan deserves his fate can be debated but the people of Pakistan don't.
Locking up one man can be justified, but why lock up an entire nation?
Keeping Pakistan in a military dictatorship, keeping Afghanistan under sanctions, are short-sighted policies.
Washington has sacrificed stability, freedom, and peace in South Asia to challenge Russia and China. Its imperial ambitions have resulted in nothing but destruction, warfare, tyranny, and terrorism.
The bad rulers of both Afghanistan and Pakistan were armed and empowered, directly and indirectly, by Washington for geopolitical reasons.
Once they were secret allies, now they are at loggerheads. And it was foreseeable. Military dictatorships and terrorist regimes don't like stability. They always need an enemy to fight.
But terrorists and dictators have no right to make war.
Only sovereign powers and rightful rulers can legitimately declare war.
Afghanistan is ruled by a criminal gang that did not come to power via democratic elections, tribal customs, divine authority, or any kind of popular mandate. And the same is true for Pakistan, which is a U.S.-backed military dictatorship that was created by the British and thus does not have sovereign claim over its own territory.
So the territorial conflict between the current rulers of Pakistan and Afghanistan shouldn't be classified as a war.
What we have here is two groups of criminals fighting over contested territory that was carved up by a foreign power. Who wins or who loses should not be a matter of international concern. Both sides have already lost.
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An excerpt from, "Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh Warrant UN Attention" by Jeffrey Sachs, Common Dreams, August 19, 2024:
In the case of Pakistan, Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, met with Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S., on March 7, 2022. Ambassador Khan immediately wrote back to his capital, conveying Lu’s warning that PM Khan threatened U.S.-Pakistan relations because of Khan’s “aggressively neutral position” regarding Russia and Ukraine.The Ambassador’s March 7 note (technically a diplomatic cypher) quoted Assistant Secretary Lu as follows: “I think if the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven in Washington because the Russia visit is being looked at as a decision by the Prime Minister. Otherwise, I think it will be tough going ahead.” The very next day, members of the parliament took procedural steps to oust PM Khan.On March 27, PM Khan brandished the cypher, and told his followers and the public that the U.S. was out to bring him down. On April 10, PM Khan was thrown out of office as the parliament acceded to the U.S. threat.We know this in detail because of Ambassador Khan’s cypher, exposed by PM Khan and brilliantly documented by Ryan Grim of The Intercept, including the text of the cypher. Absurdly and tragically, PM Khan languishes in prison in part over espionage charges, linked to his revealing the cypher.
