Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser in 1979 Sometimes it is useful to reread old digests. More then ten years ago former US President National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski frankly spoke to French Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998. According to him, the CIA’s intervention in Afghanistan […]
Afghanistan
NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields
Trend (Azerbaijan) NATO and Russia clashed on Wednesday, March 24 over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where Western nations have been fighting a Taliban-led insurgency for eight years. The country is the world’s largest producer of poppy seeds, a key ingredient in the manufacture of heroin. Russia […]
Russia and the Counterterrorist Operation in Afghanistan. Part III
Alexander Sotnichenko Part 1 Part 2 Russia and the EU: the search for common ground on Afghanistan On January 18, 2008, Russian Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov and European Parliament member Pino Arlacchi, author of the new EU strategy for Afghanistan, held a press conference at which the […]
Russia and the Counterterrorist Operation in Afghanistan. Part II
Alexander Sotnichenko Part 1 Russian criticism of the NATO operation in Afghanistan In fact, from our point of view the problem lies in different area. In Russia more and more senior government officials are trying to cast doubt on the idea that NATO’s counterterrorism operation is consistent with the interests […]
Russia and the Counterterrorist Operation in Afghanistan. Part I
Alexander Sotnichenko The operation by international forces in Afghanistan under NATO auspices began in October 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks in the United States committed on Sep 11, 2001. By December 2001, the North Atlantic Alliance had received support from the UN Security Council as a guarantor of […]
The United States and Afghan Heroin
In January 18, 2010, Viktor Ivanov, Chairman of the State Anti-Drug Committee and Director of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), along with European Parliament member Pino Arlacchi, held a press conference at the press center of the All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. They talked about the fight against […]
The Failure of the “AFPAK” Strategy
Aleksandr Terentyev, Jr. The large-scale operation by the Pakistani Army in South Waziristan and the proposed increase in size of the American military forces in Afghanistan are seen by many as a turning point in the fight against the Taliban, which will henceforth be forced to fight on two fronts. […]
Brigadier Amir Sultan Tarar: “NATO forces doomed in Afghanistan”
Russia Today NATO forces are not willing to fight and their mission in Afghanistan is doomed, said Brigadier AMIR SULTAN TARAR, believed to have played a key role in the formation of the Taliban. ”Afghanis take courage in defending their country and that is what they are doing today,” he […]
Victor Korgun: “The Soviet Union Tried to Refrain from Sending Troops to Afghanistan”
What were the relations between the USSR and Afghanistan in the 1970s? Was the April Revolution unexpected? Was there another way? We discussed the political aspects of the situation that led to the Soviet engagement into Afghanistan with VICTOR KORGUN, head of the Afghan section of the Institute of Oriental […]
Alexander Knyazev: Chaos as an Instrument of Control
Who is “squeezing” the Taliban out into the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, and why are they doing it? The situation in Afghanistan today is no longer simply alarming, as we have been accustomed to saying for the last several decades. It is critical. Kyrgyz Slavic University Professor ALEXANDER […]
Afghanistan: Two Wars
Ruslan Nadezhdin The common international viewpoint on the modern history of Afghanistan generally states that two great powers are repeatedly invading the suffering land at the very heart of Eurasia for at least 30 years (unless rolling back to XIX century). The Soviet presence there in 1979-1989 is mainly regarded […]
The Geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan
William Engdahl One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be […]
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