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Friday, 09 June

17:19

Why NATO-Trained Armies Lose Wars And Why Ukraine's Criminal Leaders Should Beg For Mercy "IndyWatch Feed Asia"

NATO excels at psychological warfare operations and clandestine terrorism. They win wars on television. Their main battlefields are the global airwaves and the minds of men.

But Ukraine will soon learn, as Afghanistan eventually did, NATO is not any good at actually fighting.

If Ukraine fought alone, without any NATO assistance, it would have a greater chance of defeating Russia.

There is no greater shame for a nation than to be used as a proxy in a larger war. Such an indignity has fallen on noble Ukraine. Almost a decade ago its sovereignty and national mind were illegally captured by the evil pedophiles who rule Washington and London.

Since then Ukraine been used like a blunt object to hurt Russia. It has been reduced to a mindless slave to wage a war it has no chance of winning. It has only lasted this long because of weak Russian leadership.

Russia has fought this war very patiently and sheepishly. It doesn't even call it a war. Putin keeps using the term "special military operation" for both political and legal reasons.

But regardless of what branding it uses to placate international legal bodies and the world media, it stands to gain massive pieces of Ukrainian territory at the end of this familial bloodletting. So the question has to be asked, what then? Where does the Russian march inside Ukraine stop?

If Russia doesn't seize Kiev and restore law and order it will make a grave mistake.

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08:00

Taliban successfully eradicates poppy cultivation: Report "IndyWatch Feed War"

Toor Khan (right) razing a poppy field to the ground along with fellow Taliban members. (Photo Credit BBC)

The Cradle | June 8, 2023

The Taliban government of Afghanistan has carried out truly unprecedented reductions in poppy cultivation in 2023, according to a new analysis published by Alcis, a UK-based geographic information services firm specializing in geospatial data collection, statistical analysis and visualization.

The poppy reduction followed a ban on drugs in Afghanistan issued in April 2022 by Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah, only seven months after the Islamic movement took power following the August 2021 US military withdrawal from the country.

Alcis reports that an effective ban on poppy cultivation is in place and that opium production in 2023 will be negligible compared to 2022. High resolution imagery analyzed by the firm shows that in the province of Helmand, poppy cultivation was reduced from 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023. This amounts to the largest reduction in poppy cultivation ever recorded in the country, including after the Taliban banned poppy production in 2000, one year before losing power following the 2001 US invasion.

As a result, wheat cultivation now dominates provinces in the south and southwest, where some 80% of Afghanistans total poppy crop had previously been grown.

The Taliban announced the ban on poppy cultivation in April 2022, but allowed the harvest of the poppy crop plant...

06:59

The Middle East and US Terrorist Activities "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Viktor Mikhin New Eastern Outlook 08.06.2023

Incredibly high civilian casualty rates from American-led military adventurism in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia have been revealed in a new research by Brown Universitys The Cost of War Project in the State of Rhode Island. The report provides direct data on the victims of the war in which nearly a million people were killed by the US efforts.

According to the study, another important aspect that has indirectly killed several million more people is the military destruction of the economy, public services, infrastructure and the environment, which increases the death toll long after the bombs have been dropped and increases over time. The report estimates that these factors contributed to more than 3.5 million deaths. This aspect requires more research, and the project specifically emphasizes that the many long-term and underestimated consequences of war need to be explored in more detail.

Another study shows that the number of direct casualties from wars that killed nearly a million people is an understatement, which the report again refers to by saying that the exact death toll remains unknown. In another section of the projects report on the Iraqi death toll, it says that estimates of the Iraqi war death toll have been particularly inconsistent. The Lancet 2006 estimated that approximately 600,000 Iraqis died as a result of military violence between 2003 and 2006. The report goes on to say that the controversy over conflicting...

Tuesday, 06 June

20:23

Afghan MMA fighter recounts life in UAE resettlement camp "IndyWatch Feed War"

Afghan MMA fighter recounts life in UAE resettlement camp

Zaki Rasooli spent more than 18 months waiting to be taken to the US after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan

Ali M Latifi Tue, 06/06/2023 - 11:23

Zaki Rasooli fought professionally in Afghanistan, before fleeing the country upon the Taliban's takover of Kabul (Ali Latifi/MEE)

Zaki Rasooli was a professional mixed martial arts fighter in Afghanistan, before fleeing the country after the Taliban captured Kabul (MEE/Ali Latifi)

When Zaki Rasooli arrived in Abu Dhabi in October 2021, the mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter thought hed only be in the Tasameem resettlement camp for a few days before being airlifted to the United States to start a new life.

Instead, he spent 18 months in misery.

By the time he arrived in the Emirati capital, it had only been two months since the Taliban had returned to power in Afghanistan, but it was already evident to Rasooli and other evacuees that the United Arab Emirates had far surpassed the 5,000 Afghans the country said it would house until they could be resettled in a third country.

Less than a month later, Rasooli and the 3,000 other Afghans in the camp lost even more hope when Washington suspended its daily chartered flights from the UAE to the US on 7 November.

As time went on and answers became more scarce, Rasooli said the Afghan evacuees began to feel suffocated in the detention-like conditions inside the camp, which he was told should have housed no more than 2,000 people.