ConflictWatch Feed Afghanistan

ConflictWatch Afghanistan Feed Archiver

Go Back:30 Days | 7 Days | 2 Days | 1 Day

ConflictWatch Afghanistan Feed Today.

Go Forward:1 Day | 2 Days | 7 Days | 30 Days

ConflictWatch Afghanistan Feed was generated at Central Asia ConflictWatch.

Monday, 12 June

14:02

Mike Pence The Neocon GOP Presidential Candidate "IndyWatch Feed World"

Former Vice President Mike Pence plans to run in the 2024 US Presidential Election with the goal of pushing the nation into a global conflict. Part of his rhetoric is bashing former President Trump for having diplomatic relations with Russia, despite working under him for four years. If elected, Pence said he plans to offer unlimited support to Ukraine to defeat Russia.

Pence criticized Bidens handling of the war. Unlike DeSantis and Trump who criticized Biden for abandoning America First policies and providing Ukraine with a blank check, Pence believes Biden has not done enough to fight Russian aggression. Biden has been slow in providing military resources to Ukraine, Pence stated in a recent CNN town hall interview. At this point, the only thing America has not offered Ukraine is troops directly on the ground. He wants to completely end all diplomatic ties with Russia and expel all Russian diplomats from America.

Although Mike Pence never served in the military, he has spoken at West Point numerous times and told the troops to prepare to fight his coming wars. The Washington Post released an article in 2019 entitled Mike Pence Predicts War Everywhere in a Few Years. Here is the alarming speech he gave at West Point in May of that year:

It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen. Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region. Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.

And when that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of the guns and do your duty, and you will fight, and you will win. The American people expect nothing less.

So, wherever youre called, I urge you to take what you learned here and put it into practice. Put your armor on, so that when  not if  that day comes, youll be able to stand your ground.

So this man basically said to prepare for Worl...

Sunday, 11 June

16:10

The West Stays Behind The Trenches While Spurring On Ukraine's Death March "IndyWatch Feed Asia"

Source: Getty Images.

The Western media's cynical ballooning of Ukraine's hopes, saying it can win a war against Russia, is completely diabolical.

Militarily and economically Ukraine stands no chance. China backing Canada to march on Washington a second time would have better odds.

When was the last war Ukraine fought? What is their army made of? When in their short history have they defeated a foe that would give them the confidence to take on an entire civilization on its doorstep? It's ridiculous.

This war is tragic and absurd.

The neocons in the United States bear the ultimate responsibility for this moral and geopolitical disaster, having been the ideological fathers of Russophobia in the post Cold War era, but European leaders and governments also share the blame.

The West in their hands has sunk politically, morally, culturally, and economically. Engaging in proxy warfare, using entire nations as a means to an end, is what a culturally sick, militarily weak, and morally depraved empire does as it teeters towards the dustbin of history. Look to the 7th century for a couple of examples.

The Western obsession with Russia has led to countless examples of tragedies and needless human suffering. If it was not for the British slicing India into two to thwart Russian access to the Indian Ocean at the end of WWII the horrors of partition would not have come about.

The political Islamization of Afghanistan and Iran would also not have happened if the United States did not determine in the 1970s that the Soviet Union was a greater enemy than sects of fanatical Muslims.

Point to anywhere on the map, in any period of modern history, and you'll find case after case of how the irrational Western hatred for Russia has led to political destabilization, humanitarian disaster, and long-term conflict.

Ukraine is just their latest victim.

04:29

Taliban sharply reduces opium cultivation in Afghanistan "IndyWatch Feed World"

The Taliban appears to have sharply reduced opium cultivation in Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of the illicit drug. In April 2022, the militant group banned the cultivation, production, and trafficking of all illicit narcotics. Annual opium cultivation has dropped by as much as 80 percent compared to last year, according to new research by David Mansfield, a leading expert on Afghanistan's drugs trade who worked with Alcis, a British firm specializing in satellite analysis. Mansfield said the Taliban had "exceeded expectations and reduced poppy cultivation to levels not seen since 2001," when the militant group was ousted from power by the U.S.-led invasion. Around 80 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan comes from the southern province of Helmand. Mansfield said satellite imagery appeared to show that in Helmand "poppy cultivation has fallen from more than 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023."

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.