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Pakistan's Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Gets Stronger as Army Fights Distrust
Is this the beginning of the blowback everyone had been expecting, and generals had warned of in security briefings?
Their members hail from the same region as some of the Afghan Taliban which recently freed 100 of TTP's members from prisons. TTP is trying to destabilize the government of Pakistan which is a main sponsor of the Afghan Taliban. They receive support from the US, India, and other foreign governments.
Baluchistan is where Chinas enemies are going to try their utmost to upset the cart. These TTP people may be one of the groups they will use despite what has been done to them in the past by the US.
Today's news headlines in Germany report that the last pipeline section for Nordstream 2 was welded and laid down on the Baltic Sea floor. I'm surprised after all the delays that they were able to finish the last 10 percent of the pipeline work so fast. No doubt, there was a big push to finish the job during the mild summer months. After completion of some final test work, Gazprom plans to start gas deliveries from Russia to Germany by the end of October.
Today's news headlines in Germany report that the last pipeline section for Nordstream 2 was welded and laid down on the Baltic Sea floor. I'm surprised after all the delays that they were able to finish the last 10 percent of the pipeline work so fast. No doubt, there was a big push to finish the job during the mild summer months. After completion of some final test work, Gazprom plans to start gas deliveries from Russia to Germany by the end of October.
Today's news headlines in Germany report that the last pipeline section for Nordstream 2 was welded and laid down on the Baltic Sea floor. I'm surprised after all the delays that they were able to finish the last 10 percent of the pipeline work so fast. No doubt, there was a big push to finish the job during the mild summer months. After completion of some final test work, Gazprom plans to start gas deliveries from Russia to Germany by the end of October.
I have heard days. Anyway while the laying of the lines was delayed at sea the construction of the infrastructure ashore was not. It has been simply a matter of laying pipe since most of the rest was already built.
As for the Ukronazis. They could have chose another path.
...and then Russians were reporting on British SAS people today, who were trying to get hell out of Afghanistan on the last plane, when they found themselves stuck somewhere in the Southern part of it.
Had to change in women's clothing for that, and their Afghan *companion* was making explanations for them on a check points, that "ladies are very religeous, and they want to come to Kabul to congratulate Taliban with the victory."
And now that I see what happened to Pandsher ( Massud and all,) I start thinking that may be there was a truth to a hypothesis after all, that there was a plan indeed to create a havoc on the Russian Eastern border ( as it was created on Russian Western border in Ukraine,) but something went wrong with the project.
Sorta like with the whole "Wagner group," that was supposed to be handed to Ukrainians from Belorussia ( the people from the "Wagner group," that were fighting in Donbass against the Ukr. government of course.)
The whole setup turned into the botched operation, and the Bellingcat keeps on promising to make a movie on that, with CNN apparently taking over this project, but I'll have to tell more about that one on "Ukrainian thread," since the news are coming from there on that end too...
More news coming from Afghanistan ( I'll use both sources here - Russian and Indian ones.)
This is Russia channel one reporting today;
"Talibs starting to invite foreign leaders."
"Now that the fight for Pandsher has been won (0:58 the Taliban is entering the governor's office, and then they find couple of Black Hawk helicopters , along with some lighter helicopters at the local sport stadium that the rebels were using as the landing field. ( The rebels were reporting in the social media that they were bombed from the drones (left for Taliban by the US gov. or supplied by the Pakistan - either one can be a case.)
So now that the fight for Pandsher has been won, the Taliban government is establishing the new rules/laws across the country.
Now, instead of the images of the killed rebel soldiers, we can see the Taliban giving money to them ( about $60 per person) for returning home. They lead the "educating work" among the locals, convincing them that Taliban is there to "serve their interests." ( They put the guard to the "Mausoleum of the Pandsher Lion" - the father of Massoud Junior, that it wouldn't be concecrated.
The whereabouts of Massoud Junior are unknown, as much as of the former vice president Amrullah Saleh. ( The rumour has it that he escaped to Tadjikistan, but as for Massoud Junior, ( still calling for resistance in Afghanistan,) - (looks like someone is harboring him for the "future needs" - that's my assumption.)
To the relief of many, the "women's question" - or rather the question of their education was resolved positively ( at least for now,) with them required to wear the niqab ( the full covering dress 3:52) and having a separate entrance/division in the classrooms of the universities. ( at 3:35)
At 3:27 the old decorations on the walls in the subjugated province, depicting the old important people/events are disappearing, substituted with the inscriptions of religious context, for example "The defense of Islamic system and independence take a lot of effort and patience."
The "women's question" overall is a big issue in decision whether the world leaders will accept Taliban's government or not. ( 4:34)
With the efforts of the specialists from Qatar, The Arab Emirates and Turkey, the airport functioning has been reinstated in Kabul. ( Keep this in mind, since Talibs can't function on their own in this respect.) Il- 76 of the Arab Emirates just delivered food and medical supplies in Kabul.
The Afghan international company "Arianna" reported of the plans of resuming international flights from the Kabul airport.
German chancellor Angela Merkel greeted the news of the airport reopening.
Talibs reported to German "Bild" that they are looking forward to the visit of the German Chancellor to Kabul.
They don't mind even the reopening of the American embassy in Kabul.
And they invited the leaders from the number of the countries for the ceremony of the announcement of the new government, the appointment of which they were working on for the last three weeks.
Hopefully they can get it together enough to bring about some stability in the daily lives of the people and work from there. It's not going to be easy. China has reminded them that in order for them to be able to meet the requirements of a modern civil society some things such as an uneducated and oppressed female population is not going to serve them well and they said frankly that there will be little interest in long term relations without the ENTIRE population being uplifted.
China knows it's about people power.
They also stated that not just China but the whole of Asia has significant interest in their success as a nation and people.
Hopefully they can get it together enough to bring about some stability in the daily lives of the people and work from there. It's not going to be easy. China has reminded them that in order for them to be able to meet the requirements of a modern civil society some things such as an uneducated and oppressed female population is not going to serve them well and they said frankly that there will be little interest in long term relations without the ENTIRE population being uplifted.
China knows it's about people power.
They also stated that not just China but the whole of Asia has significant interest in their success as a nation and people.
China knows that it's all about the money ( and power) of those who sit on top.
And they want those money flowing in.
And for this reason they want "stable government" in Afghanistan, so that their investments would be safe.
Oh this, and that Islamic world wouldn't question them too much on the fate of the muslim uyghurs in China.
So this is a "fair trade" in the eyes of the Chinese.
China knows that it's all about the money ( and power) of those who sit on top.
And they want those money flowing in.
And for this reason they want "stable government" in Afghanistan, so that their investments would be safe.
Oh this, and that Islamic world wouldn't question them too much on the fate of the muslim uyghurs in China.
So this is a "fair trade" in the eyes of the Chinese.
Money in exchange for "no questioning."
China doesn't want to commit military forces as much as possible. They know their investments are a target but their domestic stability is more important. The flip side is the US and Britain which want their occupied governments to be weak and unstable which attracts more terrorism. That's one of the reasons the Taliban won in Afghanistan. There is analysis hinting that the US has ties to factions in the Taliban and will try to weaken the government.
Master List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again.
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