So with all the Ukraine fuss the last 2 months I couldn’t really keep up with events there the last couple of weeks. Suddenly there’s Iranian tanks moving towards the border to engage the Taliban and Pakistan has shelled Afghan territory on their shared border.
What’s up with this? What drove those escalations with their neighbors?
Both likely instances of American provocations. They pay off smaller factions inside Afghanistan to keep stirring up trouble with Iran, while at the same time they regime changed Pakistan so that the government would let them (through the US puppets in the Pakistani military) continue to launch strikes on Afghanistan and keep it perpetually destabilized and destroyed.
Only way to prevent this is if the popular uprising in Pakistan manages to force the government to call early elections and bring back a government that doesn’t lick American boots.
As for Afghanistan itself, the process of stabilizing it will be long and will require investment and security cooperation with its neighbors, particularly China.
The US of course will work as hard as it can to prevent all of that.
that or the puppets in the military gets purged somehow
You’d have to purge pretty much the whole upper echelons of the military.
yeah its more of a dream, but it would be the only way to get rid of their influence
After Pakistan’s president Imran Khan was ousted, there were those shellings from pakistan in Afghan territorry. There were also explosions in Kabul, next to a school. I didnt know anything about the attacks on pakistan territory by TTP, they are probably not very recent. The chinese press conference when asked about this escalation answered they hope the neighbours will work it out. I would guess that US are steering things in the neighbourhood only way they can. Taliban government probably cant control TTP (I dont even know what that is…). I think the point of this steering is the following:
“The change in policy carries the risk of undermining Pakistan-Taliban’s ties significantly with impact on trade links and bilateral diplomacy.” - a China’s goal.
Regarding Iran, i m thinking that Iran has all the reasons in the world not to trust the Taliban government, especially interior and defence ministries as they are most surely than not set up by the US, another Pakistan perhaps??
“Qommi said Tehran has raised the issue with the Taliban’s interior and defense ministries, stressing that the construction work should be halted and the issue be resolved within the framework of the joint border commission”
what is the joint border commission? i d guess thats an interesting project…
Can I get a few sources so I’m up to date on this? I need to remember not to focus on the ukraine war so much.
Fighting between TTP and Pakistan
Don’t know much more than this other than a couple of random tweets and telegram messages about these conflicts, but would like to know more about the reasons for these escalations.
Iran seems to be just average border stabilization, and some lack of communication and coordination. Iran also seems to be opening up relations with the Taliban government. Pakistan on the other hand seems to be of actual concern. Full military excursions into Afghanistan including air strikes. I hope they smooth over relations soon. It seems to mostly be a taliban problem, since they are harboring the Pakistan sector of the Taliban.
