Afghanistan... (and I intend this as a brief summary only [Wikipedia has a good, and lengthy, broad-scoped article on the country if you need to know more]) ...a land of great historical importance and antiquity, is about the same size as Ukraine used to be (well, as it was for several decades prior to the... Continue Reading →
Taliban Views
I try to write only about the most important of events. I consider this to be a worthy such subject. If there are two entities operating in the world (there are more than two, but let's stay focused), on whom are laid highly derogatory and mistaken opinions in some quarters, they would be - The... Continue Reading →
Taliban Gifted Alladin’s Cave
Life's fortunes have turned a new page for the Taliban. Time for a party. A helicopter displaying a Taliban flag fly above of supporters gathered to celebrate the US withdrawal of all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar on September 1, 2021 following the Taliban’s military takeover of the country. Taliban JAVED TANVEER /... Continue Reading →
More Deception Than Distraction?
It is fitting that the United States is led at this moment in time by a staggering corpse of a leader who more than adequately represents the state of the nation and the seeking-but-never-quite-made-it-to-empire he leads. An established empire has no enemies - until it begins to disintegrate internally. But the US has always recognised... Continue Reading →
After the Victory, comes…
Learning to run a country. The next big task for the Taliban. The easy part - getting rid of the Americans - now being over (although the door is not yet closed behind them, and it was only opened as a result of the dire condition of that nation's circumstances of slow, self-induced, self-inflicted death),... Continue Reading →
“No Shit” News
I'm sorry, I have to write this. And I thank Andrei Martyanov for the link in a recent post - It is of vast importance that these facts, whatever the future holds for mankind, go down in recorded and widely broadcast history - never to be disputed. August 16, 2021, 20: 01 Photo: Viktor Budan, Robert... Continue Reading →
Making What Sense Is Possible From A Bugger’s Muddle
I am developing a level of trust in Pepe Escobar's assessments of geopolitical movements in today's world. This current appraisal is no exception... 'A Saigon moment looms in Kabul' - Pepe Escobar for Asia Times The opaque mists of recent events will eventually settle down to some prescribed reality, of sorts. Of course nothing is... Continue Reading →
Don’t Quote Me, Yet…
Don't quote me, yet. I'm reading between the lines here. But I can see a day, perhaps not too far away, after the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia - as TASS never fails to remind whenever that name is mentioned) has taken complete control of Afghanistan, all remaining foreign Western troops have slunk away back... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 