By Santiago Vera García
According to a report printed by the British newspaper The Sun, Russian President Vladimir Putin is within the midst of a collection of negotiations with the Taliban to purchase army tools left behind by the United States in Afghanistan, in trade for cash, Russian weapons, and potential recognition of the group because the legit authorities of the Afghan nation.
According to the Telegram channel “General SVR”, Russia intends to make use of this US army {hardware} now within the fingers of the Taliban to bolster its forces in Ukraine.
“General SVR” is an nameless channel that has supplied enormous quantities of data that turned out to be true and claims to be run by a former lieutenant basic of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
According to General SVR, “Putin is overseeing negotiations with the Taliban to recognize the Taliban government” and “in return, the Russian leadership is offering a significant exchange of weapons and military equipment.”
“People initiated into the details of the negotiations say the Taliban are extremely surprised by such proposals, but they are discussing them in earnest,” he claims.
Putin had mentioned up to now that the Taliban possess sure weapons and tools, together with these seized after coming to energy in Afghanistan, that are at present in brief provide for the Russian army on the entrance strains.
THE DEPLORABLE US WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN
US troops had been rapidly withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021, after Biden gave the order for the US army to cease offering help to the then-Army of the now-defunct Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
While there was a complete challenge initiated by Trump and coordinated with the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense of the Afghan Republic for the United States to withdraw from Afghanistan in May 2021, Biden canceled the plan in April of that 12 months and created a brand new program to formally withdraw from the nation on September 11, with a potential go to of the Democrat to the Islamic nation.
This violated the pact Trump had reached with the Taliban, who had pledged to acknowledge the federal government of Ashraf Ghani in trade for the US exit from the nation, and the jihadists rapidly took up arms once more.
Under the brand new plan, US troops had been to cease offering air help in July and stop any involvement in army conflicts in August, a call that ought to have been modified following the announcement that the Taliban had been relaunching guerrilla warfare.
But the dearth of dedication of the White House to decide, certainly linked to the senile situation of Joe Biden, who ought to have had the final phrase on any such measure, the US troops needed to begin withdrawing forward of schedule due to the Taliban advance, till the fateful August 30 when the guerrillas reached the capital, Kabul.
Once once more, silence from Washington prompted troops to improvise an escape from Kabul, withdrawing first to the airport on the outskirts of town after which giving all US civilians within the nation 48 hours to succeed in the location to be extracted.
In these days, ISIS launched a suicide assault on the airport, killing 12 Marines and 100 Afghan civilians camped exterior the gates to be allowed to go away for the US with them.
The Forces finally determined to go away the nation, abandoning not less than 1,500 Americans (largely Afghans who had been granted citizenship for his or her contribution to the US effort throughout the invasion), with photographs that reminded most of the Saigon withdrawal, which passed off below a Democratic administration virtually as inept as the present one.
In this withdrawal, the US left behind a whole bunch of hundreds of firearms and ammunition, Humvees, tanks, helicopters, and different tools that remained within the fingers of the Taliban.
The Taliban fighters are believed to have saved as many as half one million US weapons and as many as 50,000 automobiles.
A Pentagon report in April 2022 estimated that the U.S. had left behind US$7 billion value of army tools in Afghanistan.
During the 20-year struggle, the United States spent an estimated US$78 billion on weapons and automobiles to equip the Afghan military as they propped up the federal government after toppling the Taliban in 2001.
US paperwork reveal {that a} staggering variety of weapons, automobiles, and army tools had been delivered to Kabul, just for Afghan forces to be swept up towards the tide of the Taliban advance.
Estimates point out that 22,174 Humvees, 634 M1117 armored vehicles, 115 Maxx Pros vans, and 549,118 machine weapons, assault rifles, and pistols had been delivered by the United States to the Afghan authorities over the previous 20 years.
In addition, some 33 Black Hawk helicopters, 23 Super Tucano fighter jets, and 4 C-130 transport plane had been additionally delivered to the Afghan Air Force.
In addition, different help tools was delivered, together with some 16,035 pairs of night time imaginative and prescient goggles, 162,043 radios, and a few 8,000 vans.
While a lot of this army tools was withdrawn throughout the Trump administration, when in July 2020 the US drive was lowered from 13,000 troops to eight,600, the overwhelming majority of US weaponry remained within the nation in its hasty withdrawal.
This information comes on the similar time that Germany authorised the cargo of Leopard tanks and the United States of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, which might result in the same state of affairs the place Russia can even entry Western weaponry in the event that they win battles towards the defending forces.
In addition, Russia this week despatched a warship armed with “unstoppable” hypersonic missiles towards the US coast in a worrisome present of drive.
The guided-missile frigate “Admiral Gorshkov” has been carefully monitored by NATO navies on its maiden voyage armed with 6,670 mph Zircon weapons.
An unconfirmed report from Russia’s Telegram channel says it was “spotted on the radar in neutral waters of the Atlantic Ocean, at an effective salvo launch distance from the US coast.”
It needs to be clarified that the nuclear-capable Mach 9 missiles on the frigate have a reported vary of 625 miles.
With data from Derecha Diario