NATO: apply to the Afghan army
Last week it became known that NATO Secretary General Mr. Rasmussen made a proposal to participate in the financing of the Afghan armed forces of those countries that today are not part of the North Atlantic Alliance. Among these countries, Andres Fogh Rasmussen sees the Russian Federation. He is confident that it will be financial contributions to the Afghan army after the withdrawal of the NATO contingent will be the key to a safe future in this country, and hence in the entire region. In addition, Rasmussen recalled that the member states of the Alliance themselves are going to be “dumped” annually and sent to Kabul, not a lot is not a little, 4 billion dollars. Recalling such a sum, the Secretary General indirectly hints at the figure that it would be nice to introduce, for example, Russia as a guarantee of its own security.
The Rasmussen initiative seems to focus exclusively on caring for the Afghan people and, most importantly, the Afghan peasants who produce raw materials for the world-famous business. That is why the NATO Supreme can be thankful for the thought about allocating round sums by Russia and other countries, but it’s better to give up such an idea - and the sooner the better.
In order for Anders Fogh Rasmussen and all his like-minded people not to say that to reject their constructive proposal is true retrograde and unwillingness to establish a peaceful life in Afghanistan, concrete arguments must be made.
Imagine that in the 2014 year, the NATO contingent is really leaving Afghanistan, while promising that with funding for the armed forces of this country, all issues are settled and Karzai (or his changer) will only have to check bills and remove billions of dollars from them so that Afghan soldiers felt the support of Big Brother. Perhaps, somewhere it could well work - the state army improved, added in training, equipment and combat capability, but with respect to Afghanistan such prospects look more than vague.
To continue the analysis, it’s worth moving back to 1989, the year when Soviet troops left Afghanistan. It would seem that the "hated" opponent was retreating, which means that she is a victory, and a new, serene life can begin. But no ... In Afghanistan, a civil war broke out with even greater force, which left government forces on both sides of the font led by Mohammad Najibullah and the so-called Afghan Mujahideen led by Ahmad Shah Masoud. A huge amount of military equipment remaining, say, a legacy from the Soviet Union, was actively used by both parties. At the same time, one should not forget about Western “help”, as a result of which Mujahideen units could conduct active hostilities with well-armed government forces and pro-government militias. According to the most conservative estimates in the civil war of 1989-1992, about one and a half thousand were used tanks, up to 1000 armored personnel carriers, over a hundred combat aircraft and helicopters, as well as countless missile systems, mortars, grenade launchers and small arms weapons. This is the question of financing the Afghan army ...
Not a single statistical agency can say about the losses at this stage of the Afghan war, since in Afghanistan itself no counting of dead and wounded soldiers from both sides was actually made. The following remarkable fact can tell about the possible total number of victims: during the so-called Jalalabad battle of 1989, only from the Mujahideen were killed and injured more than 3-x thousand people.
Now it is worthwhile to touch upon the financing of the Afghan army at a time when the Soviet Union was still involved in the war (1979-1989 years). The Soviet Union itself only for the “middle” period of the war (from 1984 to 1987 a year), according to published data, spent about 1,686 billions of so-called foreign currency rubles to support the Afghan army. In the period from 1979 to 1990, over the 8 billions of foreign exchange rubles were allocated and spent from the USSR treasury for the following purposes: training of Afghan military and civilian personnel, preferential loans for various areas of the Afghan national economy, the purchase of military equipment and general equipment, for construction schools and hospitals, as well as the so-called free aid to the Afghan people, which, obviously, mostly settled in the accounts of high-ranking managers. So, more than 8 billion Soviet rubles were transferred to the development of Afghanistan ... What this development ended with, we all know very well.
By the way, let's not forget that not only the Soviet Union, but also its direct competitors invested in Afghanistan. The same forces of the Mujahideen by the anti-Soviet allies (USA, Japan, Gulf countries, Pakistan, European states, Canada, etc.) from 1980 to 1987 were allocated about 1,8 a billion dollars a year.
As a result of a three-year civil war, the Afghan Mujahideen overthrew the country's communist government, and then a new civil war broke out, in which the Mujahideen themselves began to divide power among themselves. As a result of this stage of the war in 1994, the world brings to light, to say the least, the notorious Taliban movement today, which actually gained full control over Afghanistan by the time NATO operations began in that country.
Today story obviously repeated. The NATO troops are already planning to leave Afghanistan, leaving the pro-Western government in the country and setting up very generous funding for this. Obviously, the withdrawal of the NATO contingent will automatically begin the revitalization of the Islamists, who will try not only to reset Western henchmen from their posts (and most likely they will succeed in recalling 1992 a year), but also to gain control over the money, which Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls for to invest in the Afghan army.
By the way, it must be recalled that the NATO Secretary General is calling on not only Russia, but also the countries of the Persian Gulf to share money for the Afghan government forces. But such a proposal looks very unintelligible. Does Rasmussen think that those who so actively support the Taliban will suddenly begin to finance their opponents from the so-called regular army. It is obvious that the same Qatari and Saudi curators of Afghan and world Islamism are not at all profitable for a powerful government army to emerge in Afghanistan that surpasses the strength of the Taliban formation.
In this regard, it can be said that the NATO command unequivocally gives out the desired for the real. Any funding from the Afghan forces, no matter how loyal to secular social laws they may seem, will dissolve into internal strife that has become the norm for Afghanistan. It is unlikely that Rasmussen and other supporters of the idea of financing the Afghan army after the withdrawal of the NATO contingent are not aware of this. And if they know, then their proposal is more like an attempt to establish a channel for money laundering under the guise of "fraternal" assistance.
I am glad that the Russian authorities have already refused such an offer by the NATO Secretary General. Still, history teaches us a lot, so that no one talks about it. Let's hope that she will teach the Alliance with its zeal to help Afghanistan ...
The Rasmussen initiative seems to focus exclusively on caring for the Afghan people and, most importantly, the Afghan peasants who produce raw materials for the world-famous business. That is why the NATO Supreme can be thankful for the thought about allocating round sums by Russia and other countries, but it’s better to give up such an idea - and the sooner the better.
In order for Anders Fogh Rasmussen and all his like-minded people not to say that to reject their constructive proposal is true retrograde and unwillingness to establish a peaceful life in Afghanistan, concrete arguments must be made.
Imagine that in the 2014 year, the NATO contingent is really leaving Afghanistan, while promising that with funding for the armed forces of this country, all issues are settled and Karzai (or his changer) will only have to check bills and remove billions of dollars from them so that Afghan soldiers felt the support of Big Brother. Perhaps, somewhere it could well work - the state army improved, added in training, equipment and combat capability, but with respect to Afghanistan such prospects look more than vague.
To continue the analysis, it’s worth moving back to 1989, the year when Soviet troops left Afghanistan. It would seem that the "hated" opponent was retreating, which means that she is a victory, and a new, serene life can begin. But no ... In Afghanistan, a civil war broke out with even greater force, which left government forces on both sides of the font led by Mohammad Najibullah and the so-called Afghan Mujahideen led by Ahmad Shah Masoud. A huge amount of military equipment remaining, say, a legacy from the Soviet Union, was actively used by both parties. At the same time, one should not forget about Western “help”, as a result of which Mujahideen units could conduct active hostilities with well-armed government forces and pro-government militias. According to the most conservative estimates in the civil war of 1989-1992, about one and a half thousand were used tanks, up to 1000 armored personnel carriers, over a hundred combat aircraft and helicopters, as well as countless missile systems, mortars, grenade launchers and small arms weapons. This is the question of financing the Afghan army ...
Not a single statistical agency can say about the losses at this stage of the Afghan war, since in Afghanistan itself no counting of dead and wounded soldiers from both sides was actually made. The following remarkable fact can tell about the possible total number of victims: during the so-called Jalalabad battle of 1989, only from the Mujahideen were killed and injured more than 3-x thousand people.
Now it is worthwhile to touch upon the financing of the Afghan army at a time when the Soviet Union was still involved in the war (1979-1989 years). The Soviet Union itself only for the “middle” period of the war (from 1984 to 1987 a year), according to published data, spent about 1,686 billions of so-called foreign currency rubles to support the Afghan army. In the period from 1979 to 1990, over the 8 billions of foreign exchange rubles were allocated and spent from the USSR treasury for the following purposes: training of Afghan military and civilian personnel, preferential loans for various areas of the Afghan national economy, the purchase of military equipment and general equipment, for construction schools and hospitals, as well as the so-called free aid to the Afghan people, which, obviously, mostly settled in the accounts of high-ranking managers. So, more than 8 billion Soviet rubles were transferred to the development of Afghanistan ... What this development ended with, we all know very well.
By the way, let's not forget that not only the Soviet Union, but also its direct competitors invested in Afghanistan. The same forces of the Mujahideen by the anti-Soviet allies (USA, Japan, Gulf countries, Pakistan, European states, Canada, etc.) from 1980 to 1987 were allocated about 1,8 a billion dollars a year.
As a result of a three-year civil war, the Afghan Mujahideen overthrew the country's communist government, and then a new civil war broke out, in which the Mujahideen themselves began to divide power among themselves. As a result of this stage of the war in 1994, the world brings to light, to say the least, the notorious Taliban movement today, which actually gained full control over Afghanistan by the time NATO operations began in that country.
Today story obviously repeated. The NATO troops are already planning to leave Afghanistan, leaving the pro-Western government in the country and setting up very generous funding for this. Obviously, the withdrawal of the NATO contingent will automatically begin the revitalization of the Islamists, who will try not only to reset Western henchmen from their posts (and most likely they will succeed in recalling 1992 a year), but also to gain control over the money, which Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls for to invest in the Afghan army.
By the way, it must be recalled that the NATO Secretary General is calling on not only Russia, but also the countries of the Persian Gulf to share money for the Afghan government forces. But such a proposal looks very unintelligible. Does Rasmussen think that those who so actively support the Taliban will suddenly begin to finance their opponents from the so-called regular army. It is obvious that the same Qatari and Saudi curators of Afghan and world Islamism are not at all profitable for a powerful government army to emerge in Afghanistan that surpasses the strength of the Taliban formation.
In this regard, it can be said that the NATO command unequivocally gives out the desired for the real. Any funding from the Afghan forces, no matter how loyal to secular social laws they may seem, will dissolve into internal strife that has become the norm for Afghanistan. It is unlikely that Rasmussen and other supporters of the idea of financing the Afghan army after the withdrawal of the NATO contingent are not aware of this. And if they know, then their proposal is more like an attempt to establish a channel for money laundering under the guise of "fraternal" assistance.
I am glad that the Russian authorities have already refused such an offer by the NATO Secretary General. Still, history teaches us a lot, so that no one talks about it. Let's hope that she will teach the Alliance with its zeal to help Afghanistan ...
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