{"id":1774,"date":"2021-08-17T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depthtrade.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T16:57:57","slug":"defeat-in-afghanistan-a-geopolitical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/depth\/defeat-in-afghanistan-a-geopolitical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat in Afghanistan – A Geopolitical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Following the Taliban’s takeover of power in Afghanistan, which no one expected to happen at such a rapid pace (at least not inside the Biden administration), the question of the geopolitical impact on the maltreated country’s immediate neighborhood has arisen. We take a look at the current developments.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Afghanistan borders six neighboring states<\/strong>, Iran<\/strong> to the west, Pakistan<\/strong> to the east and south, the three former Central Asian Soviet republics of Turkmenistan<\/strong>, Uzbekistan<\/strong> and Tajikistan<\/strong> to the north, and the People’s Republic of China<\/strong> to the far northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us start with Pakistan, the so-called “most dangerous state in the world,” not because of its people, but because of the political instability of the nuclear power, which has far more inhabitants than Russia, flanked by high population growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Afghan Taliban have always cooperated closely with the Pakistani Taliban; indeed, they would never have been able to survive and be as effective as they have been for so long without the retreats into Pakistani territory, especially in the border region of Waziristan, over which the Pakistani government barely holds dominion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the difference between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban?<\/strong> The Pakistani Taliban has long since ceased to be composed solely of Pashtuns and has evolved into a national movement in which all ethnic groups can be found – in stark contrast to Afghanistan, where over 90 percent of the Taliban belong to the Pashtun ethnic group. The “Talibanization” of Pakistani society is well advanced, but unlike in Afghanistan, it is not taking place through territorial conquests, but through infiltration into the highest circles of the military and the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saudi Arabia financed the Taliban<\/strong> Washington would have been well advised to influence its close ally Saudi Arabia, because Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were the founders and driving forces of the Taliban regime after the withdrawal of Soviet troops. Without massive financial, ideological, and political-diplomatic support from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, there would never have been a Taliban regime in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until today, not a single Afghan could be linked to the attack of 9\/11, but therefore Saudi citizens, which did not lead to a rethinking in Washington, London or even Berlin, to at least question the relations and the armament of this reactionary kingdom. On the contrary, the rearmament of Saudi Arabia, flanked by fat dividends from the military industry, continues relentlessly, while Riyadh exports Wahhabism all over the world just like its oil. Saudi Arabia was also responsible for the financing and emergence of the Taliban from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Washington has turned its back on Pakistan and is trying to enlist India in the advance against the People’s Republic of China. In India, a Taliban takeover of the Pakistani arch-enemy would immediately lead to a military response. The consequences for Pakistan, due to the Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan, are probably the most serious for world politics.<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The Pakistani Taliban have a different social network and political objective than their allies in Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban aim to establish an Islamist system in Pakistan. They have bases in Punjab, Sindh, and other regions of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the U.S. relied on Pakistan as a close ally at the beginning of the War on Terror, relations later cooled dramatically, a trend that continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basically, the Pakistani bomb is much more dangerous than an Iranian one ever would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n