3 Realities You Arent Being Told About AfghanistanBy Ulson Gunnar The US Department of Defense published General Nicholsons full briefing titled, Department of Defense Press Briefing by General Nicholson in the Pentagon Briefing Room. In it, three truths in particular emerged. The briefing paradoxically claimed that Americas proxy regime in Kabul it has attempted to prop up for the past 15 years is gaining strength and independence from US-NATO assistance, even as US Marines prepared to deploy back to Afghanistans Helmand province for what the Pentagon announced will be years more of US troop rotations. The Washington Post in an article titled, Thousands of Marines fought in southern Afghanistan. Now, the service is going back, would report that: About 300 Marines with a unit called Task Force Southwest will deploy, advising the Afghan armys 215th Corps and Afghan national police with the 505th Zone. The forces will work in part from a large Afghan installation known during earlier Marine operations as Camp Leatherneck, but will be based in other locations and could face combat, senior Marine officers said Friday. The Post would also report: Senior Marine officials did not say why the service will take over the mission in Helmand, but it is expected that there could be several rotations of Marine task forces there in coming years. In other words, promises of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, promises that formed the foundation of political campaign promises for years, were made in vain with US troops facing an unending, futile commitment to occupying the Central Asian state for years to come, just as US troops did in Vietnam during the 1960s-1970s. Likewise, claims by military commanders and US policymakers that Afghanistans government is becoming increasingly independent defies even the most basic admissions the US military and government themselves provide in terms of statistics and US troop deployment schedules. Like the now non-existent South Vietnamese government, the current Afghan government cannot sustain itself without a significant foreign presence, because despite the immense amount of monetary, military and political resources poured into it, it lacks legitimacy in Afghanistan itself where it matters most. General Nicholsons briefing also revealed that the military assets US taxpayers have provided Washingtons proxy regime in Kabul will essentially be rendered void since most of them depend on Russian parts and maintenance assistance no longer available under Washingtons ever-expanding sanctions targeting Moscow. General Nicholson, in response to a question during the briefing, would state: the Afghans traditionally had a core of MI-17 pilots who were trained on the airframe and some of them very experienced. So early before Crimea, Ukraine, before sanctions, there was international support for continuing with Russian-made airframes. That all changed after 2014 and after those sanctions were imposed. So the issue now is the sustainment of that of that fleet to continue while we field a new fleet. President Obama forwarded to the Hill a request and the supplemental for purchase of UH-60 alpha model helicopters. So these helicopters will be modified with an improved drivetrain transmission so to enable them to operate better in the environment up there. But it will involve a transition for the pilots. This means fleets of Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters Afghan forces have used for years will be replaced by US-made Sikorsky (owned by defense giant Lockheed Martin) UH-60 Black Hawks. With this move, not only will pilots have to be retrained to fly the Black Hawks, but part inventories, airport infrastructure, supply chains, ground crew training and all other aspects necessary to sustain the Black Hawks will have to be established and maintained as well. In essence, US taxpayers find themselves paying twice for helicopter transport capabilities with the Black Hawks costing drastically more the entire plan costing hundreds of millions of dollars more according to Reuters to support an Afghan military already struggling just to survive. During General Nicholsons briefing, he claimed that the US presence in Afghanistan persisted in order to defeat Al Qaeda and the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS). However, it was clear that listening to his briefing, that the US-backed proxy regime in Kabuls primary threat was the Taliban. General Nicholson berated Pakistan, Russia and Iran for what he claimed was their collective malign influence within Afghanistan. In particular, he condemned Russian and Iran for lending legitimacy to the Taliban. General Nicholson would claim: Russia has overtly lent legitimacy to the Taliban. And their narrative goes something like this: that the Taliban are the ones fighting Islamic State, not the Afghan government. However, General Nicholson strategically omits the fact that the US and some of its closest allies in the Middle East have lent the Taliban legitimacy as well, with the US attempting to negotiate with the group and its ally Qatar allowing the Taliban to open what is for all intents and purposes an embassy in Doha, Qatars capital. UK newspaper, The Times, in a 2011 article titled, Taliban office in Qatar approved by US, would report that: The US has given its blessing for the Taliban to be brought in from the cold with a critical step towards reconciliation as the world paused to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Washington has endorsed plans for the Islamist network to open political headquarters in the gulf state of Qatar by the end of the year. The move has been devised so the West can begin formal peace talks with the Taliban. More recently, the US State Departments Voice of America media platform in a December 2016 article titled, Taliban Seeks Recognition for Qatar Office, Direct Talks With US, would report: The U.S. State Department released a statement Friday that acknowledged American officials have seen the Talibans statement, and appeared not to explicitly rule out the prospect of talks with the militant group. As we have long said, the only way to end the conflict in Afghanistan is through a peace and reconciliation process with the Taliban. We are ready to accept any political resolution of the conflict between the Afghan government and the Taliban so long as the outcome of any process ensures that the Taliban cease violence, break associations with international terrorism, and accept Afghanistans constitution, including its protections for women and minorities, the statement said. This clearly conflicts directly with General Nicholsons statements. By recognizing the Taliban as a legitimate political movement, and with US allies affording the Taliban offices in their capital cities from which to bolster their legitimacy, the US, not Russia, has done the most to undermine its own narrative regarding the so-called War on Terror and the entire premise with which it justifies its continued presence in Afghanistan. While the US claims that it is fighting Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, it is clear that the real battle it fights is against the Taliban and its control over the country vis-a-vis Americas proxy regime in Kabul. The negotiated settlement it is trying to concurrently strike with the Taliban as its military campaign against the movement approaches two-decades, is both a bid to save its struggling proxy regime in Kabul, and an acknowledgement of the limitations of US influence in the region. Coverage of Americas ongoing presence in Afghanistan has dwindled within the US and European media specifically because the alleged narrative underpinning the occupation has diverged so drastically from reality. Over the next year, for those who carefully follow the conflict, the US will continue manufacturing excuses to remain in the country while it focuses on both negotiating with the Taliban and attempting to diminish them politically and militarily. For the Taliban, time is on their side, and if General Nicholsons statements are true about the Taliban receiving protection and resources from abroad are true, then no amount of negotiations or military might within Afghanistan itself will render victory for Washington and its proxies in Kabul. Ulson Gunnar, a New York-based geopolitical analyst and writer especially for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook, where this article first appeared. The above Article reveals the GLARING INCOMPETENCE and WHOLLY INACCURATE policies that the B.O.,[da stinka uh D.imwit C.ity], policies have engendered in our Military Strategies, AND, comprehension of the ACTUAL REALITIES in theater! The Taliban are the worst of the worst Muslim fanatics, and horror mongers, in existencetheyre HARDLY behind ISIS in the horror punishment category!!! Theyre One in the Same as ISIS!!! Of COURSE, (in the devils house there IS NO unity)! So these two horror Houses are continually vying for FIRST PLACE in punishment horrors achieved! Yet our LIBERALIZED upper echelon Managers of our Military cant accept these REALITIES, (because they dont fit into the LIBS IDIOT SAVANT paradigm!!!) The SOONER we get rid of the clown of D.C., AND get ourselves out of the Perpetual War game, the sooner the Afghan Nationals can take care of their OWN lives, instead of needing their hands held, and pockets or Bank Accounts filled!!! This ENTIRE last 8 years of foolery in BOTH IRAQ AFGHANISTAN have been PURELY financially devastating, (which, of COURSE was the WHOLE idea! The COMMIEN Chiefs entire intention!).NOW its time to leave the Afghans to care for themselves! AND! For US to care for ourselves!!! That`s fine,when the Israeli`s are tired of manipulating the US they`ll turn on Christendom with DC`s blessing https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/866623d50961ffe979b6a39e057115e2d2087be843a69f98df287a88fca1ec54.jpg Osama Bin Laden said back in 2002: Our style of making war to the US is such to let them ruin their country financially. So it happened. Who remember general Eric Shinseki? He predicted the Iraq war will cost 100 billion. Wolfowitz ridiculed him. Theres another layer of duplicity. Bin Laden Al Qaeda = CIA Operation Cyclone; the banksters print all the filthy lucre they need and want; ISIS is an international intelligence op Cyclone 2.0; the US as a military hegemon is giving way to a UN military and police force. NONE, repeat, NONE of you sheeple should forget that it was Bush 2 and his admin that first went in there. Russia was in there for 10 years and finally left, the great, wonderful, do not wrong RINO Bush 2 when in there and we are still there. Stop blaming Berry for this, he just keep it going. The last 5 Presidents are Globalist NWO Traitors. Both Dem and GOP who have sold out the American people There should be some additional info if we want to provide a true explanation of what is going on in Afghanistan. If it wasnt situated between Iran and China, we would care less about Afghanistan. But there it sits, and we cannot let China have such easy access to ME oil and gas, especially at advantageous prices. It costs a lot of money to have a US presence there, and elsewhere. It costs a lot of money to fund black ops and proxy armies around the globe. Growing and selling opium and heroin are great ways to fund secret operations. Who knows, maybe the people behind the heroin epidemic are just doing it to enrich themselves. Its not like we get the truth anyway. The three points listed above are a part of the story, but they are secondary issues. Western hegemony and control of key natural resources are always at the top. 