What Afghanistan was really all about!

[patman post]

Britain and Russia should have kept out of Afghanistan and stayed out 200 years ago.

Great — so let's all go back 200 years and start again...

[papasmurf]

There we are, just a potted summary, but all the key details you need to know.

Britain and Russia should have kept out of Afghanistan and stayed out 200 years ago.

[Sampanviking]

For those who may be wondering, this is a very quick summary of what Afghanistan was all about and why the pull out has upset so many Interventionists in the West.

Afghanistan was always simply a part of a much much bigger geopolitical conflict, put together in the 1990's during the height of the US's Unipolar moment.
It was no less than part of a truly ambitious and audacious plan to repeat the strategy that they successfully employed in Eastern Europe, rolling back Russian influence all the way to the Russian border.

This strategy required the building of a land bridge of occupied/client states from the Eastern Med, all the way through to Afghanistan. This meant Regime Change in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Further Colour revolutions in Georgia and the Ukraine were meant to force Russia away from any access to the Black Sea and remove its Navel presence from the Eastern Med.

Next it meant destablising the former Soviet Stans of Central Asia right up to the Russian border and replacing the regimes with more client puppets. This would connect up with Mongolia and the allow the process of destabilsation in Russian Siberia and the outer Chinese provinces of Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, to break up and weaken these potential major rivals and ensure at least another one hundred years of unparalleled and unchallenged US Global Hegemony.

This plan may have started well, but soon came of the rails, mainly due to the effective blocking and spoiling actions of Vladimar Putin, later joined by Xi Jingping.
The pull out of Afghanistan is the tacit admission that the plan is failed and over, which is why so many Neocons and Liberal Interventionists alike as so appalled.

The US now is only interested in facing off against China in the Asia Pacific and I predict will be out of Syria and Iraq within a year. Europe will be left to look after itself.

There we are, just a potted summary, but all the key details you need to know.