The US and NATO failure in Afghanistan seen by analyst Guido Salerno Aletta
The American and NATO intervention in Afghanistan lasted twenty years: it was 2001 when, to respond to the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. US President George W. Bush launched an unprecedented offensive to track down the Taliban hiding from their sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
A Coalition of Willingness followed the American appeal, giving rise to a military intervention that failed to beat their resistance: from Pakistan to China, to Russia, too many international interests have cheered and supported the sinking of the initiative.
It was all in vain: even the best American generals have failed in their attempt to mobilize the population against the Taliban, who remain a minority. Their determination to pursue revolutionary objectives, combined with external support, has succeeded in defeating the attempt to create consensus around a democratic state on the Western model. It has not been possible to create a structure capable of beating the corruption of the elite and the interests linked to drug trafficking.
To obtain a truce that would allow them to withdraw without losses, the US has long opened a channel of negotiations with the Taliban: by doing so, they have not only de-legitimized the government in office, but have set the conditions for a transition in which they participate. Encouraged by these prospects, the Taliban have regained control of several cities, while the government is trying to keep some strongholds in place. The civil war that has lasted uninterrupted for forty years in Afghanistan will resume
. new balances, aimed at isolating the USSR, this time Washington finds itself isolated, against everyone.
While New Delhi is silent and Beijing is already extending its hand to the Taliban, Moscow is witnessing with some satisfaction the ruinous conclusion of the American intervention, recalling the support given to the Taliban by Washington itself and which forced the USSR into the unsuccessful invasion of Afghanistan in 1978. A military and economic effort that accelerated the fall of the communist regime.
According to the American strategists of the time, the USSR’s adventure in Afghanistan should have led to a catastrophic political and military failure similar to the one that had been caused by the American intervention in Vietnam: never as during that war, in fact, America she had found herself isolated. The protest is rampant, involving large sections of the youth population: anti-militarist slogans multiplied: from “Let’s make love and not war!” to “Put some flowers in your cannons!”. It was done: America had suddenly lost the legitimacy of democracy that wages war to free peoples from political slavery.
With the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which follows that from Iraq, another and longer-term long-term strategy of the US is concluded, the one that aimed to surround both China and Russia closely: whatever the reasons were contingents that led to the invasion of these two countries, the geopolitical objective was very clear.
An area of ​​instability remains open which, starting from the eastern borders of China and southern Russia, reaches Europe, involving Ukraine and the entire Mediterranean in the north, from Lebanon to Syria, from Libya to Tunisia.
As in Vietnam, civil and revolutionary wars are not won with arms.
From Saigon to Kabul.
(Extract from an article published on Teleborsa; here the full version)
