It begins anew

 

It seems the never-ending Afghan conflict between the lesser greater evil and the greater greater evil (with the pure evil being thrown in for good measure) is starting all over again. At least according to the video above, which discusses an anti-Taliban resistance group called the AUF, headed by a former covert operations specialist from the old regime. OK, let me guess. If and when the Dems retake the White House, he will be declared the greater good and receive some quality military assistance from The Man? Indeed, the AUF might be receiving it already, since their office is in Virginia! And the official launch of the organization was made through a US Neo-Con website...

It begins anew. 

From Kabul to Hormuz

 

Very little about Iran on pro-Trump "news site" Breitbart News just now. Sure wonder why. Imagine if Biden had fucked up this hard somewhere in the Greater Middle East, I mean, Breitbart would have been all over the place attacking him for betraying Amerika, sounding almost like bellicose Neo-Cons in the process...

I *know* they would sound like that. Because, you see, they did...in 2021, at the fall of Kabul. But now, radio silence is apparently the more prudent course of action.

Oh, and I sure wonder who negotiated that take-over deal with the Taliban in the first place? Right.

Here we go again

 

All-out war between Pakistan and the Taliban in Afghanistan? Here we go again. War-wise, that is.

Let´s see if the Islamic Republic can defeat the Islamic Emirate. Frankenstein´s monster and all that...

It´s over

 

Is it just me or has every "isolationist" Alt Right-ish influencer turned raging imperialista just hours after Trump attacked Venezuela and captured Maduro? Complete frauds. But perhaps I shouldn´t be surprised. After all, I´m old enough to remember when Trump dropped the MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) on the Taliban in Afghanistan, making every MAGA supporter on Twitter cheer along. 

Isolationism my ass. 

So it´s imperialist war, then. To the bitter end. 

They forgot the ice cream

 

- You won´t believe this one, Mahadev...

So Donald Trump wants the United States to re-enter Afghanistan? Ooookay.

Superinjunction

 

So we all learned a new word today. Yes, that would be "superinjunction"... 

Dödens fält

 

Jag undrar också över förklaringen. Är talibanerna en galen sekt (*ännu* galnare än vad vi trodde, och förhoppningarna på de här killarna var aldrig särskilt höga) som för tankarna till de röda khmererna? Eller är det en IQ-fråga? Fast de var tillräckligt smarta för att besegra USA:s allierade...  

Talibanerna trappar upp kriget mot kvinnorna

Svärje sätter ner foten, yao

 

Fy fan vad hårt. Men kan de inte fika åtminstone? Eller käka glass?

"Kommer inte prata med talibanerna"

From isolation to inclusion

 

The climate change conferences continue their downward spiral, now in Azerbaijan, a nation mostly known for its oil industry. They have natural gas, too. Since the Azeri regime is authoritarian, the number of radical leftist protesters should be minimal. 

The Taliban of Afghanistan participate at the conference as "observers". I suppose they could pitch their enormously large and untapped reserves of rare earth minerals as some kind of Green transition thing. Or they could just sell ice cream... 

Taliban participate in climate change conference

Queer as Taliban

 

This must be the strangest news item this year. I suppose we could call it queer as fuck! Is Andrew Anglin behind this, somehow?

Taliban shuts down "Queer.af" platform 

Pity the nation

 

The United Nations reports that the Taliban have eradicated 95% of Afghanistan´s opium production. While this may sound good, Afghan peasants get much less from growing and selling wheat, the usual replacement crop. The economy might therefore collapse (if it hasn´t already done so). 

The UN expresses concern that the farmers might turn to manufacturing and/or smuggling other drugs instead, including "met" and fentanyl, the latter being particularly deadly.  

Opium production collapses in Afghanistan

Det är skillnad på terrorister och terrorister

 

Det här är tydligen en moderat kommunalpolitiker i Falköping. En hazara från Afghanistan. Som alltså stödjer Hamas´ barbariska terrorattack mot Israel. Det kommer att bli mycket sådant här framöver, misstänker jag. Det positiva är att psykopaterna tydligen inte kan hålla käften, och således avslöjar sig. Tror inte att de här personerna hänger kvar över nästa val. "What is happening is called self-defense, hun".

Slog mig förresten att hazara brukar vara shiiter. Som knappast skulle få plats i Hamas´ idealsamhälle. Hussaini hade aldrig kunnat bli ledamot av en kommunal nämnd på Gaza-remsan. Men att missbruka Sveriges gästfrihet går tydligen bra.

Faktum är att Husseini lajkar en pro-hazara-tweet som undrar varför talibansympatisörer tillåts bo i västländer! Så hon är inte främmande för, ska vi säga, selektiva utvisningar. Och ja, hon är pro-rysk också. Hur i allsin dar kan en sådan här person bli moderat kommunalpolitiker?! 

Men okej, det här är ingen hatblogg. Alltså slutar jag här. Zara Larsson och den för mig helt okända Zeynab Husseini får räcka som avskräckande exempel...   

Uneven and combined development

 

Anarcho-capitalism, come and meet reality

Salvadoran president Bukele
together with Donald Trump

Digital currency was once seen as a tool to create a libertarian utopia. It was supposed to decentralize the world, or whatever. 

Did it? Of course not. 

Palladium magazine has the story of how Bitcoin was taken over by centralized state actors such as Russia or the peculiar administration currently governing El Salvador. Even the Taliban, of all people, have discovered Bitcoin. 

The cryptocurrency is being used to monitor and control the financial transactions of individual citizens, while strengthening the power of nationalist regimes and/or circumvent international sanctions. 

The next logical step is for governments to issue their very own digital currencies, thereby getting complete control of the citizens´ buying and selling... 

Enjoy the ride, LOL-bertarians! 

How Bitcoin strengthens the state

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I´m sure this is some kind of teenage LARP, but come on! Note the name of the group: "Bewitch the Taliban". But sure, maybe witchcraft is the only thing that can save the DNC in the midterms, who knows...

Self-proclaimed witches want to talk some sense into Slavic War of God

The true Taliban Mindset

A very, very bizarre story. 

Taliban helps pregnant New Zealand reporter after her own government abandons her due to COVID restrictions

Bland åldersfuskare och terrorister

Lite förvecklingar i Norge kring talibanerna. Enligt Wiki (som kan ha fel) är Anas Haqqani född 1994. I så fall var han 14 år gammal när terrorattacken mot Hotel Serena ägde rum. Inte helt glasklart på vilket sätt han kan ha varit ansvarig för den? 

Däremot är det klart att han tillhör Haqqani-nätverket. Han verkar vara bror till nätverkets nuvarande ledare (som också är Afghanistans inrikesminister), och son till dess grundare. 

Hur detta kommer sluta? Gissning: Afghanistan får pengar i utbyte mot rara jordartsmetaller. Eller opium...

Taliban i Oslo påminner om rysk militär i Sverige

Högerns godhetssignalering

Ett tidigare möte med "terroristerna"

Lite "virtue signaling" från höger. 

Kritik mot talibanmötet: "Hämtar terrorister"

"We are monitoring the situation"

Could even be true, given the current weakness of the US and the obvious senility of its "Commander in Chief". At this stage, Taliban in Almaty winning over the population with free ice cream deliveries are probably more likely! Last time I paid any notice to Psaki, she was threatening to censor anti-vaxxers on Facebook. Priorities... 

US denies role in Kazakhstan uprising

China has fallen

A/B testing of a new disinfo campaign to "convert the barbarians"? Presumably, the "Green tech" angle didn´t work after Greta busted it? So now China tries another approach...

If this continues, only Russia and the Taliban will remain. And they are, ahem, problematic on many other grounds...

Chinese regime debuts transgender clinic in Shanghai