“Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council, told Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders on Monday that Moscow wanted to help achieve a durable peace in the country, Russian news agencies reported.” [Ron Popeski, Reuters, November 25, 2024.]

Wait — I could not have read that correctly. Russia wants to waltz back into Afghanistan . . . to make peace?

Again??!!!

Have Russia’s historians once more been tasked with erasing history? Have they truly forgotten the years 1979-89, or the degradation of leaving Afghanistan the first time, with their proverbial tails between their legs?

According to Shoigu — the former Russian Minister of Defense who now sits at Putin’s side on the all-powerful Security Council — it was the Taliban leadership who asked for Russia’s help in “. . . [easing] the pressure imposed by U.S. sanctions against the Kabul government . . .” [Id.]

As head of a delegation to Kabul for talks with senior officials there, Shoigu was quoted as saying:

“Let me confirm our readiness to establish a constructive political dialogue between our countries and among the goals would be providing an impulse for the process of a settlement among Afghans.” [Id.]

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I have only one comment to this unimaginable development, and that is:

“Well, here we go again!”

What do I keep saying about history repeating itself? Obviously, no one has been listening.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/26/24