Russia appears to now be helping out the Taliban

[applegrove]

by Paul Szoldra at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-supporting-taliban-2017-1

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Moscow said last month it was in contact with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, with the stated reason being that Russia was sharing information and cooperating on strategy to fight the local ISIS affiliate there, according to The Wall Street Journal. So far, cooperation apparently doesn't involve cash or guns.

But it understandably has US commanders there spooked.

Gen. John Nicholson, the top American military commander in Afghanistan, has spoken out against Russia's extension of an olive branch to the Taliban as offering "overt" legitimacy to a group intent on toppling the Afghan government.

Russia's "narrative goes something like this: that the Taliban are the ones fighting Islamic State, not the Afghan government," Nicholson said at a Pentagon briefing last month. "So this public legitimacy that Russia lends to the Taliban is not based on fact, but is used as a way to essentially undermine the Afghan government and the NATO efforts and bolster the belligerents."

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Remember a friend talking about this

when we chased the Russian's out once before. His comment was,Herroin is so rampant in Russia after leaving Afghanistan,and he said the Russians have to get control of the source. So here we go after a couple of decades.

Putin needs that Exxon pipeline our Puppet built with our Military Protection.