Chaos in Kabul as Taliban retake Afghanistan. Twenty years since the US-NATO imperialist intervention in the country, the consequences for the Afghani people are more than devastating. The slogans of âfreedomâ, âsecurityâ, âdemocracyâ and âpeaceâ, which the U.S imperialists and their allies used as a pretext for the 2001 military invasion, within the framework of the so-called âWar against Terrorismâ, were proved empty promises.
The U.S. governments and their European allies bear the overwhelming responsibility for the tragedy that the people of Afghanistan are living. The criminal 2001 imperialist war unleashed by the Bush government and its NATO allies had nothing to do with the âfight against terrorismâ or âbringing democracyâ. The only reason behind the intervention was the control of important geostrategic regions, energy resources and transportation roads, for the sake of the U.S. monopolies.
When the aim was accomplished and the focus of the U.S. foreign policy switched to other regions, the Biden administration decided last April to withdraw the U.S. military forces from Afghanistan. Within the context of the fierce competition between the US-EU bloc and other big powers, like Russia and China, the U.S had to transfer military personnel and equipment to other areas, including the Baltics, the Black Sea and the South China Sea.
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In their war against socialism-communism, the U.S. created and harbored the monster of jihadism which they renounced in 2001 as âterrorist threatâ, in order to strengthen their pretext for the imperialist intervention in Afghanistan.
Today, the apparent concern of the U.S. administration and European governments about the resurgence of Taliban and the future of Afghanistan can only been seen as crude hypocrisy. They are are responsible for the current situation in the country. The working men and women, the people of every country, must condemn the imperialist propaganda. The crime against the Afghani people must not be forgotten as it is a constant reminder of the barbarity and atrocity of imperialism.
* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.
Source: Idcommunism.com