In the event of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan to Tajikistan, Beijing’s response will be inevitable. The White House has widely announced the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan. But they are clearly not going to go far, and all observers are now wondering in which particular country of Central Asia these new…
Apocalyptic scenario is unwarranted The Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on May 13, “We will not allow boots on the ground or military bases on our territory.” He was referring to the future US security operations in the region. The Pentagon’s stated position is also not about establishing any new bases in the…
Moscow knows what Washington has not yet learnt: it’s not just one guy, it’s a whole country and sugar hits don’t last. Every time – and we’ve just had an illustration – someone in Kiev makes trouble for Russia, the Internet is full of people crying on Putin to just go in and knock them…
As the evacuation of NATO’s coalition troops, deployed in Afghanistan for the past 20 years, begins, a highly serious and still unresolved issue for the United States is where these armed forces and their weapons and military equipment will be withdrawn to. Some media outlets have already heard from a senior White House official that…
The New Great Game 3.0 is just beginning with a hat tip to Tacitus and dancing to the Hindu Kush groove. One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021. Nearly two decades and a…
Recent border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan claimed more than 40 lives, most of them civilians. Although the dispute may seem like another post-Soviet conflict over population and territory, it is also motivated by water control and drug trafficking. The skirmishes between April 28 and May 1 were the worst border clashes between the two Central…
