When Westerners left Afghanistan in mid-August, only two embassies remained in Kabul, the Russian and the Chinese. Looking at the geographic map, the now independent Russian-speaking former Soviet republics appear on Afghanistan’s northern border in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and near Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Could we say that mass has already been said? … No, but looking back to the 2010s, no one in Europe wanted to hear and understand the Russian reality, that of Vladimir Poutine who saw the attitude of a sated and tired Europe, turning its back on Russia and the development of a Sanctions policy, which has never changed today, in view of the international Crimea summit last August in Kiev, and the incessant anti-Russian attacks by some Council of Europe member states to this day, it was obvious that Vladimir Putin, president of the biggest country in Europe, he could not maintain such a common attitude.
That’s how Eurasia was born in Moscow, that is, the exit to Russia, a European state, to open itself no longer to the West, which closed doors and windows for it, but to the East, the great plains., The routes from Marco Polo to China, the famous Silk Road, the Urals and the Caucasus, and even more, what is being done today.
Because the Afghanistan of the “Durand Line” has been a reality since 1893. And what the Bolsheviks and Soviets could not do, Putin did. Settle in a country far from your base, as you did in Syria to reach the “warm seas”.
This chess player knows perfectly well how to advance his pawns when part of the international community tends to demonize him and stick to vague “measures” that claim to be anti-Russian. And tomorrow perhaps, India for Vladimir Poutine, who must certainly get along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose air forces are equipped with French Rafale, but also many Russian planes, Mig, Soukhoï, Iliouchine, Antonov, Mil ( helicopters) , as an example for the Indian armed forces.
Thus, Vladimir Poutine’s foreign policy, much supported by his Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, one of the best diplomats in the world, Russian policy is far from being an instantaneous policy, but rather considered, with the ambition to establish and establish itself. perennially, that is, a long-standing theory, while “the West” in general preferred a short-term strategy, doomed to many failures, as was the case in the United States of America.
This is the demonstration of our guest Vladimir Fédorovski, former diplomat, journalist and writer, when the action of Russia goes beyond its geographical borders. However, Afghanistan, the world’s first poppy producer, has a subsoil with deposits of lithium, copper and gold. Who will benefit from the windfall, hard to say today, but between the Taliban, the El group, perhaps Daesh and supporters of Commander Massoud led by his son Ahmad, will Russia and China have the opportunity to take advantage of the Afghan underground? … and with whose agreement? … Here part of the century could be played between Russian chess (aхmat) and the Chinese Go game.
Nowadays, if the nuclear weapon serves as a deterrent, for a few years the real force, the weapon that marks power, is energy. Water, gas, oil: a trilogy that will one day have the company of wind, sun and geothermal energy. And the oil will be gone, but not the gas. Although gas pockets are becoming scarce in Europe, and although the American “ally” “”promises “some Europeans a seaborne US gas, there is and still is an expanding gas producer. With its pipelines, this is obviously Russia.
If the price of gas continues to rise in France and other European countries, sooner or later Russian gas will have to be considered, especially as certain regions of Europe experience harsher winters than others. Once again, Russia’s patient foreign policy allows its neighbors, even distant ones, to speak out and take a stand against Moscow, often yelling at the pack. The fact is that one day or another, blessed will be the beneficiaries of Russian gas. And it’s not surprising that famous former European politicians have joined the Russian gas company Gazprom or the Russian oil company Zaroubejneft…
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