The Gringos "return home":
chronicle of an announced withdrawal
This was agreed at the Doha summit among the US, the Taliban and the official government of Kabul and its puppet army. They claimed that it had almost 300,000 men. The US gave it 89,000 million dollars a year. "It was an expensive court for Caesar in his occupation of the barbarian peoples."
"Surprisingly," this army disbanded within 24 hours. Actually, a voracious bourgeoisie of the finances and the commissions on the transit of merchandise through Kabul, with its generals, did not have more than 20,000 soldiers under arms. The rest were nothing more than lists of soldiers and officers on paper. And those generals collected the bulk of those millionaire payrolls sharing them with the American generals.
This is "the leg that failed", and ultimately it exposed what is really happening: the US must withdraw from Afghanistan because it can no longer fight directly the "oil wars" in those areas of the planet. The political crisis open today in the US establishment amounts to the fact that the failure of the plan of "orderly transition" in Afghanistan has been exposed, and with it the political weakness of American imperialism to control the world economy and politics. It must run it by means of (temporary or not) agreements and deals with the rest of the imperialist powers and also with the reactionary and counterrevolutionary local bourgeoisies, as a way of maintaining its business, in this case in the Maghreb, the Middle East and also in Central Asia as is the case with the Taliban.
The Taliban has a peculiarity with respect to the rest of the Muslim bourgeoisies. It guarantees imperialism it does not leave the Pashtun area or Afghanistan as a counterrevolutionary force. That is, they are forbidden to enter the Shanghai group with Iran, China, Russia, etc. Nor can it carry out counterrevolutionary actions outside Afghan borders, as it never did. Unlike the fractions of the Sunni bourgeoisie managed by the Gringos such as ISIS or Al Qaeda, or the counterrevolutionary troops of direct intervention such as the Iranian Islamic Guard, the Taliban cannot leave the borders of their country, if they want to stay in power and defend US imperialists' businesses and their slice of it. Hence, the policy of the Taliban is to set up an "Afghan emirate."
Along with the Doha summit, however organized by Trump, the immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan was also prepared in Biden's last trip to Europe. For this he met extensively with Putin. This was also the subject of his meeting with the G-7, where Afghanistan was a decisive point on the agenda. Germany and France were totally against U.S. withdrawal, as they made business and it was the United States that paid for the expenses of its army and endured the siege of the masses. Reluctantly, Bayer and Sanofi, the largest German and French laboratories, accepted the withdrawal.
But the plan of "orderly transition" agreed with a strong coalition government, that included the coordinated armed forces of the Taliban and Kabul, collapsed like a house of cards.
The curtain has risen: the true heir of the Gringos' withdrawal from the Middle East and Central Asia, the one who comes to guarantee the interests in the former's flight, is the Taliban bourgeoisie, with whom imperialism always agreed and negotiated its "stay" there.
It has already become clear that neither through Obama's pacts and accords, nor with Bush's “oil war”, or by means of Trump's trade war, the US can control the world all alone. The fact is that there are many imperialist powers and vultures that are pecking their fight for the planet. Among them, the Franco-German axis that has conquered its vital space throughout Europe and from there disputes the semi-colonial world. In the case of England, despite the deep agreements it has with the US imperialism, here and there it seeks to consolidate its own areas of influence and business from London, while a Japan politically and militarily subordinate to the United States, seeks its vital space in the pacific.
The US knows that it must concentrate forces and stabilize its domination regime because its strategic battle is for China, its powerful domestic market, its huge state-owned companies and its banks. That's what Biden's interim political deal with the G-7 and "friend-foe" Putin was all about.
But the biggest crisis that the US has - which in 2008 and in 2020 has thrown two crashes to the world like the one of the 1930s - is with his own working class, which is in an offensive position and has surrounded Wall Street in different waves of struggle and when not, it has openly confronted the government of the American pirates with huge fighting in the streets. Inside the imperialist beast lays the great ally of the workers and oppressed peoples of the world: the American working class. It does not allow Wall Street to develop new counterrevolutionary adventures abroad for now, and has played a decisive role in the US withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, as it did with Vietnam in the 1970s. |