Based in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, Amrullah Saleh, a former CIA agent, the first vice president of the fallen republic, and a member of the Resistance Front leadership, seems to have lost hope in the U.S. and the West after nearly four years of running, begging, and complaining. This time, he is looking towards another empty door. For nearly four years, Amrullah Saleh and his fellow comrades and allies knocked on doors in the U.S. and the West, from France to Israel, to get dollars to fuel the war in Afghanistan.
They held meetings there with governments, criminal networks, mafia groups, intelligence agencies, arms manufacturers, and all those parties they thought would support the start of the war in Afghanistan. Despite the majority of negative responses, some intelligence agencies and criminal networks showed conditional willingness to help, but when they saw the weak, divided, and fragmented state of Amrullah Saleh and his groups, as well as the widespread internal embezzlement and corruption, they backed off and did not want to waste their money and resources on such illusory projects.
This situation has been ongoing for nearly a year or a year and a half. Amrullah and his other associates and allies have been completely in a state of turmoil during this period; they have no place to stand, no one believes in them within Afghanistan, and they cannot find buyers for their wars abroad. On one hand, ordinary people within Afghanistan know these individuals, their associated addresses, and their sinister goals well, so they are in no way prepared to cooperate with them, and they even strongly and vehemently oppose them.
On the other hand, the current government has, through a soft and people-oriented policy, deeply rooted itself among the people, and no one is prepared to cut these roots because they know that if these roots are cut or weakened, they will face an unbearable situation. Furthermore, the current government, thanks to its balanced foreign policy, has achieved significant accomplishments in the past nearly four years, to the extent that it forced its arch-enemy (the USA) to come and sit at the table like a rival government.
As a result of this active and balanced policy, the caretaker government has been able to activate its foreign diplomatic apparatus, with dozens of Afghan embassies and diplomatic missions abroad being entrusted to it, and this process is ongoing. Just last week, for the first time, a high-level delegation from the United States visited Kabul and discussed bilateral issues with representatives of the Afghan government as if they were a rival government. This process may continue to expand, with many other Western countries possibly taking similar actions as the United States, gradually paving the way for recognition and other important matters.
When Amrullah Saleh saw this situation, his existing despair deepened even more, and now he has recently started efforts to extend the ties of friendship and alliance with Russia. He has begun broadcasting in Russian on social media and is trying to show that the recent meeting between Afghanistan and the United States is supposedly against Russia’s interests. Amrullah Saleh and his allies will make these efforts, but just as they became disillusioned with the West, they will also become disillusioned with Russia, because they have been tested once and no one is willing to ally with them again. On the other hand, Russia is well aware of Amrullah Saleh, the Resistance Front, and ISIS’s close ties, so they will never be inclined to support and befriend them.
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