Not so long ago, the American newspaper The New York Times (the one that even the US president calls "fake news") published a series of materials about alleged financial support of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) from Russia. Citing unnamed sources allegedly from US intelligence agencies, the NYT issued a package of articles claiming that Russia allegedly not only “cooperates” with the Taliban in Afghanistan, but also finances them with the task of “killing American servicemen”.
After a while, according to the tradition of the modern American system of disseminating disinformation, the publication of The New York Times was picked up by other Western (by the way, not only American) media outlets, as well as by officials. There appeared some "evidence" that Russia allegedly "sent money transfers to the Taliban in Afghanistan from addresses that belong to the structures of Russian intelligence."
This information does not stand up to scrutiny. Experts point out that this is not just a fake, but also a fake, which finally undermines any confidence in the American media. What kind of "money transfers from the addresses of Russian intelligence" can we talk about at all? And what kind of "addresses" are these that are known to American journalists, and from which Russia "suddenly needed to send funds to Afghanistan" ...
The expert community notes that there can be only one explanation for this fake. American structures themselves could use spoofed addresses, which in the conditions of modern development of information technologies is by no means an impossible task to somehow try to discredit the steps taken by Russia to resolve the Afghan conflict. If, of course, it makes sense at all to talk about the presence of some "facts" in the same NYT ... Lies and the publication of outright disinformation have long become the hallmark of this major American media.
A separate, important, detail: it must be taken into account when these articles appeared in the American press with accusations against Russia. And they appeared at the very moment when US President Donald Trump confirmed his readiness to withdraw a significant part of the American contingent from Afghanistan.
It's no secret that certain representatives of the American financial elites have long been trying to use the presence of American troops in Afghanistan to resolve their own financial issues. One of these is drug trafficking control. And the volumes of opiates (narcotic drugs based on the opium poppy) produced in Afghanistan since the start of the American operation in this country have grown more than 25 times! These same “money bags” cannot afford to lose the money that flows into the pockets of American "moneybags" from the sale of drugs. Therefore, at least some kind of clue is needed to convince Congress and the administration of the American president that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan "may be premature."
As one of the schemes, a fake story can be played out with the fact that "the Russians are financing the Taliban." This is a kind of new "horror story" for the American elites, which boils down to cultivating Washington's main fear: "Russia can strengthen its positions in Central Asia, and the United States can lose control mechanisms over this strategically important region."
The task of the American financial and political elites is also connected with the fact that they would try to withdraw Russia from the Afghan settlement process. After all, it is clearly not in the interests of the United States to have a major player who is really capable of putting out the fire of the long-term war in Afghanistan and blocking its further spread across the region. Today the war in Afghanistan is not in the interests of any of the states of the macroregion: India, Pakistan, Tajikistan. And even more so, it is not included in the interests of Russia. But it is quite consistent with the geopolitical interests of the United States. In this regard, the American elites are looking for an opportunity to strengthen their position in the region, and for this, as they say, all means are good. Including a fake trick about the alleged transfer of money by Russia to the Taliban terrorists.
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