SOTT Exclusive: Psychopathic "fun and games" continue in Afghanistan

© Antonio Olmos/Observer

Whether Ukraine, Iraq, or Afghanistan the "Grand Chessboard" strategy remains the same - divide, conquer, and loot

The most remarkable development in the management of America's relations with other countries during the quarter-century since the end of World War II has been the assumption of more and more control over military, financial and diplomatic operations at home and abroad by men whose activities are secret, whose budget is secret, whose very identities as often as not are secret -- in short, by a Secret Team whose actions only those implicated in them are in a position to monitor and to understand...

The Secret Team (ST) being described herein consists of security-cleared individuals in and out of government who receive secret intelligence data gathered by the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) and who react to those data, when it seems appropriate to them, with paramilitary plans and activities, e.g. training and "advising" -- a not exactly impenetrable euphemism for such things as leading into battle and actual combat -- Laotian tribal troops, Tibetan rebel horsemen, or Jordanian elite Palace Guards...

- L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team

On October 21st, 2001, America invaded Afghanistan under the false pretext of waging a "War on Terror". They toppled the Taliban government, itself a reaction to the mujahadeen America had placed in power to fight the Soviets, placed their puppet Karzai in power, and chaos has ensued ever since.

Due to the chaos, pathological individuals have had a heyday in the production and selling of drugs, constant bombings, and the inability of the central government to enforce the rule of law across the country. The most recent developments in the country continue to reek with the involvement of "Secret Teams" using the chaos to play their pathological games with the people of Afghanistan.

The fruits of a new presidency

President Karzai either had a hint of a conscience, desired greater power, or both as he continued to voice his displeasure with the US' role in Afghanistan. He tried to keep the US from carrying out raids on Afghan civilians, and continued to gather evidence that the US was involved in the many "terrorist" bombings:

President Hamid Karzai has frequently accused the U.S. military of causing civilian casualties in its raids. But behind the scenes, he has been building a far broader case against the Americans, suggesting that they may have aided or conducted shadowy insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government, according to senior Afghan officials.

So then, in September, we saw another act of 'democracy' in Afghanistan, where someone much more malleable was installed. Now the country can finally be at peace with the fantastic, made in America, illusion of choice! But in all honesty, the hearts of the men and women of Afghanistan must have been a wee bit skeptical when "Finance Minister and World Bank official Ashraf Ghani" was appointed the new "President" by the international criminal oligarchy that destroyed their country:

Let's start with Afghanistan. The charade in Kabul goes by the name of "power-sharing agreement."

You got an election problem? Call John Kerry. That's right; this "agreement" was brokered by none other than the US Secretary of State,who shoved the embarrassing issue of a tainted democratic election under an Afghan carpet.

It came to the point that a UN representative, Jan Kubish, virtually ordered the Afghan electoral commission not to release vote numbers.

And this is while the UN itself had been monitoring an audit and a recount of approximately 8 million votes.

The predictable "senior US officials" spun that the vote result was "transparent." But still, no numbers.

So now we have - essentially appointed by Washington - former Finance Minister and World Bank official Ashraf Ghani as President, and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah as "Chief Executive", a new post.

And this after Abdullah insistently claimed the vote results were no less than a monster fraud. US "Think Tank-land," unfazed, has called it a "temporary fix."

So now we begin to see the fruits of that election. Ashraf Ghani knows who is buttering his bread and won't dare do anything beneficial for his people:

The Taliban and other militants oppose Afghanistan's new, Western-educated president, Ashraf Ghani, who took office nearly two months ago. Unlike his predecessor, Hamid Karzai, Ghani is forging a close relationship with the United States and other Western powers. One of his first acts was to sign the bilateral security agreement allowing American and other foreign troops to remain in the country past the end of the year, which the Taliban has condemned.

Then surprise, today another "suicide bombing" occurred in the Yahya Khel district, killing up to 50 people during an intense and exciting volleyball game - one of the few pleasure the Afghan people have left. We are told that it was likely the Taliban, because who else would do it? Well we could always ask qui bono in this type of a situation:

Sunday's attack occurred on the same day that the lower house of parliament approved agreements to allow about 12,500 NATO-led troops to stay on next year.

US-led NATO combat operations will finish at the end of this year, but the Taliban have launched a series of offensives that have severely tested Afghan soldiers and police.

So who benefits? NATO does with yet another reason "why Afghanistan needs us". Fun and games? I think so, but only for a psychopath.

Keep the terror flowing

With Obama obliging Ashraf Ghani with the decision to authorize wider US military roles in the country, timed with the traumatizing bombing of the volleyball game, President Ghani also took it upon himself to re-institute the much dreaded night raids that Karzai tried to end. The official purpose of these night raids (renamed night operations of course) is to capture key military leaders of the Taliban. That is very plausible, but it's a lie. That's because we know for a fact that the US has been killing civilians during these raids. The horrors for the families destroyed in this way cannot be put into words, so I won't try. Use your imagination:

U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals.

That number would make U.S. night raids by far the largest cause of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. The report by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on civilian casualties in 2010 had said the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) by insurgents was the leading cause of civilian deaths, with 904.

It's clear that new scenarios, gestated in the minds of psychopaths in the Pentagon and various other "Secret Team" HQs, are hatching in Afghanistan. But these games have been planned and carried out for decades. The following video highlights some of the "games" that have brought Afghanistan to this place in time:

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Afghanistan is in constant free-fall collapse because it is being kept that way. As a result the Afghan economy is so dependent on international aid that at this point, if the US did leave, it could simply collapse. Therefore, in the chain of propaganda-logic, the US should stay and continue to play cat and mouse with the men, women, and children of Afghanistan. But since billions of this aid have been siphoned into the coffers of the oligarchy, a collapse would probably be beneficial, and provide a chance for the communities that have been so badly terrorized and traumatized to regroup on their own terms:

The numbers are staggering. According to the World Bank, an estimated 97 percent of Afghanistan's roughly $15.7 billion gross domestic product comes from international military and development aid and spending in the country by foreign troops. The economy is already contracting as troops leave, and future growth will be slower, especially in urban areas and areas of conflict.

And from Index Mundi:

Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of housing, clean water, electricity, medical care, and jobs. Criminality, insecurity, weak governance, lack of infrastructure, and the Afghan Government's difficulty in extending rule of law to all parts of the country pose challenges to future economic growth. Afghanistan's living standards are among the lowest in the world. The international community remains committed to Afghanistan's development, pledging over $67 billion at nine donors' conferences between 2003-10. In July 2012, the donors at the Tokyo conference pledged an additional $16 billion in civilian aid through 2015. Despite this help, the Government of Afghanistan will need to overcome a number of challenges, including low revenue collection, anemic job creation, high levels of corruption, weak government capacity, and poor public infrastructure. Afghanistan's growth rate slowed markedly in 2013.

So who benefits from the widespread chaos in Afghanistan? Why does the US seem incapable of leaving? Besides looting the oil, the amount of money to be made in selling arms and rebuilding, and the geopolitical intrigues, there is a social-psychological reason as well. The chaos cannot stop in Afghanistan as long as it is obvious that a US puppet is running the show. This is the eternal problem of colonial projects. With peace comes clarity, so the US and its allies wage their never-ending "War of Terror". As has been written about the ponerization of a nation:

What would happen if a state of affairs ensued which conferred internal peace, corresponding order, and relative prosperity within the nation?

The overwhelming majority of the country's population -being normal - would make skillful use of all the emerging possibilities, taking advantage of their superior qualifications to fight for an ever-increasing scope of activities. Thanks to their higher numbers, there would be a higher birth rate of their kind, and their power would increase. This majority would be joined by some sons from the privileged class who did not inherit the psychopathic genes. The pathocracy's dominance would weaken steadily, finally leading to a situation wherein the society of normal people take back the power. To the pathocrats, this is a known and nightmarish vision.

Afghanistan in perspective

But the Pentagon, make no mistake, knows exactly how to play its New Great Game in Eurasia. Balkanization of AfPak - the break-up of both Afghanistan and Pakistan - will engineer, among other states, an independent Pashtunistan and an independent Balochistan. Empire of Chaos logic is still British imperial divide-and-rule, remixed; and, at least in theory, yields territories much easier to control.

Pepe Escobar, Under the AfPak Volcano Pts 1 and 2

Look at Ukraine, look at Afghanistan, and its plain to see that what the US has done in the latter is the plan for the former. The cutting up of the Middle East, indeed the world, into small countries ripe for the pillaging is the game plan. The end result is a "Disney World" for psychopaths, where the rule of law is non-existent.

We end with words from Vladimir Putin, one of the most vilified Presidents today precisely because of Russia's stance towards this global pillaging:

Let's ask ourselves, how comfortable are we with this, how safe are we, how happy living in this world, and how fair and rational has it become? Maybe, we have no real reasons to worry, argue and ask awkward questions? Maybe the United States' exceptional position and the way they are carrying out their leadership really is a blessing for us all, and their meddling in events all around the world is bringing peace, prosperity, progress, growth and democracy, and we should maybe just relax and enjoy it all? ...

So, what is in store for us if we choose not to live by the rules - even if they may be strict and inconvenient - but rather live without any rules at all? And that scenario is entirely possible; we cannot rule it out, given the tensions in the global situation. Many predictions can already be made, taking into account current trends, and unfortunately, they are not optimistic. If we do not create a clear system of mutual commitments and agreements, if we do not build the mechanisms for managing and resolving crisis situations, the symptoms of global anarchy will inevitably grow.

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