Russia, Central Asia Must Prepare For NATO Defeat In Afghanistan: Envoy

[IndianaGreen]

Russia, Central Asia Must Prepare For NATO Defeat In Afghanistan: Envoy

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1506783.php/Russia-must-prepare-for-NATO-defeat-in-Afghanistan-ambassador-says

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
October 13, 2009

Russia must prepare for NATO defeat in Afghanistan, ambassador says

Brussels/Paris: NATO is facing defeat in Afghanistan, and Russia and the states of Central Asia must be ready to pick up the pieces, Russia's ambassador to NATO said Tuesday.

Discussions at a conference in Paris on the future of Afghanistan run by the East-West Institute think tank 'have only further enhanced the impression of NATO's looming capitulation in Afghanistan,' Dmitry Rogozin wrote in a Twitter feed from the meeting.

'Russia and its Central Asian partners should be ready for such a dramatic scenario,' Rogozin wrote.

NATO currently has some 67,700 troops in Afghanistan operating under United Nations mandate in a bid to stabilize the country.

Russia supports the mission by allowing some NATO supplies to pass through its territory and cooperates with NATO on fighting the Afghan drug trade. However, it has so far ruled out any military participation in the country.

NATO leaders insist that the alliance will stay in Afghanistan for as long as it takes to teach the country's government and army how to run their own country.

But the mission is locked in a bitter battle with Taliban-linked militants. Public support in NATO countries is waning, and doubts are growing over the democratic credentials of the Kabul government, given reports of mass vote-rigging in elections in August.

Rogozin, formerly the head of the nationalist Motherland party in Russia, was appointed ambassador to NATO in January 2008.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. people seem to be spending an awful lot of time in Afghanistan

The UN troops should be enought to sort it out without the USA putting more troops in?

China which has a huge military doesn't seem to be doing much.

[thunder rising]

2. I think Russia has already gotten over that problem. Unless laughter induced hernia is a problem