Swordsmyth
05-21-2018, 01:31 PM
Russia said the U.S. will have to drop its opposition to negotiating directly with the Taliban on the eventual pullout of American troops from Afghanistan or face a grinding and bloody war for years to come.
The U.S. refusal to talk with the hard-line Islamist movement that controls 40 percent of Afghan territory is “why we are at a dead-end,” President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said in an interview in Moscow on Friday. Without such contacts, “the war and bloodshed will drag on for years,” he added.
More at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-20/talk-to-taliban-or-fight-endless-afghan-war-russia-tells-u-s?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=hosted&cmpId=yhoo.hosted
The U.S. refusal to talk with the hard-line Islamist movement that controls 40 percent of Afghan territory is “why we are at a dead-end,” President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said in an interview in Moscow on Friday. Without such contacts, “the war and bloodshed will drag on for years,” he added.
More at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-20/talk-to-taliban-or-fight-endless-afghan-war-russia-tells-u-s?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=hosted&cmpId=yhoo.hosted