{"id":40599,"date":"2014-03-24T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40599"},"modified":"2014-03-24T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:50:45","slug":"karzai-supports-russia-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40599","title":{"rendered":"Karzai supports Russia in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=40153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hamid-Karzai-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hamid-Karzai\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hamid-Karzai-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hamid-Karzai-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hamid-Karzai-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hamid-Karzai.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/24\/world\/asia\/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a> reports that Hamid Karzai, chief spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, and president, has joined with Syria and Venezuela in supporting the Russian annexation of the Crimea. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia\u2019s insistence that it is righting a historical wrong in retaking Crimea, which was ceded to Ukraine by Soviet authorities in 1954, resonates in Afghanistan. Here, many believe that the Pashtuns, the country\u2019s largest ethnic group, were unjustly cut off from their brothers and sisters when Britain laid down a border to separate Afghanistan from imperial possessions in South Asia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that makes sense. Especially if Karzai ignores the fact that the Soviet Union also invaded his country, left a mess in their wake that was instumental in the rise of the Taliban who forced Karzai into exile. Having Venezuela and Syria in his his corner make him look like he&#8217;s grateful for the US has done for him, if not his country.<\/p>\n<p>Karzai also suspects that the US was behind the murderous assault on the Serena Hotel in Kabul last week, according to Prensa Latina News;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s management denied that groups of the political, social and military movement Taliban and Haqqani network were behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Governmental sources said that the modus operandi did not match that of Afghanistan&#8217;s main groups of armed opposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, he doesn&#8217;t come right out and blame the US, but just a few weeks ago, he did just that in regards to other incidents he blamed on &#8220;foreign intelligence agencies&#8221; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/karzai-suspects-us-is-behind-insurgent-style-attacks-afghan-officials-say\/2014\/01\/27\/a70d7568-8779-11e3-a760-a86415d0944d_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karzai has formalized his suspicions with a list of dozens of attacks that he believes the U.S. government may have been involved in, according to one palace official. The list even includes the recent bomb and gun assault on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, one of the bloodiest acts targeting the international community in Afghanistan, the official said. The attack, which left 21 people dead, including three Americans, was almost universally attributed to the Taliban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Obama Administration should freeze his assets right now and see how badly we can really piss him off.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ohio for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that Hamid Karzai, chief spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, and &hellip; <a title=\"Karzai supports Russia in Ukraine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40599\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karzai supports Russia in Ukraine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}