Strategic mistakes such as the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021 have given terrorists confidence.

NEW DELHI: When law enforcement agencies are unable to trace the sources that fueled and activated terrorist impulses in an individual who carried out a multi-casualty terrorist attack, they resort to the “lone wolf” claim. attack. The reality is that terrorists almost always never become “self-radicalized.” Each of them is addicted to the terror incubators whose job it is to train potential terrorists. Unfortunately for the West, strategic mistakes have been made, such as the decision in 2015 to allow a million asylum seekers into Germany with virtually no screening. Previously, the US-backed “Arab Spring” led to millions of affected countries seeking refuge in Europe rather than staying within their own borders. Such decisions opened up some countries to immigration from crisis regions to an unprecedented extent, particularly in Germany. Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an increasing spread of terror modules prepared for terrorist attacks, especially in the West. Strategic mistakes such as the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021 have given them confidence. The US withdrawal left the country to the Taliban. Biden gave the Taliban the Bagram air base and other locations needed not only to better monitor the situation but also to intervene if necessary. Currently, PLA activity is increasing at many of these locations. Such US bases were built and equipped at great expense, but were not maintained. The Rawalpindi headquarters was again, as in the 1980s, made a guarantor of good behavior by the US, this time by a “reformed” Taliban.

The ethnic divide between Punjabi soldiers in the Pakistani military and the Taliban’s ethnic Pashtuns was ignored. Shortly thereafter, Pashtuns in the Taliban began resisting attempts at overlordship by the Pakistani military, which has since become an auxiliary force of the PLA.

The shock to global security caused by Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has given oxygen to the previously hibernating terror modules in the West and given them confidence that it is feasible to carry out new terrorist attacks. That trust had been nearly wiped out after the Taliban’s defeat in 2001 by a combination of Northern Alliance manpower and U.S. air and other assets. In the attacks of September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks in New York and a foiled attack on important buildings in Washington, it was the hijackings and the subsequent deliberate collision of aircraft with buildings that caused the carnage. Another strategic mistake by President Biden has happened again, this time in the form of not discouraging, but almost cheering, an extremist takeover of Syria by extremist Wahhabi militias. Given his misrule, Bashar al-Assad had to go, but through popular unrest and not through a wink at the arming, funding and unleashing of Daesh elements through gray zone funding by Turkey, which remains a NATO ally of the US.
Now the setback has taken place, manifesting itself in a spate of terrorist attacks across the West. In the terrorist attacks in Britain, Germany and the United States, vehicles were used to invade crowds of revelers, killing several of them and injuring several others. The explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas was the detonation of a Tesla truck loaded with explosives. There is evidence that the suicide bomber did not intend to kill people, but rather blew himself up to protest against the enrichment of politicians. Such a motive does not change the fact that it was a terrorist attack that could have claimed several lives. Queens, New York, and Honolulu, Hawaii, were also victims of attacks, although the Queens attack was a special case and was carried out not with explosives, but with the use of firearms, which are in abundance in the United States.

The extremists’ takeover of much of Syria has given new confidence to those planning terrorist attacks and the terrorist groups that motivate and train the modules they develop. Terror modules developed by them are scattered throughout the West, which remains their main target. Previously, the Taliban’s takeover of most of Afghanistan in 1996 was viewed by Washington as a strategic victory as the extremist militia easily toppled the Najibullah regime in Kabul, which had previously been supported by Moscow. It was President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who in 1979 launched a policy of supporting Afghan radicals and non-Afghan moderates in their legitimate struggle against the Soviet occupation of their country. Such a strategic mistake was a consequence of the alliance with the Pakistani military in the fight against the Soviet forces. The Wahhabi headquarters in Rawalpindi bypassed the patriotic moderates in Afghanistan and directed US training, funding and weapons to extremists who triumphantly invaded Kabul in 1996. The Rawalpindi headquarters feared that armed and moderate Pashtun nationalists might seek the return of Pashtun territories handed over to the British more than a century ago in the form of the Durand Line. Extremists, officials in Pakistan believed, were putting their twisted ideology above ethnic loyalty. The extremists’ takeover of Afghanistan in 1996 was the trigger that ultimately led to 9/11. The bitter fruit of what President Bill Clinton sowed was reaped by President GW Bush.

Similarly, the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, carried out not, as should have been attempted, by moderate Syrian nationalists but by a militia made up of extremist groups, provided fresh oxygen to the Daesh sleeper modules in Europe activated. Some of them subsequently carried out terrorist attacks during Christmas and New Year celebrations in London in the United Kingdom, Magdeburg in Germany, and New York and New Orleans in the United States. There was also an explosion in Honolulu, which may have been another attack. Bashar al-Assad had to go because he provided a land bridge to transport supplies from Iran to Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, but that had to happen because the US and Israel were uselessly bombing such supply routes and causing unrest in the Population among the predominantly moderate population was fomented by Syrians. Instead, Erdogan was supported in his moves to ensure an extremist takeover. It did not take long for elements of the “reformed” Taliban to move full force against the Pakistani army by 2023, and it is unlikely that it will be long before Turkey itself suffers a setback due to the current leadership’s use of Wahhabi extremists, to pursue their supposed interests.

But for Matt Gaetz, who was not a good choice, the Trump picks in the US national security system are outstanding in their abilities. This is why the Chinese-Wahhabi lobby in the US is working tirelessly to prevent the confirmation of as many of them as possible. The new US President Trump is not the only target. This also applies to India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, albeit in a different way. For more than a year, efforts to discredit India’s growth story both abroad and at home have been intensifying. As part of these efforts, forces hostile to India have attempted to short sell the rupee, whose exchange rate has fallen to unprecedented levels. Their ultimate goal is to prevent capital inflows from China from reaching India, a country that would otherwise be their most natural alternative destination. Such short sellers need to be named and shamed for supporting the CCP by trying to weaken India’s investment sentiment and the stability of the rupee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the support of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will work to ensure that such efforts fail. As for President Biden, he is leaving the White House with a bang, although not in the way he would have liked.