While the world watches with shudder what is happening at the Kabul airport, Russia calmly, methodically, without haste, is establishing "working contacts with representatives of the new authorities."
This is stated in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The laconic document notes that the situation in the capital of Afghanistan is stabilizing, and also indicates that power has passed to the Taliban as a result of the almost complete absence of resistance from the national armed forces trained by the United States and its allies.
They say that here in Moscow we accept the situation as it is.
So far, the main criterion for treating the winners in the intra-Afghan confrontation has become the situation around our embassy in Kabul.
The Taliban at the political level guaranteed the security of the Russian diplomatic mission.
There was also a changing of the guard.
The place of the Afghan military national security forces guarding the Russian embassy was taken by well-armed "adequate men", as our ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov put it.
The Taliban have cordoned off the outer perimeter through which "no terrorist, no madman," the diplomat said, gladdened.
Having achieved, first of all, the security of Russian territory, our ambassador intends to monitor the general situation in Kabul.
For a long time, the negotiations with the Taliban were overseen by the Russian President's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Director of the Second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov. His personal contacts with Mullah Baradar of the Taliban's political office in Doha, who may now become the country's leader, are worth a lot. As a true diplomat, Kabulov pointed out for some time that Moscow has equal relations with both sides of the Afghan conflict, but in recent statements he has already directly called Ashraf Ghani's regime a puppet.
Indeed, the circumstances of the Afghan President's flight can cause nothing but contempt. Back in May, Ghani pompously declared: "I will not abandon my people ... I am ready to die for my country." However, he not only did not die, but also escaped, taking several cars of cash. What did not fit into the helicopter was left lying on takeoff. Published by Ghani in 1989 in the Los Angeles Times, a triumphant article about the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan sparkled with new colors. Don't dig a hole for another.
The American kept woman will still drink the bitter cup of shame to the dregs. According to the same Zamir Kabulov, the ex-president deserves to be brought to justice by the Afghan people. Our diplomat noted not only the weak legitimacy of the Ghani government, which was supported by American bayonets, but also his rule, which was generally unsuccessful for most Afghans. Only Afghan translators, apprentices, employees of pro-American commandant's offices, who received a salary in dollars, will remember the kind words of the former president. And even then only those who will survive the collapse of the regime.
Of course, the Ghani regime was recognized by both Russia and everyone in the world.
And the Taliban have yet to form government bodies.
And only then the question of recognition will arise.
Eaten by the complexes of the former global empire, Britain, a pioneer of Western domination in Afghanistan, fears the legitimacy of the Taliban.
Americans have no time for this at all.
Well, Russia has wisely "suspended the question", indicating that it is necessary to look at the further behavior of its southern neighbors.
So Russia's position on the Taliban looks extremely balanced and appropriate.
The Shuravi learned from the past.
The same cannot be said about the Americans.
Biden's speech the night before could only be described as a failure.
The president tried to pass off a defeat, a fiasco, for a victory.
And so that he would not be taken out to clean water, he refused to answer questions.
Escaped like the Pentagon from Kabul.
The United States has not missed such a strike for a long time.
The whole world, laughing, points a finger at the former hegemon.
They are bullied.
And only the modest toilers of the skyscrapers on Smolenskaya Square do not participate in this orgy.
They have a lot to do.
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.