CIA was looking for "Russian bounty" instead of terrorists

The series of explosions in Afghanistan amazed the whole world not by the fact that terrorists were found in the country (who would have thought that there were terrorists there!).

And not because the tragedy claimed many lives (let's be honest: Afghan lives have not touched humanity for a long time).

A series of explosions in Afghanistan amazed the whole world by the fact that it occurred in the area of ​​responsibility of the US military.

Where many citizens of the United States and other Western countries are concentrated.

This is the largest failure of the American intelligence services in many years of work in Afghanistan.

Apart from the recent period when the Taliban * took Kabul, the last major terrorist attack that threatens Western citizens was already in 2017.

Then the terrorist blew himself up near the German embassy.

After that, the rules for entering the "green zone" of Kabul were further tightened, and around it, another - "blue" - buffer security zone was created.

Also on russian.rt.com The Taliban denied media reports of collusion with Russia against the United States

But the main line of defense is, of course, intelligence and special services, which must prevent a terrorist attack even before a suicide bomber even loads a bomb into a car.

However, in recent years, the American special services have been used to a greater extent for political reprisals and provocations than for their direct work.

In Afghanistan, for example, for the last two years they have been forced to find "Russian bounty" by all means - traces of the fact that Russia paid for the Taliban to kill Americans.

And although the idea itself seems ridiculous - like bribing children to eat ice cream - huge forces were thrown into its confirmation.

Democrats demanded that Trump punish Russia, and Joe Biden made this one of the main points of his election rhetoric.

Four months before the elections and almost exactly a year before the fall of Kabul, the then-future US president announced that he would make Russia answer for the murders of Americans in Afghanistan, since "there is no bottom below which Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin cannot fall."

Biden, quoting the American press, said that behind the killings of Americans in Afghanistan "is the same group that organized the assassination attempt in London on a former KGB agent."

Yes, yes, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, it seems that it is about Boshirov and Petrov, although Biden did not mention their names.

Reasonable representatives of the American special services already then commented with surprise on such statements. But the progressive public demanded from them proof that the "Russian bounty" really existed. And not even evidence, but at least the notorious highlighted like. With Biden's rise to power, this obviously became an official order.

Western intelligence services have been moving towards this over the past decade, themselves agreeing to turn from professional intelligence officers into a kind of "collective witness" in any political process.

What does the Russian trace in hacker attacks prove?

Intelligence community (with reference to classified materials, of course).

What does the Russian trace in the murders prove?

Intelligence community (with reference to classified materials, of course).

What proves that the Russians blew up a warehouse in the Czech Republic?

Intelligence community (with reference to classified materials, of course).

And so the intelligence community was tasked with proving the Afghan "Russian bounty".

I can imagine the anger that agents "on the ground" felt towards such directives.

And after that, they were also ordered to urgently turn off the fishing rods, breaking the ties created over the years, the chains of informants, and trusting relationships.

Many, I am sure, have moral obligations to their Afghan agents, but in the chaos created by the decision of politicians, they are physically unable to pull them out of the country. 

In such a situation, many people lose heart.

And failures like the one that happened yesterday at the airport are simply inevitable.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion near the Kabul airport.

But part of it definitely lies with those publications that came up with stories about the "Russian bounty" in Afghanistan.

And on those politicians who fool people with these (and other) fairy tales.

* "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.