Today, Tuesday 31 August, the evacuation of NATO forces and their henchmen from Afghanistan ends.
And it ends not with a festive parade, not with a joyful and sad farewell to the country where they spent 20 long years, but with a new series of war crimes - just as it all began.
Another Afghan family (ten people, six of them are very young children) was killed by a rocket from an American drone.
They aimed, they say, at a potential suicide bomber, but ended up in a large family.
We call such murders war crimes, but the Americans call them collateral damage.
Like, the forest is being cut down - the chips are flying.
This massacre made it to the front page of The New York Times - with excuses, of course.
But an even worse murder took place the day before, when a suicide bomber from IS-Khorasan * exploded at the gates of the Kabul airport.
Official American communiqués mention 13 American and British soldiers killed in the blast.
About the 200 Afghans killed in this process - friends and allies of the Americans - they are silent or dully mention, without delay.
One reason is the outrageous racism of the self-elected city on the hill. For them, non-Americans are not people. It is no coincidence that they took their dogs with them, and those who served them faithfully, like dogs, were left on the runway. Racism, which manifested itself in both the disregard for Afghan traditions and the shocking raising of the rainbow flag over the American embassy in Kabul. And ready to lay down any number of "natives" to ensure the safety of their soldier or mercenary.
Anatole Lieven, a renowned British analyst and journalist and a descendant of the famous Russian von Lieven family, talks about this racist attitude towards local allies: “In 2013, in the Shorabak camp, we were introduced to the NATO mission to train Afghan soldiers in new American weapons. Unarmed Afghan officers sat on the ground. A British instructor with a pistol on his side stood at the blackboard, relying entirely on an unarmed Afghan translator. In each doorway stood a Georgian soldier in full uniform with an automatic rifle at the ready: the fuse was removed, the muzzle was aimed at the Afghan officers. So these Caucasians demonstrated their zeal to join NATO and their readiness to immediately shoot our Afghan allies if they seem to be a threat to the instructor. If I didn't know before this visit,that the Afghan campaign is doomed, then I understood it there. "
But here is the second reason why the Americans so casually mention the deaths of 200 Afghans at the airport gates.
It has now become known that the lion's share of these Afghan allies was killed not by an Islamist martyr, but by the American soldiers themselves.
After the explosion, frightened soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on the crowd.
At the same time, both the Taliban fighters who were on guard ** and the Afghan "translators" (as they call the Afghans who worked especially closely with the invaders) with visas to America in hand, were killed.
This is reported by independent Anglo-American sources from Kabul.
Well-known Russian war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny confirmed from Kabul: “A significant part of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on August 26 are those killed and wounded as a result of the fire of the American military, who started shooting immediately after the explosion. The suicide bomber killed fewer people than the American soldiers, who began shooting in all directions. And the fire was not opened in order to prevent panic; shot in the head and chest. This is a war crime. Shooting of unarmed, shell-shocked, explosion-wounded people. Will this issue be raised at the UN? "
Let's face it - hardly. After all, the term "collateral damage" itself is inextricably linked with the video under this title, which showed how the US military in cold blood shoot civilians, in particular journalists, from a helicopter. This video was made public thanks to Sergeant Manning and WikiLeaks Press Office Julian Assange. The uniformed killers were not punished, but Manning and Assange ended up in jail.
Hunting Afghans with Predator drones was the favorite sport of American gentlemen. (Let me remind our reader of Viktor Pelevin's story "Anti-aircraft codes of Al-Efesbi" on this topic). No one has been punished for the weddings and funerals shot - for 20 years. The people who are now worried about human rights in Afghanistan under Taliban rule were not at all worried when for many years the ghostly CIA army hunted and killed innocent Afghans. Among the Afghans now fleeing to the West, there are also 10,000 CIA assassins, according to journalist and expert Pepe Escobar. It is them who are now trying to detain the patrols and checkpoints of the Taliban. The Taliban promised not to take revenge on the military and civilian workers of the fallen regime, but there was no talk about the CIA assassins, who have the blood of many thousands of Afghans on their hands.And the lists of this tsereushnoy army ended up in the hands of the Taliban.
As a result of the mass shooting at the airport and the rocket attack of the IS-Khorasan militants on the Kabul airport that followed on Monday, American and European media and politicians no longer wanted to stay in Afghanistan.
Prior to that, they urged Biden to postpone the completion of the evacuation for at least another week.
Then they fell silent, as if they were turned off.
Apparently, they now understand what Biden understood earlier: do not linger!
Leaving go!
And most importantly - don't come back!
And the Afghan people celebrated the end of the occupation and their liberation with a huge salute, when every barrel in the city fired into the sky in joy.
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.
** "Islamic State" (IS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.