It finally hit me that what Afghanistan felt like to me was the conclusion of a business negotiation, which had been about the management of the country, and at the conclusion of which Joe Biden–who had been a financial participant and stake holder in the negotiations–was told to turn the country over to the new management with the utmost dispatch, which he did.
This idea is related, of course, to the pipeline being built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan%E2%80%93Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_Pipeline
The only thing I am sure about is that that Wikipedia article is incomplete, and I have no idea who all the players, in specific, may be. I am sharing a feeling mainly.
What caused me to think about this was speaking to a Burmese person (who, by the way, said that Burma is fine, and the one most Burmese use when traveling, but the emphasis is on the second syllable), who said that the Chinese want to build two pipelines across Burma.
I had asked him if the opposition–which had won the election but then been deposed by the military, among allegations of fraud, which may themselves have been fraudulent–had any weapons. He said no. I asked him who was arming the Burmese military. He said the Russians and Chinese. I asked him why, and he said the Russians wanted an ally in that region, and the Chinese wanted to build their pipelines, and eventually perhaps turn Burma into a Soviet style extension, and get access for themselves to a port in their West. The Soviet part is my idea, not his, but it was the general feeling whenever I hear the phrase “warm water port”. What I heard was they want to do to Burma roughly what Russia wanted to do with Iran, purportedly.
So did China sponsor and support the coup? It’s not unlikely. We ourselves of course have done that sort of thing all around the world.
Here is one last thought: if China does achieve some degree of control in Afghanistan, they could in effect use the Taliban to train Islamic radicals for proxy attacks on the West.
Now, I got the Terror bug. I bought into it. I was afraid. I was more afraid of Al Queda than my government. That has inverted.
But imagine Al Queda or ISIS with effective training in terrorism provided by China, and as directed by a nation which views us as their main global threat, as indeed we are, or would be, if we had a faithful and patriotic President and Congress. As things stand, we seem to be ruled by corrupt traitors, who hate us, hate our way of life, and who may as well be aliens from some place far from here.