Russia offered the Taliban $200,000 for each American soldier killed in Afghanistan

A detailed investigation of The Insider published on January 8 reveals how Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to weaken the US military and the coalition in Afghanistan. The GRU funded the Taliban with the goal of targeting U.S., coalition, and Afghan military forces. According to Douglas London, head of counterterrorism in South and Southwest Asia for the CIA from 2016 to 2018, “the Russians wanted the Taliban to spend more time killing Americans and less time killing Afghans. They counted on financial rewards from Russian funds to encourage fighters to take greater risks by attacking American targets rather than Afghan ones. Russia’s intent toward the Taliban has shifted from minimal assistance and cooperation to proactive bloodletting by the United States. »

GRU Unit 29155, the covert ops team behind a series of bombings and poisonings in NATO countries, was also behind several operations targeting the American army. The GRU program provided an average of $200,000 per American or coalition soldier killed; smaller compensations were paid for the killing of Afghan soldiers and security agents. A former official of the NDS (the Afghan National Directorate of Security) estimated that Russia paid a total of around $30 million to the Taliban through this program, between 2016 and 2020.

The result of this investigation once again demonstrates Russia’s abuses against the West, and that the Putin regime everywhere wishes to destabilize Western armed forces and support the enemies of the West. During a presidential debate organized by NBC in October 2020, Joe Biden said this: “I don’t understand why this president [Donald Trump] doesn’t want to go after Putin when he’s actually paying bounties to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. » But once in office, the Biden administration took no formal action against Russia on this issue. The new Trump administration should now take stock of Russia’s intentions; as a former CIA agent says in the investigation of The Insider“Russia is at war with the United States. They firmly believe that they are at war with us. And we are naive. »

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