Differences between the Afghan Kabul government and the US may become issues in Afghanistan's coming elections and may see Russia displacing America in the country. President Karzai said recently that if the US does not speed up a program to equip Afghanistan's military the task will be carried out by other countries. Russia's Medvedev expressed readiness to help Afghans' armed forces and an Afghan delegation will visit Moscow in the near future to discuss military-technical co-operation.
Meanwhile, the first rail shipment of Russian flour has arrived in the Afghan city of Haraton as part of a UN food program to counter starvation which with the severe winter has seen 300 people die. Russia has dispatched 105 rail cars of flour but the shipment is being held up at the Uzbeck border.
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Then we have the Kyrgyz Parliamentary Committee approving the closure of the US air force base on its territory.
POSTER COMMENT; Looks like things are going well for the Russian Bear, and not all that well for Obama and the Zionist misfits advising him.
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