From Reuters:
“U.S. to help build border
facilities on Tajik-Afghan border – embassy”
(Tajik service members line up
during a parade following a nationwide military exercise, in Dushanbe,
Tajikistan July 22, 2021.)
The United States will help build
new facilities for border guards in Tajikistan along the Central Asian
country's frontier with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to better respond to
security threats, the U.S embassy in Dushanbe said on Wednesday. The new
facility, which will be built in Tajikistan's southwestern tip, will replace an
outdated detachment and allow border guards to "deploy forces more quickly
to border areas in response to threats," the embassy said. Tajikistan,
which has pledged to accept 100,000 Afghan refugees escaping the Taliban, hosts
a Russian military base and is a member of a Moscow-led post-Soviet security
bloc. Moscow has reinforced its military base in Tajikistan and its forces are
holding a month of exercises near the border with Afghanistan. The final U.S.
forces pulled out of Afghanistan on Monday and President Joe Biden spoke on
Tuesday of the end of an era of major military operations to remake other
countries.
^ Clearly Biden wants to gain influence
in Central Asia, but I don’t see Russia allowing that. ^
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