How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country

Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, and coached by powerful DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council.

[thegrayzone.com]

Our tax dollars are funding probably hundreds of these types of people. If you take any nation where our government has an agenda to overthrow, you can be sure they have foreigners from that country here in the US presently involved in the same manor of preparations. For an example I'll use the 2 most current and widely used targets. Venezuela and Cuba. In the US we currently have several people here that have come from Venezuela and Cuba who are receiving this type of "conditional" VIP treatment. They are all either past opposition characters of the present governments or activist in support of an overthrow. These are virtually always upper class citizens, corporate owners, beneficial politicians, usually of deeper European ancestry.

In Venezuela's case, many here are from the puppet government that was in place before the revolution, or people who were highly benefiting from the corruption and theft of resources during the period before Chavez took power. When you see people on social media who support US agendas, especially in Venezuela and Cuba, these are the people they come from and or came with who help to spread false narratives about the country they fled, in most cases. There of course are few who are stuck outside of the reality of what US involvement results mean for their old country. But then we have our own issues within that realm in our own society. But these people are always those who support US agendas in online forums who, like many in the US when confronted with facts, use baseless rhetoric for talking points because they don't have factual information to debate with. So all they can provide is the MSCM rhetoric as an attack in hopes to draw people towards a false cause.

The CIA especially loves when they can get a collage professor to work the cause with them.

{The US-backed puppet leader allegedly made his escape with $169 million that he stole from the public coffers. Ghani reportedly crammed the cash into four cars and a helicopter, before flying to the United Arab Emirates, which granted him asylum on supposed “humanitarian” grounds.

The president’s corruption had been exposed before. It was known, for instance, that Ghani had brokered shady deals with his brother and US military-linked private companies, letting them tap into Afghanistan’s estimated $1 trillion in mineral reserves. But his last-minute exit represented an entirely new level of treachery.}

You can't beat this. He can now live high on the hog in the land of the most wealthy's dreamy vacation spots of the middle east, being served by any of the vast number of slaves the UAE pay for from other countries to be brought in.

{Ghani’s senior aides and officials promptly turned on him. His defense minister, General Bismillah Mohammadi, wrote on Twitter in disgust, “They tied our hands behind our backs and sold the homeland. Damn the rich man and his gang.”}

It isn't like they didn't have several years of evidence of what would come! The reports have been virtually non stop from the beginning. This comes from people living right in the thick of the lies of winning the war to crony capitalism. They should have drove him off to a secluded space and dropped him off with a group of Taliban long ago.

As you read on, Ghani made his rounds in the US and abroad in all the right arenas to implement a course of colonialism when he wondered back home to become a false prophet after he renounces his US citizenship.

{Praising the “center-right,” Ghani declared that imperialist institutions like NATO and the World Bank must be strengthened in order to defend “democracy and capitalism.” He insisted that the US military occupation of Afghanistan was a model that could be exported around the world, as “part of a global effort.”}

Hows that working out now? Pretty god dam well for him anyways. Only the few.

{While Ghani flaunted his accomplishments in post-Soviet Russia, UNICEF published a report in 2001 that found that the decade of mass privatizations imposed on newly capitalist Russia caused a staggering 3.2 million excess deaths, reduced life expectancy by five years, and dragged 18 million children into abject poverty, with “high levels of child malnutrition.” The leading medical journal Lancet likewise found that the US-created economic program increased Russian adult male mortality rates by 12.8%, largely due to the staggering 56.3% male unemployment it unleashed.}

It's hard not to feel for Putin and the total catastrophe he was left to deal with and still working on fixing today.

{Highlighting their ideological zealotry, Ghani and Lockhart even went so far as to assert an “incompatibility between capitalism and corruption.” Of course, Ghani would go on to prove just how absurd this statement was by selling off his country to US companies in which his family members had invested, furnishing them with exclusive access to Afghanistan’s mineral reserves, and then bolting to a Gulf monarchy with $169 million in stolen state funds.}

I'd say you can't make this hit up, but this shit was made up. And a lot of people died for it, and will continue to die for it for years to come. And it was all out there for us to know about. The writing was on the wall, to fall and crush us with its information. This is where I once again remind you, they have us playing checkers while they're playing chess. We, many, can't get up from the checkers board because our MSCM is beholden to keep this type of information from us.

{Up until 2014, Ghani remained an active member of the Atlantic Council’s International Advisory Board, alongside numerous former heads of state, US imperial planner Zbigniew Brzezinski, neoliberal economic apostle Lawrence Summers, Lebanese-Saudi billionaire oligarch Bahaa Hariri, right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and the CEOs of Coca-Cola, Thomson Reuters, the Blackstone Group, and Lockheed Martin.

But that year, opportunity knocked and Ghani saw his ultimate ambition within reach. He was on the precipice of becoming president of Afghanistan, fulfilling the role elite US institutions had cultivated him for over decades.}

With a group like that behind you, you have no where to go but puppet president to enrich yourself and family. The rest of the country be damned.

{A report published that December by European Union electoral observers concluded that there had indeed been rampant fraud in the June election. More than 2 million votes, representing over one-quarter of the total cast, had come from polling stations with overt irregularities.

Whether or not Ghani actually won the run-off was nebulous. But he had managed to get over the finish line, and that was all that mattered. He was president now. And his imperial patrons in Washington were more than happy to sweep the scandal under the rug.}

When your preferred guy wins, sweep it under the rug. But when the observers find no fraud or election tampering in Venezuela, create a false narrative for the MSCM to spread.

{The apparent rigging of the 2014 election did little to tarnish Ashraf Ghani’s image in the Western media. The BBC characterized him with three terms – “reformer,” “technocrat,” and “incorruptible” – that would become the press corps’ favorite descriptions for a president who ultimately abandoned his country with $169 million and his proverbial tail between his legs.}

{The Atlantic Council hosted Ghani a final time in June 2020, at an event co-sponsored by the CIA-linked United States Institute of Peace and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Following praise from Kempe as a “leading voice for democracy, freedom, and inclusion,” former CIA Director David Petraeus lauded Ghani by emphasizing “what a privilege it was to work with [him] as the commander in Afghanistan.”}

Before this, for 6 years right up to the end, the entire establishment with the help of MSCM lauded this corrupt criminal as a beacon for a successful growing Afghanistan. I'll just leave that right there for you all to dwell on.

{It was not until Ghani openly robbed and fled his country in disgrace in August 2021 that the Atlantic Council finally turned on him. After nearly two decades of promoting, cultivating, and lionizing him, the think tank ultimately acknowledged that he was a “villain in hiding.”

It was a dramatic turnabout by a think tank that knew Ghani better than perhaps any other institution in Washington. But it also echoed the desperate attempts at face-saving by many of the same elite US institutions that had shaped Ghani into the neoliberal economic hit man he was.}

In other words. We're all richer thanks to Ghani and the gig is up. Now it's time to send him and his reward to places we dare not go. Next.....

{It was official Washington, its apparatus of think tanks, and its army of sycophantic reporters that made Ghani who he was. This was a fact he himself acknowledged in a June 2020 interview with the Atlantic Council, in which Ghani expressed his utmost gratitude to his patrons: “Let me first pay tribute to the American people, to the American administrations, and Congress of the United States, and particularly, the American taxpayer for the sacrifices in blood and treasure.”}

Highlighted at the top is everything I warn you about in this group. Public relation firms, NGO's, and various think tanks of every aspect of our society who work for the ruling elite, run our world. They (the ruling elite) own the MSCM and our politicians who deliver us a delusional reality.

Highlighted at the end is Ghani pissing on all our dead men and women as he walked off with the money we worked for each day for 20 years as the working class within the collaboration of all those above. We're being pissed on daily. He mocks our dead and our country. Our representatives gave him the power and means to do so.

I know The Grayzone's articles are long, but they are also the most informative means of a news source I know of. When you close out an article from them you usually go away with information going back years to decades that place history at the forefront of understanding what we face today. I can't overstate how important it is to understand the correlation of todays events coming from the history that's recycling now. The MSCM's goal is to erase history to reduce the chances of a full discovering of the now.