"Paradoxically, it suits the US geo-strategy to have the Taliban return to power and Afghanistan becoming an "Islamic" state. The talks in Doha aim at working out the ground rules of a "peaceful co-existence" between the US and the Taliban.
What Russia would apprehend is that it is a matter of time before this co-habitation between the US and the Taliban would mutate into a tacit "division of labor" between the two protagonists with regard to Central Asia. The strengthening of the Russian military presence in Tajikistan anticipates such a turn of events in the geopolitics of the region.
On Thursday in Kyrgyzstan, the country's parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the government's decision determining July 11, 2014, as the date by which the US should vacate its military personnel and equipment from the Manas air base."
