"Many Afghans, especially the Pashtuns, did not support the pro-Western central government in Afghanistan - and not without reason: a corrupt system of personal enrichment flourished there. Huge sums of money were lost on bribes and 'ghost projects' that exist only on paper," Cicero writes.
What we created in Afghanistan, according to the Bundeswehr soldiers, is a rich caste of Western helpers. After all, helpong Afghans received up to 900 percent higher salary than the average resident of the country, and after receiving this service, they tried to include their friends and relatives “by acquaintance”.
Working for the West was driven primarily by financial gain rather than ideological beliefs, with the Bundeswehr soldiers serving in Afghanistan testifying to the daily newspapers Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Züricher Zeitung and Focus magazine.
In general, everyone who knows Afghanistan from the inside emphasizes that the loyalty of Afghans is to their family, clan, tribe or religious group, not to the state, and not to money donors from the West. "Inside, these people despise us, which, for obvious reasons, they would never admit," Reserve Colonel Thomas Sarholz writes in a letter to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Of course, there may be exceptions, he assumes, denying it immediately: "But I never saw one."
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