Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday his country won’t accept Afghan refugees because he doesn’t want to deal with militants masquerading as asylum-seekers. The Russian strongman slammed Western nations for placing Afghan refugees in countries even near his border while their US and European visas are being processed.

‘Does that mean that they can be sent without visas to those countries, to our neighbours, while they themselves don’t want to take them without visas?’ Putin raged to the Russian TASS news agency. ‘Why is there such a humiliating approach to solving the problem?’

He said he will not accept ‘militants showing up here under cover of refugees.’

The US has negotiated with various countries to at least temporarily accept Afghans who are fleeing their country after its swift takeover by the Taliban. The Islamic extremist group which is an illegal entity in Russia took control of the country after President Biden ordered the retreat of US / NATO forces following a 20-year presence. Other NATO nations like Britain, German, France Spain and others quickly rescued their fleeing nationals and their Afghan accomplices despite the Taliban offering fleeing Afghans an amnesty and forgiveness.

The Blunder Empire: The collapse and the rout of US-NATO were an echo of 1940 when 337,000 British troops serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France that were swept aside by the smaller armies of the Reich and were evacuated from the channel ports of France. Over 100,000 British and French troops threw down their arms and surrendered to the German troops and thousands more lost their lives. A similar debacle happened at British Singapore and twice in Norway during early 1940.

Russian officials have not joined in the effort to evacuate thousands of desperate Afghans at Kabul airport seeking to flee the country. Rather, the Kremlin has praised the Taliban for ‘restoring order’ to Afghanistan.

‘We are seeing the statements the Taliban made about ceasing combat actions, an amnesty for all of those involved in the confrontation, about a need for a nationwide dialogue,’ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. ‘They are being implemented.’