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At least $293 million have likely filled the coffers of the Taliban since the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal due to State Department failing to properly vet award recipients. 🤣 (www.sigar.mil)

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

yeah this was so great for them https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/

During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse.

It's absolutely vile how people will go on to try and justify colonialism.

[–] ymmel@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one is defending colonialism. It’s saying the Taliban is worse. Which it is. Those poor people.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Saying Taliban is worse is literally defending colonialism. Those poor people burgerland kept murdering for decades.