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Two years under Taliban rule in Afghanistan: ‘I never thought the world would forget about us so quickly’ (english.elpais.com)

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[-] lingh0e@lemmy.film 53 points 10 months ago

Dude, you should probably read up on the history of Afghanistan before you start saying "America is to blame".

I mean, yeah... America IS to blame... among others. And it goes back WAY further than 20 some odd years.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

Important reminder that the USA financed the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war. See Operation Cyclone.

[-] lingh0e@lemmy.film 14 points 10 months ago

Hell, see Rambo 3.

[-] seejur@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Important reminder that in that war, Russia was yet again the invader

[-] Harrison@ttrpg.network 10 points 10 months ago

Sort of, the local communists, probably without soviet knowledge or support, overthrew the local military dictator. They started unpopular reforms like gender equality and social ownership, people got very unhappy about that, the situation devolved into a civil war and the Soviets decided to intervene to support the Afghan communists.

Not quite a straight invasion like Ukraine and probably more justified than the US intervention.

[-] Historical_General@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The soviets didn't even like them iirc. Very sad situation all round.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yep, the worst religious radical is better than the best atheist. Cuz they're commies and fuck that.

Lets give these guys some guns, I'm sure it won't backfire.

[-] Historical_General@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They weren't good because they were reds. They weren't even really RU/SU-aligned. They were good because they were progressive and also happened to be neutral in terms of foreign affairs. But they learnt that the US funded the taliban and that's why the reds were invited in. The US got word. And disaster ensued.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Important reminder that the Mujahideen fractured, and one of the factions went on to become terrorists. Not the entire group.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

Still means the USA financed the training of the part of the faction that split.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

This is also similar to ISIS, it's almost like we don't mind the fallout if it justifies further military spending to fight the GWOT.

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