It's wild watching the media trying to manufacture consent in real time that we need to stay/go back in, while I imagine the generals probably know the war's over.
they really think the Taliban are naive enough to fall for something like this. you occupied their country for 20 fucking years, they don't owe you shit
socialism is not gonna come to Afghanistan any time soon even if the Taliban are defeated tbqh, and the US knows that. a lot of people did support the socialist government.... 40 years ago, but the Soviet intervention really did a lot to paint 'socialism' as foreign invasion and an attack on Islam, which is why the Muhajadeen won in the first place; sure US weapons and funding did a lot, but they also had popular support. the leaving guns behind shit I think is more the collapse of the empire and just being fucking incompetent. the US pulled out of a base in the dead of night not long ago, they just ran away. the empire is fucking useless but wants to make every move seem like 4D CIA chess, when the fucking idiots didn't even see the Taliban turning on the US empire
the Taliban and China actually have a pretty good relationship. but there are several Turkestan Islamic Jihadist groups in Afghanistan that work with the Taliban, and the Taliban are not big geo politics guys, they are true ideologues who do actually buy their own bullshit. the belt and road stuff they're fine with, but they don't exactly like the PRC either
building actual infrastructure and gasp impacting the material conditions does a LOT more yes. but, like the idea that the outside powers will come in and save them from their savagery is kind of a colonial mentality if you ask me tbqh. I do think things will improve, for one there's not some asshole bombing every wedding anymore. the occupation did a lot to bolster the Taliban because are you gonna fight the guys fighting off the invaders who bomb your schools? send out their sicko death squads into your village? no, most people want the US gone more than the Taliban, but once the US is gone? where does the Taliban get legitimacy from then?
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan fought for three years after Soviet troops left despite international isolation and American funding and arming of Islamists, while American-backed government literally collapses faster than Americans could get the fuck out.
come, mister taliban, tally me banana
daylight come and me wan' go homehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3mRfseXko4
woman here says shes not afraid of the taliban while sky news tries to fearmonger on her behalf lmao. they keep doing shots of women in burkas to shit on the taliban but as you can see, there are plenty of women in burkas in the american puppet state just walking the streets
This sounds like acceptance stage, it's a forgone conclusion they're entering the capital
