It's not great, bad times are gonna be had, but at least in Kabul they've declared a general amnesty so they're not going to shoot women and hang people on the street like in the cities where their militias have broken through without command discipline.
I genuinely think that they are surprised by the total collapse and are scrambling to establish Civilian command of their irregulars and form a government. I was a pessimist and I thought on Friday they'd last a week before Kabul fell.
Of course, that won't save hardline supporters of the state. There's 4 jets parked on the runway at the airport rn, packed with refugees, but they can't take off because the US have parked 2 chinhooks and a c130 right on the tarmac.
It’s crazy to think in concrete terms what establishing a government would be like. The government here is such an abstract, distant thing and they’re like, no we need to find people who can go collect taxes and people who will be responsible for this area and that area. Like they’ve got to be currently appointing people to just pick up work as they realize it needs done.
Not trying to romanticize the Taliban. Just a moment of this process finally occurring to me. A “government is just people” thing
Yeah, as an aside, that's why things like mutual aid and establishing dual power institutions are so important. It's relatively easy to topple a system, it's hard to do it while keeping the power on and the food shipments incoming.
Loved the look at people doing that in the vice doc on the Russian seperatists in Donetsk, just scrambling to find dudes who can do things besides carry a gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woD44CsR4jg&t=618s
These are gonna be the same people. They got most of the cities to surrender basically by bribing officials and telling them they're gonna retain their spot if they surrender. You don't have to replace everyone immediately, you just have to get them to do your thing.
It's not great, bad times are gonna be had, but at least in Kabul they've declared a general amnesty so they're not going to shoot women and hang people on the street like in the cities where their militias have broken through without command discipline.
I genuinely think that they are surprised by the total collapse and are scrambling to establish Civilian command of their irregulars and form a government. I was a pessimist and I thought on Friday they'd last a week before Kabul fell.
Of course, that won't save hardline supporters of the state. There's 4 jets parked on the runway at the airport rn, packed with refugees, but they can't take off because the US have parked 2 chinhooks and a c130 right on the tarmac.
It’s crazy to think in concrete terms what establishing a government would be like. The government here is such an abstract, distant thing and they’re like, no we need to find people who can go collect taxes and people who will be responsible for this area and that area. Like they’ve got to be currently appointing people to just pick up work as they realize it needs done.
Not trying to romanticize the Taliban. Just a moment of this process finally occurring to me. A “government is just people” thing
Yeah, as an aside, that's why things like mutual aid and establishing dual power institutions are so important. It's relatively easy to topple a system, it's hard to do it while keeping the power on and the food shipments incoming.
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Loved the look at people doing that in the vice doc on the Russian seperatists in Donetsk, just scrambling to find dudes who can do things besides carry a gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woD44CsR4jg&t=618s
This is a really interesting problem that I think about sometimes. It really puts into perspective how unorganized we are.
These are gonna be the same people. They got most of the cities to surrender basically by bribing officials and telling them they're gonna retain their spot if they surrender. You don't have to replace everyone immediately, you just have to get them to do your thing.
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