the pervasive sentiment on :reddit-logo: is that the Taliban are just wantonly raping and pillaging, but how much of that is reality vs typical :amerikkka: jingoism.
it doesn't make sense to me why the nominal liberators of the imperialist regime would just turn around and destroy the same country that they're liberating. though I don't doubt that it must be happening at some level, surely the incidence of rape and murder is less than that inflicted by actual invaders, right? I just would have to believe that there would be fighting going on from many pockets if such acts were occurring at large scales.
its basically just gonna be a flip, during the war ppl in the country had it the worst, getting bombed and murdered while ppl in the city enjoyed peace/defense.
Now ppl in the country don't have to worry about walking in the wrong area and getting murdered for no reason by US/ in the past Soviet troops. (many remote villages upon meeting US soldiers thought they were the Soviet soldiers they had heard rumors about through the years) while the people in the city lose a lot of rights and western luxuries that were brought by NATO