To be fair, in the comments are some sources that made me go :bruh:
https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/p75ca8/context_unncessary/
Edit: I did find a “tankie” that says “prolonging the civil war + US occupation would be worse than a Taliban peace”, also coupmed with "the immediate fall of the Afghan military is proof that the Taliban are more legitimate rulers than the US puppet government". See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1i0ipzS754
I think history has shown this tends not to work out very well
Name literally anything history has shown to work well. It doesn’t exist .
Economic progress leading to social progress
Counterpoint: America
America had uneven economic progress and also uneven social progress.
Social progress for the rich, not the poor, same as everything else.