• donuts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah man, I feel sorry for the people who will have to live under the fucking Taliban, but we’ve spent way too much time, money and blood on Afghanistan already.

    We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but for them to just instantly roll over to the Taliban… Just compare it to Ukraine, where they are fighting for their lives and freedom against a much more powerful enemy.

    It’s long past time for Afghanistan to deal with their own problems.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, like what do they expect? Another foreign military intervention?

      That will not happen again for decades at best. Longer if all the developed nations really learn from America’s mistake this time.

      Sure, we can sanction them, but any aid just gets intercepted, so that’s out. It sucks so many Afghans are suffering under the system, but it’s the system they let happen. Did they want to be an occupied country forever? Was this a fight America was expected to wage indefinitely? Twenty years was already too long.

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      1 year ago

      They should have trained the Afghani women who have an actual reason to fight against the Taliban, instead of the lazy men who instantly capitulated.

    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Tbf Afghanistan defeated a much stronger Russia back in the 80s.

      With less help than Ukraine gets.

      Edit: so the downvotes are just ignorant of history or are they trying to rewrite it to suit their own agendas? Regardless, not a good sign for the future.