The Taliban have allegedly purchased satellite jammers from Iran to disrupt the last remaining independent television channel reporting on the regime’s brutal crackdown on human rights.
Iran’s assistance helped the Taliban leaders acquire orbital jammers for the satellite stations of the Afghanistan International Television and shut down broadcast for more than a week, AITV’s executive editor Harun Najafizada told The Independent.
The channel is popular among Afghans for their critical coverage of the country’s hardline Islamist regime.
Taliban officials reportedly sent disruptive signals from a ground station within Afghanistan to the satellite, interfering with its broadcast. Hundreds of people in Afghanistan saw a blank screen from 5 September to 13 September before the channel shifted to a different satellite frequency.
That sucks, but I don’t think the West, nor China and very not Russia are willing to waste hundreds of thousands of soldiers lives for everything to be exactly the same again in 20 years. Afghanistan actively rejects civilisation.
In 1916 France and the UK create the Sykes-Picot secret agreement with agreement of Russia and Italy to divide the middle east in a way so they would never be able to pose any threat and could be easily manipulated into their spheres of influence, by cutting through areas of ethnic and religious affiliations.
108 years later on Lemmy “Afghanistan actively rejects civilization”. It’s just unfair to say such a thing when so many civilizations have contributed so much to ensure Afghanistan would never be able to be politically and economically stable.
If anything, everyone should stop sending soldiers to Afghanistan and simply support them humanitarily throughout the long road of recovery ahead of them from what has been done to them for the last 100 years. Ideally, France and the UK should be bearing the brunt of the cost of that humanitarian effort, but in practice, it’s difficult to pin the blame on modern day France and UK of their forefathers’ sins.
Sykes-Picot didn’t concern Afghanistan in the least.
In this much, there’s agreement - Afghanistan has never had a foundation that could be regarded as politically or economically stable, and the constant attempts to convert it into a politically or economically stable state have been utterly unsuccessful because of the actual conditions of the country.
You’re correct, my apologies. I was confusing my Middle Eastern history. In my comment, where it reads that the French and British are to blame for the divisions through ethnic and religious lines, it should be the Russians and the British, during their sphere of influence games, which eventually coalesced Afghanistan’s borders into the Durand line, with further meddling by the Soviets later on. But the whole comment still maintains pretty much the same sentiment. Nevertheless, thank you for pointing out my mistake and helping me remember it correctly. I will try to do better to reinforce my weaknesses in history knowledge.
I may be misunderstanding the point on your last paragraph, but i wouldn’t consider it is an inherent quality of the country, culture or people that prevents stability within the country, but the countless meddling with its affairs by different countries. None of these countries (including the US) have meaningfully attempted to change anything in the country with the purpose to make it more stable. Instead, the changes that have been attempted have been more towards making the country more useful/pliable to the sphere of influence of the country that is occupying/influencing it for purposes other than the country’s best interests.
That may be a nature of its geographical location and the importance it had throughout history, but nevertheless i sure hope we will arrive at some point in the future where the country will be able to stabilize and stand on its own and it will never be through the means of the establishment of a puppet government. I believe it’s precisely by leaving it alone and providing humanitarian aid that the country will find stability, as previously said.
Is your argument that multiple empires have tried bombing Afghanistan into being a civilized country, but by golly, they want to be savages?
Do you maybe want to, and I’m just brainstorming here, play that out in your head a few more times and rethink your response?
> say they reject civilisation > Ignore the resistance movements and organisations actively fighting Taliban rule > Ignore the independent media organisations being crushed by the Taliban for speaking out against the Taliban > Ignore the people fleeing Afghanistan every day because of the Taliban. > Ignores the geopolitical fuckery that gave rise to the modern state of Afghanistan. > Ignores that the Taliban was formed from the Mujahedeen, an organisation funded by the US to fight the Soviets.Yes, clearly the Afghani people are savages who cannot be redeemed. There’s no external factors for the clusterfuck that is the Taliban. Anyone who says otherwise is a liberal hippy. /s
„They hate us for our freedom!“ eh?