• donuts@kbin.social
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    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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      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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      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.

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        I never thought about this at the time. It was all just shocking and frankly pathetic. Didn’t realize the men had the least at stake, while women had the most, but were not allowed to join the fight. Many men probably didn’t care or even resented the “changes”. (Women’s rights. Sounds familiar. MAGA?) Unwilling to put up any kind of fight for that kind of future for their partners and daughters.

        I wonder what most Afghan women think of these men now. And if joining the military was ever a realistic possibility, and could have changed the result.

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      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.