• @thebestaquaman
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    2010 hours ago

    It just doesn’t stop baffling me how quickly the Afghan army folded to these people and accepted this as their future… just tragic all around

    • @assembly
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      48 hours ago

      I keep thinking the same thing. When it was all happening, I kept thinking that maybe the frontline troops were green and just in shambles but surely they had real troops in the ranks that would step up. It turns out they had like one group of real troops and that was it.

      • @SupraMario
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        245 minutes ago

        The majority of the troops we trained were ex-taliban. Everyone knew it. The one thing that most people don’t understand is that Afghanistan isn’t really a country like most other countries, it’s just a shit load of tribes, they have no national interest. So they don’t care what happens halfway across the country.