• @thebestaquaman
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    2821 days 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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      621 days 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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        621 days 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.

    • @Scolding7300
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      321 days ago

      From what I learned from RealLifeLore’s video (YT or nebula) is that a major factor was that they were still a bit tribal, one city’s guard didn’t want to lose their lives for the next city/area

      • @thebestaquaman
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        421 days ago

        I’ve heard this explanation before as well, that essentially nobody felt any loyalty to the national government. You could kind of tell why when the whole government just evacuated the country when the west left.