• @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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        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.

  • @moistclump
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    1711 hours ago

    That’s so heartbreaking. I can’t imagine the level of isolation it would feel to be a woman under Taliban rule.

  • Flying Squid
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    37 hours ago

    Hey Taliban… if you’re a woman and you’re in a tiled room and you say something and you hear your echo, does that count?

    • @NeilBru
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      The belief that militant religious conservatism will guarantee power over others.

  • @[email protected]
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    1512 hours ago

    So first no singing in public because I assume their women are equalivement to sirens of the sea. Now this! They gonna do mutilation next?

  • anon6789
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    710 hours ago

    A senior Taliban official told The Telegraph of frustration from moderates with the more hardline elements of the regime.

    “Someone should stop the supreme leader. Many within the Taliban are angry and worried that, with everything the leadership is doing, we could lose Afghanistan as quickly as we took it,” he added.

    “They are worried that as soon as an alternative to the Taliban appears, the people will revolt, and the West will bomb us again,” the official explained.

    I don’t know if any country is eager to return after the failures of Russia and the US. The worry about another warlord type offering even a few lost freedoms back though absolutely seems like a valid concern though to the current regime.

  • @xc2215x
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    512 hours ago

    Something you would expect from them.

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    -2010 hours ago

    Sorry Afghan woman, Americans don’t give a shit about you unless the news tells them to. The murderous Americans are busy moralizing about someone else right now.

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      What’s your geopolitical cure for this? What foreign/military policy change from the U.S. government would sit well with you regarding this issue? I’m interested to hear it.

      Should the US invade Afghanistan again?

      Because as an American, I care very much, but I’m reluctant to go over to Afghanistan and fight an armed insurgency against the Taliban without an imminent NATO re-invasion planned after what will likely have to be months of guerrilla warfare to free the women of Afghanistan.

      Oh wait, I remember now, “Americans dumb, ha ha.”