• ephrin@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Cue the idiots from .ML saying that the Taliban are the good guys because they’re fighting western imperialism.

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      5 months ago

      Names have changed, but isn’t Taliban basically the guys that kicked Russian ass few decades ago?

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        5 months ago

        The Taliban were founded in Kandahar in 1994, their founder and many of the experienced fighters who joined them had previously been Afghan mujahideen though. There were a lot of factions that were fighting each other in the aftermath of the Soviet-supported government’s collapse since the broad group of Afghan mujahideen agreed on fighting the Soviets but not on all the other things.