How Come Afghanistan hasn’t Collapsed?

[@real1cytv]

A big thing you missed is the Afghan warlords. The last time the Taliban were in power, they were harshly opposed by local Afghan warlords. These were also supposed to help stop the Taliban advance. However for some reason or another they have often actually allied with the Taliban and aren't fighting them and are instead aiding them which makes it far easier for the Taliban to rule the rural parts of Afghanistan.

[@sylviamontaez3889]

that's true. there's some holdouts in panjishir but they control no territory

[@TheBooban]

@liltrip6511utter nonsense. The only force used is the taliban who force everyone to their way.

[@ExarchGaming]

@@dsff6288 we have zero problem with them doing what they want to do; the problem begins when they're hosting ISIS and Al Queda training camps. Afghanistan was a quagmire created by george w bush, but for some reason Obama didn't pull out of there like he promised, though his VP finally pulled through. There was an expectation that the training the afghani army got would be enough to combat the taliban, but most of them just laid down their weapons or switched sides. Like people in 2003-2004 were saying, we went in with zero exit strategy. The US's position as the sole world superpower at the time made the prospect of fighting the Taliban fairly hard, as they didn't adhere to any form of rules of war. We could have just carpet bombed them to kingdom come like Russia is doing in Ukraine, but that status as the world super power made us adhere to a very strict rule of engagement. As long as they mind their own damn business and don't start training terrorists to attack "the west" let them do whatever they want, they're that region's problem.

[@JamesL42]

​@liltrip6511​ Most Islamic countries are secular idiot. Get an education before you mouth off one about things you have no understanding of

[@lambert801]

I wonder why that is.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

I remember hearing from a couple of veterans who served in Afghanistan that our western understanding of centralized governments is kind of the wrong way to look at Afghanistan. That Afghanistan as a whole has always been very tribal and many Afgahnis don't really see themselves as members of a nation state like many other countries do. And that the person "in charge" of Afghanistan is more or less just the group that represents the region on the world stage, but otherwise holds minimal authority over how the tribes and clans conduct their own affairs. So the idea of the central government "falling" doesn't really have the same impact in Afghanistan as it would in say a highly centralized western country

[@yasminea7149]

They see themselves as members of a nation state, however, their idea of the govt in Kabul is different. Although most ppl outside AFG think Afghans don't know or want democracy - it is actually quite different. Most Afghans are rural and for centuries have been very active in local direct tribal democracy. They don't care who sits in govt in Kabul as long as it doesn't impact them too much. Kabul govt's arm is too weak and too far away. All politics is local. Afghans are very egalitarian. You don't like something? You go to the weekly or other regular shuras/councils and speak your mind. You don't need a representative. There is no rank or class. A poor person/farmer has the same right to talk as the village elder, rich person, or religious leader. Anyone can become a mullah or a village leader; these are not inherited leader positions. You earn respect only because of old age or you have accomplished something like education, skill, or some achievement. Otherwise, just bc you happen to be the son of the village elder or some rich person, it's irrelevant in the shura. It is only the urban population in big cities like Kabul, who are different. So, the previous govt fell and Taliban took over. What do the rural locals care? Their lives go on, they still rely on each other and their local systems. In fact, life is now safer because there is no war, no constant interventions by foreign and Afghan soldiers, less people dying, etc.

[@ashketchum5466]

Taliban is pashtun group, pashtuns make up majority.

[@MrDibara]

So, would consider the Afghanistan a commonwealth or a federation be more accurate? 😕 I think I'm getting the idea you're passing, I'm just syruggling to find a good way to name it or describe it.

[@MrDibara]

​@@yasminea7149 VERY insightful comment, holy shit! 😃 Thank you for sharing this knowledge, it was intriguing and fascinating.

[@__Man__]

You can see the difference between people from West/South Asia and Europe. The West/South Asians tend to live and normalise the parallel society, while the Europeans tend to centralise and build social cohesion in their country, in fact some countries who are ethnically diverse such as France and Spain will still be forced by the civic nationalism to build a social cohesion from every community in the country. I argue about this many times with European far-rights why West Asian and South Asian migrants tend to live in a parallel society rather than integrate to a centralised society especially in those who are in European countries. That's why the idea of "adapt and integrate" won't work for people from this region unless their mindset is Westernised.

[@bikkiikun]

People tend to forget a couple of important things... It's not the US retreat that allowed the Taliban to regain power. It was (and still is) first and foremost the Afghan people who allowed it. Just one example, the Afghan forces actually had broad control across the country (not perfectly, but reasonably well)... as long as they were paid directly by the US. Once the Afghan government took over that task, payments to the soldiers vanished... and with it the will to fight.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Why the Hell would they want an even more moral 😇 fanatical government than the Taliban?

[@markcreamer6179]

I didn't know that.

[@CarlosSpicyWang]

Plus, a majority of Afghans wanted to beat their wife's and other women. But the US wouldn't allow that, so the Afghans allowed the Taliban to take over so that they can beat their wives and other women.

[@ricequackers]

Very much. Despite 20 years of Western-led nation building, the people turned around and simply let the Taliban right back in without a fight. We shouldn't bother lifting a finger to help anymore.

[@markcreamer6179]

@@ricequackers they like their culture the way it has always been. Since they don't actually threaten us, let's just leave them to it.

[@sonneh86]

It's hard to collapse when you're already broken

[@jakedias6123]

🤣🤣😂

[@NewerSwagger-gp3hj]

Any country Can Always go lower. Weirdly, IT COULD BE SO MUCH WORSE.

[@CarlosSpicyWang]

​@NewerSwagger-gp3hj If you're a woman, you get beaten and raped constantly in Afghanistan. It's already worse.

[@DragonCaptain]

​@@NewerSwagger-gp3hj simply because it can doesn't mean that may usually be the case

[@benjamincolon5486]

The lowest a country can go is Somalia

[@thepax2621]

"Nowhere to go but Up" has its advantages, even if you currently stay at the very bottom. Maybe Afghanistan just can't really "collaps" any further, it will either get better or it won't, but thats it.

[@Toe-Mass]

If history is an indication then things can always get worse

[@simonhadley8829]

You can't pop an empty balloon.

[@llamaboss1434]

No. Look at the percentage of Afghans on food aid. It can get so much worse for them, if the charitable hearts of their enemies close.

[@mobashshirkareem976]

There can always be a million percent hyperinflation like in Zimbabwe or Weimar republic. There can always be mass starvation like in Yemen. Afghanistan still has some room to sink even deeper.

[@lIsamirIl]

@@llamaboss1434 Allowing them to use half of their money do buy food while stealling the other half. So charitable. Why are Afeghanistan money being taken for suposed "9/11 victims" if the 9/11 was executed by Al-Qaeda, a Saudi Arabian organization, not Taliban or Afeghanistan?

[@fractal_gate]

Why is Afghanistan a "pariah state"? Doesn't this term seem subjective? Why does the US want them to "collapse" so much and what good would that do?

[@ptonpc]

'Pariah' state since it doesn't respect basic human rights, rule of law etc. It exports terrorism (Something Pakistan is finding, after having funded and harboured the Taliban for decades. Turns out that encouraging a bunch of violent fundamentalist thugs who want to destroy your way of life is not a good thing. What a surprise). Funding for afghan civilians is taken by the Taliban, so it doesn't get to them. Thus, don't fund the violent fundamentalists. As for Afghanistan collapsing? Would any one really notice the difference? Yes yes, I know you're going to say something about Russia / China being the real defenders of civilisation etc.

[@meatrealwishes]

Lol, for the (alleged) muslim world, Afghanistan remained a pariah state all those 20 years. They literally prayed for it to go back to square one.

[@fractal_gate]

What makes it a pariah state for the Muslim world?@@meatrealwishes

[@StayActive98]

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[@mottom2657]

@@meatrealwishes If you think that a couple of wealthy Bedouins represent the Muslim world, you're so wrong.

[@theconqueringram5295]

Afghanistan isn't a modern state, it's more of a medieval polity with modern technology than anything else. The Taliban rule with alliances with the tribal leaders and warlords and from what I understand, an informal economy operates in Afghanistan.

[@laughingseal2282]

Yeah, because being occupied by 2 f3cking decades, having your land plundered of any resource and your infrastructure destroyed and weapons given to the jihadists is totally their fault too. Oh yeah, Biden also stole these 7billion.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

there is so much internal thongs going on that only people in the know understand and the powers that be remember they didnt destroy talliban they left it to taliban so thats a clue and pakistan is being paid by powers that be who have intrest in afghanistan but dont want be physically their with their own armies instead local proxies and private mercanary groups like blackwater so what you see is surface level thats why few weeks before you were hearing brits wanting to recognise them for other reasons which would long time to explain

[@tedmoss]

Operates? operates? Without goods? without a means of exchange, except selling your children? They have nothing, nothing!

[@গুরুত্বপূর্ণউপপাদ্য]

​@@tedmossAsk Russian and Chinese Miners and Engineers who are busy 24/7 inside Afghanistan about ur opinion. U have no idea what is hidden under that land.

[@tedmoss]

@@গুরুত্বপূর্ণউপপাদ্য O yes I do. but it won't get the Afghan's much, the Russians will take all the profits.😁

[@Nasafalkas1]

It actually sounds like the Taliban have done a much better job at stabilising Afghanistan, than the Americans did in Iraq. That's bizarre.

[@garyanderton]

Cause they have. My mum went there a few months ago: Unlike last time she was there, nobody attempted to undress her with their eyes. Under the previous regime you had warlords like Dostum that would kidnap women and return them after they were done with them. This stuff doesn't happen anymore. Yes they have limited women's access to school, but I don't believe that will last as the Taliban leaders have daughters that went to school. That hypocrisy is being called out regularly. The only good thing about them is that less people are dying. For a country to progress, you need to stop the deaths. Then we can maybe progress to developing schools.

[@thedictationofallah]

Shariah law works beautifully. Unless its radicalised

[@Meinan4370]

For now but knowing afganistan it won’t be for long. The American presence did largely increase standard of living in afganistan when the Taliban were hiding in the mountains

[@ArthurDavis89]

@@Meinan4370lol name one infrastructure project America did in Afghanistan. It was Afghans that did it and it is Afghans that are doing it even under sanctions. They predicted mass starvations two times and nobody has died are malnourished.

[@yusufali2368]

@@Meinan4370 I am against the Taliban completely 100%, but I have to disagree with you that American presence increase standard in Afghanistan. Because when Americans and British did come, more of their own bombs fell on the innocent citizens (which the crimes of NATO in Afghanistan just recently came out and are being looked into by the UN), also drugs increased by a lot in Afghanistan especially the cities that were controlled by NATO, one famous one being Britain which the city they were controlling in Afghanistan, the opium increased by a lot in that city and when Britain left that city the amount of opium decreased by 90% and majority of opium from Afghanistan was transported to Britain itself in lorries (of course Opium can be used as an illegal drug or for pharmaceutical purpose such as anaesthesia etc). Also America and NATO never made any permanent infrastructure in Afghanistan, in fact most of the great architecture, schools, hospitals, Universities and roads etc you see in Afghanistan was eider made by the Soviet Union, China, Russia or Afghans themselves. So in fact America and NATO being in Afghanistan had nothing to do with the wellbeing of the citizens or increasing their standard of living rather it was for something else which seem to have failed in that 20 years period. But yes I do agree that America and NATO did increase education by 5% in Afghanistan but if you compare that to how much the Soviet Union increased education in Afghanistan in 1979, you would find that America increase of 5% is literally nothing and shows that most money that was put in Afghanistan was only taken back by America almost creating a temporary or some people say fake economy which actually prevented for any further progress in Afghanistan and only promoted corruption especially the governments that was ruling Afghanistan during when American and NATO occupied Afghanistan was only picked and put in power by America and NATO themselves and not from democracy or voting. So that's the actual reality of Afghanistan when America and NATO occupied it, hence why majority of Afghans or any country that America creates war with wants America out.

[@iplaygames896]

You know it says a lot about people when they’re wishing that Afghanistan collapses instead of it prospering.

[@MrTux1204]

It's less that folks want a wasteland and more just want groups like the taliban to not have control.

[@fudgen.a1249]

I don’t think folks want Afghanistan to collapse, but where just expecting it due to the ruling governments nature.

[@iplaygames896]

@@MrTux1204yes that’s exactly the problem who are you to starve a people to impose your views of life.

[@katek6808]

Afghanistan collapsing is definitely preferrable to the Taliban increasing their power, expanding to other countries and convincing weak minds that theirs is the right way. The people there are already suffering and starving, so it really wouldn't make a difference to them if Afghanistan actually collapsed. Not a horrible thing to hope for, then.

[@dave_sic1365]

​@@iplaygames896i dont think you can dictate us to sell you anything, let alone share stuff for free. Exspecially when you hate our way of life,ridicule it or even attack us.

[@heisenbachofficial9437]

It doesn't have a state as we know it, so it is really hard to collapse.

[@douma3665]

It literally does 💀

[@spicychad55]

@@douma3665 Afghanistan's full of tribes that don't care about each other and don't think of themselves as "Afghans". The situation's similiar to Somalia.

[@Expocat69420]

@@spicychad55 The Taliban has a government, and those tribes swear fealty to the Taliban. That is literally a state, just a primitive type of state. Saying that means the Taliban doesn't have a state would be like saying most European feudal kingdoms didn't have states.

[@samiman5606]

@@spicychad55 You should way the locals afgan don't won't fight with the talibros because there's the correct hadit from the prophet Muhammad forbid à Muslim kill onother Muslim if someone ment to kill his brother Muslim is going to hellfire that's the reason why the local citizens whatcing from a far

[@naveedhasan5365]

It does 2023

[@moritamikamikara3879]

They haven't collapsed because there's nowhere further for them to collapse to XD The Afghan state is essentially the city state of Kabul because Afghanistan is ungovernable, it's not a country, and the Taliban know this.

[@baha3alshamari152]

Actually Taliban centralized the country more than any other administration since the 70's

[@oooshafiqooo]

you mean places that arent just mountains?

[@mrligmaball8877]

so what abot the other citys in afghanistan such as mazar i sharif, Kandahar, bayam and herat is that just a place where anyone can do anything? no its not, this is the first time that afghanistan has centralised

[@oooshafiqooo]

@@mrligmaball8877 ye

[@moritamikamikara3879]

@@mrligmaball8877These other cities will have their own vaguely Taliban affiliated governors, but nothing outside of that will honestly care what's going on in the cities.

[@MoorishMonitor]

Regardless of the disinformation spread by news agencies, the Taliban generally have widespread support, especially in much of rural Afghanistan.

[@solar0wind]

Wasn't rural Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban the whole time anyway? I think some regions there have been cut from the rest of the world for at least decades. The people don't know anything than Taliban rule. So for them there's no big difference.

[@গুরুত্বপূর্ণউপপাদ্য]

​@@solar0wind 40% Afghan population are tribal nomads and Afghanistan has the most conservative society on earth. Expecting mindset like a modern society there is foolishness.

[@معرفةوترفيه-ت2ظ]

@@গুরুত্বপূর্ণউপপাদ্য 40% of Afghanistan isn't nomadic. Almost all ethnic groups in Afghanistan (with the exception of the Aimaqs, Baloch and Turkmen who collectively make up less than 10% of the population and who live in the fringes of the country) are sedentary and have been for thousands of years.

[@phoenixrising8640]

Majority of us Afghans support Taliban and our Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan government. Most of Westerners can't accept this. The smart ones get it.

[@phoenixrising8640]

​@@solar0windmost of Afghanistan was ruled by our Taliban for years which is why the US had to negotiate the Doha deal for safe passage out of Afghanistan. Majority of us Afghans support Taliban...it's u foreigners and your Afghan puppets who can't accept and lie about this fact

[@Godfrey544]

It hasn't collapsed because as horrible as it is the system actually works. We know this because it HAS worked for centuries and its a system adapted to harsh circumstances and geography.

[@idrinkleadedgasoline]

has worked for centuries? what are you talking about? the taliban took power only two years ago and as a group they only go back to maybe the 70's.

[@Thijsb1301]

@@idrinkleadedgasolinehe’s talking about Sharia-autocracy ruling over various tribal peoples and cooperating with local elites.

[@Myanmartiger921]

@@Thijsb1301and starvation and 18th century lives

[@nntflow7058]

It can't collapse when its already collapsed.

[@oooshafiqooo]

@@Thijsb1301 weirdly different case i think. sharia law werent made that strict back in the days. it were only made strict in times of crisis then after everything stabilizes all goes well

[@gustavkrauspe3991]

I don't think people understand what sanctions mean. Afghans can import and export whatever they want but on 2 conditions 1- they are not allowed to use the USD, GBP, or EUR denominations, and 2- it can not be from a manufacturing company that is listed in the three countries. Otherwise, everyone else can do business with the Afghans with their own local money.

[@solar0wind]

Europe is a country?

[@KennyNGA]

So they can import and export everything they want except from and to the nations which sanctioned Afghanistan? Wow thanks for enlighten us Albert Einstein. Btw the EU has 28-30 countries and combined with our allies in Asia africa and round the world it's probably like 70 countries which sanctioned them which is almost half of all countries and probably 90% of modern product manufacturers

[@BestOpinionHaver]

@@solar0wind in some ways, yes.

[@solar0wind]

@@BestOpinionHaver It's not a country in any way. There's a lose union of most but not all! of the European countries.

[@arwinwest2505]

And that kinda narrows Afghanistan down to the Yuan or Ruble.

[@cz2301]

What does it mean to collapse anyway? To fall apart into the ocean? To turn into rubble?

[@skp8748]

Lol go watch walk around videos of kabul people are enjoying life

[@necropolistc6357]

​​@@skp8748you mean the men, not the people lol that includes women too

[@cyberverse9141]

​@@necropolistc6357typical Westerner "bu...but the women 😢"

[@necropolistc6357]

@@cyberverse9141 if you had a vagina I'd be a problem, sad troll is sad

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

This is a topic about the nation 🏛, not its people. Apples and oranges. The nation is doing well, mostly because it has a government that cares about development. And is less moral 😇 fanatical than the previous one. @@skp8748

[@aituk]

It's kindof like asking why the rundown dilapidated hovel hasn't collapsed just yet, it may happen it may not but ultimately it's still a ruin

[@maddogbasil]

Yh Probably cos the Americans bombed it to dust 🤦🤦 Imagine feeling proud about bombing a bunch of poor people into the dirt

[@drmodestoesq]

@@BlueIvory4 I noticed you left out the Russians bombing Aleppo into rubble.

[@jackforman561]

@@BlueIvory4 are you conveniently leaving out the Russians, who did most of the civilian bombing?

[@kimwit1307]

@@BlueIvory4 Most of the bombing was done by Assad and Putin.

[@jackforman561]

@@americancommunist7633 "The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016. The Violations Documentation Center, a Syrian civil monitoring organization, documented that the bombing campaign killed more than 440 civilians, including more than 90 children. Airstrikes often appeared to be recklessly indiscriminate, deliberately targeted at least one medical facility, and included the use of indiscriminate weapons such as cluster munitions and incendiary weapons." not false at all comrade. We can see the same MO in Ukraine too

[@runningriot9814]

Afghanistan 'collapsed' 40 years ago when the Soviets invaded and never recovered

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

Just an FYI Afghanistan was communist before the Soviets invaded, and stopped being communist 2 years after the USSR left, which is a bit longer than the 3 days the US' government lasted

[@SerbLawyer92]

Lol that is classic western propaganda. What about Murica freedom democracy?

[@mallardofmodernia8092]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback so? The government was highly unpopular and very far from the views of the masses and the soviets stepped in to stabilise a potential puppet state.

[@sergeykish]

​@@ASlickNamedPimpback USSR was totalitarian state. Such state holds not on support but on opression.

[@IndiaTides]

Oh...Afghan state was always playground for the great power politics. Nepolean+ Russia declared their desire to conquer India from British so Britishers played politics there to keep it buffer zone. They fought wars using Indians. Lost, temporarily won, controlled foreign policy for some time, lost again. The problem with Afghanistan is that it links central Asia with South Asia. Central Asia has influence of both Russia and China. South Asia is ground for Pakistan and India. Pakistan doesn't want Afghans to be rely on India. They want to capture power/make puppet out of them. India wants ally out of Afghanistan for both economic and strategic reasons. China have same ambition. They understood the politics of it but couldn't muster actual capacities of modern state to outmanuever those players.

[@arielquelme]

As far as i know Taliban never trade drugs. First interim 1996-2001 also saw drastic decrease of Afghanistan opium production

[@deidresable]

That is why US and nato sanction them

[@joeharris3878]

When all other nations have disappeared from the earth, the Afghans will still be standing. It's not called "the graveyard of empires" for nothing.

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

The Taliban have (so far, at least) defied the prediction by many that they would split in antagonistic factions. The factions are real, but the Taliban also has a central council which can arbitrate disputes before they get out of hand. The armed anti-Taliban resistance carried out by the National Resistance Front is not strong enough to challenge Taliban's control of any Afghan provinces.

[@baha3alshamari152]

Since October 2021 till today Taliban lost 45 soldiers Also Taliban recruit 63 new soldiers every day so no armed resistance can challenge them currently

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

@@baha3alshamari152 Alt-accounts with blank profiles spreading disinformation don't prosper.

[@phoenixrising8640]

We hate the NRF terrorists.they use ISKP as their proxy

[@wanaliff6518]

Ofc the National Resistance Front is not strong enough to face the Taliban. They are made up of notorious warlords such as General Dostum and Qasim Fahim that once ruled the rural regions of Afghanistan. They completely wrecked havoc and bloodshed in post-Soviet Afghanistan and is the actual reason why the Taliban was welcomed with open arms by most Afghans when they came into power the first time in the 90s. Let's not forget the fact that the Taliban ended the bloodshed in Afghanistan after decades of war

[@phoenixrising8640]

@@wanaliff6518 they ended the bloodshed of 2 wars TWICE. They defended, protected and freed us from the US and NATO foreign invader terrorists and their Afghan puppets, like Dostum and his other warlord friends. We don't want them back, nor small Masood who looks like Mickey Mouse amd is a mickey mouse rat.

[@kamel418]

People don’t understand that the Taliban is not Alqaeda. Sure they may not have the best laws and some of their decisions are not great but they are the government of Afghanistan. They’re not a fake government that the US put on the country to justify its occupation. They are far better for Afghanistan than any US/Soviet/British or any imperial occupation that will always destroy the country no matter what. It’s better to fix a broken system than broke it even further with war, terrorism and occupation of the country. Alqaeda is not any different than isis or the kkk. They’re not a government or representative of any country. So it’s stupid to justify the US occupation of Afghanistan because they have alqaeda. (Fan Fact: They didn’t even find their leader in Afghanistan. They found him in Pakistan. But Pakistan is a nuclear power so.. they didn’t try their lock)

[@melindacadarette3447]

Maybe for the men but the women, hell no...

[@kamel418]

@@melindacadarette3447 Like I said, they’re not the best But the solution is to fix them not destroy them

[@AntonArmsberg]

Well, if the Taliban is what the people of Afghanistan want, let them have it.

[@alexpotts6520]

And if it isn't?

[@zjeee]

Then they can oust then out themselves, they are not infants they can take their own initiatives.

[@Eddie_the_yandere_lover]

​@zjeee then let then have it instead of those retarded politics

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

Yeah, I'm sure bankers won't break the law. Prosecution is pretty harsh against them. Here's an extensive list of bankers that were prosecuted for things such as gross negligence that broke the entire economy:

[@VinnieG-]

idk I still feel more strongly against people who throw stone bricks at a 12 year old girl till she f*king dies

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

1. Trump.

[@hrr597]

​@@rizkyadiyanto7922 🤓🤓🤓

[@DrVictorVasconcelos]

@apsoypike1956 Generally speaking, executive officers have the duty to make sure their employees are not committing crimes in the exercise of their work, such as by packaging junk bonds with investment-grade bonds and selling all of them as safe bonds. If the violations are systemic, they can definitely be prosecuted for that. I get the idea that you're confusing duties with fiduciary duties, but they are not the same thing.

[@tedmoss]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Trump was a banker? I thought he was President.

[@baa0325]

I guess if your goal is to recreate the 7th century, you don't really need to be rich.

[@randomworld4662]

Well said lol

[@taznurislam8868]

Learnt it after getting kicked off in 20 long years . 😅😂🤣🤣🤣

[@noamansattar]

Afghanistan exports have bounced back to same levels as pre TALIB Their currency has appreciated post TALIB They are making small dams, canals for irrigation, extraction oil, aim to be wheat sufficient in few years, tourism has increased

[@akbtrip555]

The infrastructure investments had started pre and impacted by their attacks

[@farahabdulahi474]

tourism couldn't go any lower, of course it increased. It likely went from 3 digits to 4 digits. not even a million dollars worth of tourism

[@killersopgaming4350]

@@farahabdulahi474Mostly KZbinrs who risks their live for some views

[@ugot1try]

Talichads somehow stood up to the west by themselves

[@johnclark2212]

I had understood that the drug trade was actually higher and promoted when the US was in charge??

[@gruntlord6]

That's pretty much what the video said

[@nenasiek]

Yeah cause the taliban used it as a way of making money

[@kodvavi150]

​@@nenasiektaliban need more money now but they ban it, so stop lying and spreading propaganda against the Taleban

[@NahintheW]

​@@nenasiekLol

[@garymathewoo973]

I think it’s interesting how fentanyl is the new thing on the streets and actual heroin that’s made from opium in places like Afghanistan is becoming less prevalent. We left Afghanistan right when synthetic fentanyl really really started being apart of every single city in the country literally all over the streets it hasn’t slowed down yet either everyone knows of Fentanyl it’s like its own epidemic in the bigger opioid epidemic and the public is aware of it not just ppl dealing in the black market/ illicit drug market now that lab made synthetic opioids exist does the opium poppies matter as much as they used to? Any drug user will tell you they’re (US Government/CIA) are letting the fentanyl in along with everything else you can buy on the street. They are not stopping it and opium seems like it’s not as important as it was just 5-10 years ago in street drugs at least in the US.

[@abdelrahmanhassan7472]

Can you imagine the guy in this video saying 'independent journalism' while being super biased! That's disturbing.

[@tastycheesebooger]

You know, sometimes I talk to myself for no reason

[@tastycheesebooger]

Me too

[@bababababababa6124]

@@tastycheeseboogerme three

[@bababababababa6124]

me four

[@muslimresponse103]

the western media were also saying that millions of Afghan babies are going to starve but that never happened. the west would love to see Afghanistan collapse and the people suffer but then would throw a fit over too many Afghan refugees coming to Europe and the UK. western hatred and hypocrisy know no bounds! may Allah ﷻ bless and protect the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 🤲🏻 ameen. greetings of peace from a white British Muslim revert!

[@cyberverse9141]

Well said ❤

[@magnvss]

The country has been in a state of disaster for many decades, thinking that any "sanctions" can tumble a country that basically is adapted to live by its own and via illegal trade is incredibly myopic and ignorant. You can't miss what you never had. You can't hurt them further and only natural disasters or internal conflicts could make their lives worse, and even then, they will still survive (never turn into "modern" people). Plus the birthrate is high, still a country where high mortality is "solved" with high natality.

[@Adierit]

Sanctions aren't meant to tumble them anyways, it's to isolate them from foreign trade. Obviously any country would survive on its own as it did in the past, but with varying levels of comfort and commodities.

[@kashmirikk3138]

What if afghanistan conquers america in near future ?

[@louiscypher4186]

@@Adierit Ah yes isolating them couldn't possibly lead to them being dependant on criminals who help smuggling goods into the country as well as bringing in embargoed currency's. Nor could it possibly lead these isolated impoverished people more susceptible to propaganda about western infidels wanting to harm them and make them suffer. No sir I'm sure this wont end up causing any blowback whatsoever.

[@Adierit]

@@kashmirikk3138 Conquering a country that can simply nuke you isn't exactly feasible. Not to mention the entire population of the country having firearms.

[@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1]

BMA I like your understanding!!! (M.A)!!!

[@hkbigboss9336]

Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan zindabad 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️💪🏳️💪💪💪🏳️💪💪💪 love from panjsher

[@phoenixrising8640]

My Panjsheri Brother ❤❤❤🏳🏳🏳

[@AstridStatsYT]

Huh don't you mean this one 🇦🇫?

[@phoenixrising8640]

@AstridStatsYT No. He mean our Afghan white flag with the Shahada on it and not the blood-soaked NATO flag, which u are showing here

[@AstridStatsYT]

@@phoenixrising8640 since when did NATO made the historic Afghanistan flag

[@hkbigboss9336]

@@AstridStatsYT before I was supporter of northern alliance resistance but now i love our independent and crouption free government 🏳️ now I love 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️ this flag because nabi Mohammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam is best and kalima flag 🏳️🏳️ is best

[@khanhamid3744]

As an Afghan I just want to say we will not allow slavery.we are not your slaves. Proud to be from a nation that is ONLY one on the planet that doesn't accept slavery.

[@helenpauls1496]

The women would disagree. Imagine what a wonderful prosperous and functioning country it could be if you just worked together.

[@khanhamid3744]

@helenpauls1496 which women. The 1 percent or the 99. Let me get this straight. I am not saying that this is an Islamic system. Far from it. So yes, some laws are not Islamic. All the news you get is from Western media. Which is not right and biased. I will judge them on Islam. US just removed Pakistans PM. Is that democracy. Its democracy when you like it and dictatorship when you don't. It's that simple. Don't be so blind, little one

[@dave_sic1365]

We dont want to enslave you.

[@Hadeel-eq1dl]

​@@helenpauls1496majority of afghan women in Afghanistan are conservative and do not speak as if you know about afghan women.

[@ahmedmanzar4575]

millions of afghans have accepted slavery and have become slaves,both in afghanistan to taliban as well as in USA,UK, Pakistan,and even India

[@03.achyuthans39]

Afghanistan kinda shows how absolute monarchies worked in the past. Currently absolute monarchies have their power due to oppression of dissent or cause the public have given them all control for a better life. However it looks like in Afghanistan, like in ancient kingdoms, the people gave up the power just to stop the constant wars and death.

[@luisfilipe2023]

That’s not true. Most monarchs were loved by the people and cared for them

[@luisfilipe2023]

@@Truth_hurts488 what do you mean

[@cyberverse9141]

​@@Truth_hurts488There were many Great and Good Kings in Asia and Africa. Read some history kid. Good and Bad exists and existed everywhere

[@renatopereira2315]

@@luisfilipe2023 "Most monarchs were loved by the people". Im sure most people loved their monarchs, they were taught in the church pulpit that their monarchs were appointed by God. With lies like these you can get anyone to like a King. "and cared for them" Yeah im sure the monarchs cared a lot for their people while they feasted in their luxurious castles while doing no work meanwhile peasants, tied by law to the land they were born into, worked from sunrise to sundown, had no access to education and lived mostly lives of poverty and hard labour. Please take your monarchist propaganda elsewhere.

[@sympathiser_of_Germans_in_40s]

​@@Truth_hurts488funnily enough the op comment applies more to the West than anyone else, especially Europe and their many moronic wars.

[@PatriotMapper]

What all the Western analysts have failed to account for: the Taliban’s immense popularity among the Afghan people.

[@kodvavi150]

They will keep lying to keep themselves pleased for their delusional visions.

[@GamingChannel-ic3ng]

Not failed, they it do it on purpose......

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

And so all the US has done is let the people have what they wanted. If they later don’t like it then it’s on them cause they actively worked against another option so this is what they wanted

[@phillipholland6795]

Usual yellow journalism and propaganda from neo-Rome lol

[@yasminea7149]

@@GamingChannel-ic3ng Actually, I'm not sure they do it on purpose. Most westerners view AFG through the prism of a few select urban types of Afghans who impart their views and ideologies of AFG. I've often observed that ppl outside of AFG, for years, have been exposed to a curated version of Afghanistan, one that focuses on a very small percentage of Afghans and dismisses the majority.

[@Duncan23]

Afghanistan collapsed decades ago, a better question would be how can Afghanistan create a functioning state.

[@MijmerMopper]

I think you guys could really benifit from making the Brilliant pitches a bit more integrated, by wich I mean mention a connection between a specific course and the work for the actual segment the pitch is in.

[@sujimtangerines]

Like the recent TLDR Business video which was basically built on the courses used to make it.

[@flubadubdubthegreat1272]

Idiotic take. It's just an ad.

[@rajK29_]

​@sujimtangerines funny, that was the previous video i watched before coming here 😂😂

[@sujimtangerines]

@@rajK29_ Me too! That's why it was so fresh in my mind as exactly how it fit the OP's suggestion.

[@Kiririn_chan]

I like it more this way because I know to close the tab when I hear "here at TLDR..."

[@wh0_am_152]

It wasn't the withdrawal it was how it happened. And how support was instantly cut rather than easing the Afghan military into it, leading to confusion up and down the chains of command

[@phoenixrising8640]

No, Taliban were controlling most of Afghanistan for years and were gaining ground and support rapidly which is why the US had to negotiate the Doha deal for safe passage out of Afghanistan. Majority of us Afghans support Taliban and our Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan government now

[@JjkJjk-or9kc]

@@phoenixrising8640 lmao your ip location says something else tho Also your sequence of events is completely wrong,they didn't complete most of Afghanistan till usa announced they were getting out nor were they gaining ground rapidly lmao,safe passage out of Afghanistan?nope it was Trump who did it to earn political points otherwise a few thousand American soldiers wouldn't have a favourable kd ratio against the tliban you dmbfvck Why don't you migrate to Afghanistan instead?

[@danguee1]

3:59 That graphic misrepresents the situation. If it falls from 7000 to 860, that's a fall to just 12% left - not the 1% left your graphic is suggesting.

[@tedmoss]

Dead is dead, there is no percentage.

[@jackoh991]

I guess brilliant is helping that much

[@ptonpc]

TLDR does this a lot. It's as if they have a problem with basic numeracy and fact checking skills. They obviously don't do any of the courses they claim.

[@معاذمحمد-ص5ل]

الذين كفروا ينفقون أموالهم ليصدوا عن سبيل الله فسينفقونها ثم نكون عليهم حصرة ثم يغلبون والذين كفروا الى جهنم يحشرون.

[@chairde]

Leaving Afghanistan was a good move. The equipment we left quickly went useless because of lack of maintenance except for small arms which are used against Iran. That’s 3 D chess.

[@Eddie_the_yandere_lover]

And starting a war before that also helped huh?

[@yourservice111]

The West is talking and talking about the collapse of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban, and later on they eat what they say. 5 to 10 years from now, you can see Afghanistan is one of the most growing and developed economies in Central Asia. They have resilient people and can manage to be self-sustainable even without the aid of the UN. The Qosh Tepa Canal project is a game changer for the Afghan economy.

[@rook3313]

It is hard to break the will of the people in charge (seen in the war in afghanstan VS the United States) so if it does collapse the people in charge would quickly try to regain control Edit:thanks for the 150 likes I didn’t think my comment would get this many

[@WackadoodleMalarkey]

It's good to be King - -King Kong- - Godzilla

[@tedmoss]

If they could regain control they wouldn't have lost it in the first place. Its a facade.

[@rook3313]

@@tedmoss they lost it due to foreign backing aka the USA but now that the U.S military backed off I don’t think they will lose control

[@tedmoss]

Most people don't understand the people that are impoverished, they will do just about anything to eat.

[@rook3313]

But the government has control over the food and would most likely give it to the most loyal so the ppl would probably stay loyal for food

[@creatoruser736]

Why do other countries always get blamed for hurting Afghan civilians by not providing aid? The Taliban is in control, they're responsible for looking after the people. They made promises, which they didn't keep, which is why foreign aid was cut. It's always international providers who get flack for not helping the citizens of another country when their own government is the one failing to provide for them. The Taliban won, they wanted foreigners out and they got it. This is their victory, not anyone else's responsibility.

[@the80386]

USA withheld several billion dollars of Afghanistan's money - not aid - their own money. With that money, the rebuilding efforts would've been easier.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@the80386oh yes the money afghan has. That yeh US gave them. Any day now the Taliban is going to repay the trillion spent on afghans right?

[@the80386]

No, not the one US gave to them, I specifically mentioned the amount from Afghan reserves. speaking of spending 'the trillion', Afghans never asked for USA to spend a trillion to bomb and destroy their country for 20+ years. and that money helped Neither the Afghan, nor the USA citizens. most of it was washed out through Afghanistan to line the pocket of defence & security contractors, corrupt US politicians and corrupt and selfish Afghan politicians who now live lavish lives in the USA while their own people struggles without food and shelter back home.

[@johannes6157]

Sending billions of dollars to the Taliban would not change ANYTHING for the average Afghan.

[@SaruyamaPL]

I say give them their money and let them waste it. The situation wont change for the citizen obviously but at least then we can all abandon Afganistan guilt free. Let them be their own ruin.

[@andy.8444]

It's hard to collapse when there’s nothing to collapse.

[@MsMRkv]

It could always get worse.

[@ChinnuWoW]

They've survived on their own throughout their entire history. Why would they collapse?

[@02Tony]

They have collapsed a few times before, before the taliban you had the democratic government it took over. The communist government and the monarchy.

[@jotarokujo9164]

As an Uzbek Norwegian, Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan was a horrible new for us. Central Asia is long encircled by expansionist Russia and China, plus an Iranian regime that embraces terrorism. Now Taliban effectively locked us into a position of no return. And it is worth much to say many Central Asians now see Pakistan with deeper disdain due to Pakistan's role in causing such a tragedy to Afghanistan - their selfish desire of having Afghanistan as a raw material state for Pakistan and its greedy authoritarian neighbours destroy all. At some points, I have to clarify that we have nothing to prefer from Taliban. We see them delusional and anti-Islam. But as long as it has enough backers like China, Pakistan, Russia or tacitly like Iran and Saudi Arabia, plus Afghan people's unwillingness, it won't collapse.

[@kashmirikk3138]

Better care about urself in norwegian

[@jotarokujo9164]

@@kashmirikk3138 Better care about your bankrupt Pakistan.

[@jotarokujo9164]

@@snoopysnoops007 I have always been fluent in my birth language. And we care about our country. Do you even care? Look at the chaos in Pakistan.

[@solar0wind]

​@@snoopysnoops007Your ethnicity and your nationality can differ...

[@bunnystrasse]

Islam is the wrong religion for you bro

[@B1_66ER]

I wanted to know which analyst said that the Taliban government was likely to collapse.

[@phoenixrising8640]

The same analyst who said that NATO will win the war 😂😂😂

[@abdulali5697]

40% of food insecurity was always there even during NATO occupation

[@JJ-si4qh]

4:00. So you're saying the ragtag Taliban could do in less than a year what the multi national cooperation of the US, DEA, NATO, etc couldn't do with poppy in 20 years? It's almost like it was intentional

[@mohammadabubakar1132]

Obviously it was intentional, the cia are the biggest drug dealers of the world get with it bro

[@ptonpc]

Well the Taliban was getting the farmers to grow poppies in the first place. Then you had the corrupt officials taking bribes to let it happen.

[@phoenixrising8640]

US and NATO foreign invader terrorists soldiers were openly guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan during the foreign occupation

[@faazk]

Half of the video was continuous repeating of the the title I'm different forms, last two mins advertisment. Only 2 mins actually tells something

[@Clone683]

At this point sanctions are basically "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results"

[@iplaygames896]

Genuinely psychotic they should lift sanctions and let their people thrive and prosper ironically this would probably put their woman in education faster.

[@loganiushere]

I mean, what else is there to do? Do you just on trying to influence the terrible regime to be less terrible or do you invade again? Don’t get me wrong, I think we should lift the sanctions (ideally in exchange for reforms), but I get why we keep using sanctions. Without money, when diplomacy fails, the only option left to influence a country is war.

[@randomuser.6932]

In your mind, it's better to do business with an extremist authoritarian regime then?

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

We were supposed to expect sanity?

[@ChinnuWoW]

@@randomuser.6932 Do you expect sanctions will convince them to stop being authoritarian? When has that ever worked in history? It'll only keep the people poor.

[@aze94]

The invisible hand of the market has proven to be no match for the very visible iron fist of the autocrat

[@CultureCrossed64]

This comment made me chuckle more than it should

[@iplaygames896]

Who is the autocrat the ones that bomb and pillage countries for the last 6 decades or the ones that are defending themselves against foreign oppressors ?

[@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1]

BMA Invisible hands of "The God" is far superior then anything visible or invisible!! Only if you knew!!!

[@saltmerchant749]

It has "collapsed", but it's a decentralised feudal/tribal system with a nominal political centre in Kabul with a nominal government of the Taliban who have a "don't mess with us, we won't mess with you" agreement with the tribal leaders of the various fiefdoms. It has always been that way and will always be that way, because the geography of the land dictates it. It was the height of hubris to imagine that a nation much less a democratic one, could be invented from whole cloth by the likes of Bush, Blair, Cheney and Bolton.

[@mohammadkhan7895]

Wrong. Taliban have absolute power over every single village of the country

[@_Sami_H]

The sad truth is that dying starving illiterate and dirt poor people don't make good revolts...that's kinda of a fact....

[@baha3alshamari152]

People seem to forget that

[@UmQasaann]

​@@baha3alshamari152They would be fighters because they have nothing to lose.

[@baha3alshamari152]

@@UmQasaann No because they can't be organized enough nor powerful enough

[@SubBrief]

Failure in a failed state is not obvious.

[@picachuface]

So there will be no more success in a successful state?

[@rorytribbet6424]

I lowkey thought this was West Virginia at first out of the corner of my eye 😂

[@drifta2001]

Something everyone is missing. These guys have nothing, other than their land and their ways. Many an empire has tried to hold this land and all have failed. These guys are tough, crazy and do not fear anything, especially death. They literally wear their coffins on their head. You’re never going to defeat the Taliban.

[@legomovieman2]

This is like asking "Why was Germany so good at rebuilding their military from nothing?" As other commentators said, they're starting from nothing, with allied warlords, a favourable China. The West will have to recognise them eventually.

[@crash.override]

It's the next North Korea, minus the nukes. Authoritarian. Sanctioned to heck by the West. Friendly with China. Lacking any critical commodity that would make it worth the West's while to make deals with them (contrast: the oil-rich Gulf states).

[@kashmirikk3138]

Maybe tomorrow they will conquer west

[@phoenixrising8640]

​@@kashmirikk3138😂😂😂

[@NawazKhan-ui6eo]

@@kashmirikk3138 maybe in a decade or so

[@WARLORDDOM]

​@@NawazKhan-ui6eono way lmao The last thing these guys want are 100's of nukes raining down of afghanistan Also Afghan population is concentrated in few cities , so it's relatively easy picking

[@olagokeadeyemi4905]

Lost me when he referred to US embassy I'm Kenya as Africa. This is an elite channel...

[@NasirKhan-fx8hq]

Afghanistan is surviving of its own efforts and clean administration. Corruption free ruling.

[@markcreamer6179]

The Afghans have been living at a medieval subsistence level for millennia. They simply aren't interested in having a modern nation. The ones who do want that leave. We should have gotten Bin Laden and left.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

The funny thing is, if the taliban just handed him over then they wouldn't have been bothered by the US...

[@markcreamer6179]

@mrslinkydragon9910 true but they've never really cared about it anyone else

[@markcreamer6179]

Typo,never cared about anyone else

[@michaelarmstrong9722]

Sanctions do nothing against autocratic governments. There is no other way to hurt that type of regime but what do I know eh?

[@b.p4034]

​@@toromontana8290Russia ,North Korea, Iran ,Venezuela, Nicaragua ,Eritrea,Belarus ,Myanmar etc? Theese countries are proof that sanctions do not work. if they can't get poor Nicaragua with a weak military to change policies how can they hurt regimes that are much better organized. Dumb

[@shadowleon659]

That stupid 20 year war was a complete waste of time. If this war wasn't mishandled, it would have ended as soon as it started.

[@MrBrockHeinz]

I think we need to stop with the simplistic analysis of whether certain economic sanctions are "only bad for the people." This is essentially never the case, sanctions are pretty much always bad for the government and the people. And removing them is vice versa. When all money filters through the government, there isn't a clean way to help the people without helping the government. The Taliban might maintain control despite the sanctions, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't even more easily maintain control without them. Govs are always limited by the amount of resources they have, the more they have, the more they can do, the less they have, the less they can do. As with anything else.

[@baha3alshamari152]

Just because US and EU sanctioned them doesn't mean China and Russia do

[@alexc6926]

Completely true only idealists who don’t operate in reality believe that sanctions only “hurt the people”. They can say whatever they won’t but the sanctioned government is operating with less space available, which is the point

[@domhamai]

Why do you feel the need, or more concerning, the right, to meddle in another nation’s affairs? Different people hold different values and the western need to impose itself upon every corner of the earth is disgusting. The world used to be a magical place of diversity and wonder. Now everyone wears the same clothes and lives a semi conscious life, enslaved to debt and bureaucracy. Let these people get on with themselves.

[@tedmoss]

More like the more you have the more you can steal.

[@MrBrockHeinz]

@@domhamai It's natural human behaviour that you see all over the world. When Nike said they won't do business in Chinese provinces that include slave labour, Chinese citizens did a march demanding an end to trade with western companies, as they care a lot about national pride. When Europe supported Ukraine during the invasion, Russia cut off gas supply, as they care a lot about the invasion. Free trade benefits both parties, so if you don't want the other side of benefit, then it makes sense to cut off trade. And that's what sanctions are. They're the national equivalent of voting with your wallet by choosing not do business with someone. It's actually the opposite of imposing yourself onto others. Forcing a country to do business with another would be much more concerning, and a violation of their sovereignty. Let these countries get on with themselves.

[@marshalllapenta7656]

QUESTION Which bank holds that money set aside for victims? Could it be the treasury? There has to be a sense of national unity for Afghanistan.

[@BestOpinionHaver]

There cannot be a national unity or identify in Afghanistan because the people is basically a mish-mash or various tribes, ethnic groups and religious sects. Modern Afghanistan is a political creation only 130 years old called the Durand-line, made by drawing lines on a map for trade/military influence purposes between the British Empire, Russian Empire, Persia and China. The situation is similar to that of countless African nations and large parts of the middle east. Afghanistan is where Empires go to die. Alexander the great, USSR, British Empire and most recently the USA.

[@chicotheballs]

@@BestOpinionHaverModern Afghanistan was founded in 1747 Under Ahmad shah durrani who was a tribal leader. Afghanistan has had several kings and rulers since then, so there has always been an afghan nation state, the myth of Afghanistan being “mish mash” tribes is a myth because America is retarded enough to blame their failure in building a nation on Afghanistan being ungovernable.

[@arthas640]

@@BestOpinionHaver That moniker is a bit unearned. Iran had suzerainty in Afghanistan for a long time, the country was conquered by the Arabs and Mongols quiet easily, and the Arab conquest permanently changed the country, and the British Empire got what they wanted in their invasion of Afghanistan: they invaded to stop raid into British India and to make the country a neutral border state since the Russians had made moves to turn them into another central asian colony. The US withdraw from Afghanistan, unlike the Soviet's withdraw, also has virtually zero impact on the US domestically and virtually zero impact on foreign affairs with any nation except Afghanistan. It was barely even a "graveyard" for the US, only around 24k Americans died fighting in Afghanistan which was about as many Americans that died in the gang wars in St Louis across the same time period as the US presence in Afghanistan. Afghanistan borders were set by the Durand-line but it wasnt a "political creation". The Emirate of Afghanistan's borders before the 1880s were still very similar to today, their eastern border was just ill defined. Their modern borders pretty neatly align with their borders following the collapse of the Durrani empire which was when the Emirate of Afghanistan aka the Emirate of Kabul started to take shape. Afghansitan as a centralized state really started to take shape under the Soviets since previously most rulers in Kabul were highly decentralized and didnt have much impact on the tribal, rural parts of the country and mainly just ruled a few major cities and the Soviets tried to change that, something the Americans also later tried.

[@phoenixrising8640]

@arthas640 add the suicide rate of your US foreign invader terrorists onto the number who died in Afghanistan.

[@joelwieland1767]

There isn't really much to collapse. It was already undeveloped, government services basically non existent and people are split up into different tribes that keep to themselves and their region

[@cyberverse9141]

Source: trust me bro 🤓 Taliban have a well established stable government with complete authority in all regions. Do better research kid.

[@thesalandarian3314]

@@cyberverse9141that’s a crap source lol

[@phoenixrising8640]

But, but, but Afghanistan was heaven under your US and NATO foreign invader terrorists and their Afghan puppets watch, yet here u are admitting that all sectors were a mess amd barely any development was done during the foreign occupation, when the US and NATO foreign invader terrorists and their Afghan puppets say it was heaven! They made it sound Afghanistan was like Dubai Central Asia and we were living in luxury in heaven 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣

[@deidresable]

​@@cyberverse9141 Even in under US occupation nothing much change even backward because all the development are in the large city like kabul/ kandhar,

[@shahmishahrirrr]

May Afghanistan prosper in years to come!!

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

I'm surprised you didn't mention sharia law. While unpopular by current Western standards, it's pretty damn effective in economies such as Afghanistan's. Not to mention how I'm sure the Taliban are considered the liberators over there, so there's a lot of support. They have a good reason to hate the West. Was not mentioning these two things an oversight or just a blind spot of the channel?

[@Inkan1969]

No way do the people consider these fanatics as "liberators".

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

@@Inkan1969 This might come as a surprise to some people. However, the American government is the neo-imperialist bad guy in a lot of countries' relatively recent histories. (especially Middle Eastern and South American ones) In short? There are two sides to every coin.

[@Inkan1969]

@@NY_Mountain_Man There's nothing worse than the Taliban. Heck, the Taliban would execute you for being a gay mountain man.

[@mrslinkydragon9910]

​@Gay_Mountain_Man but the day to day live of the average citizen was better. Women could get an education, hold jobs and wear what they wanted. there was more freedom of expression and health care was better. Now they've literally deleted 20 years of social progress. That's why people are annoyed

[@NY_Mountain_Man]

@@mrslinkydragon9910Hey. While I agree completely that in our world, those things are good and true. It doesn't change the fact that the majority of people in different parts of the world have different perspectives. They also marginalize different types of people. (including me and you) -- Also if you think about it, we unfairly marginalize people too. (and they call us hypocritical for calling on them to change but we don't want to change ourselves) Moreover, focusing on that one part kinda blinds you to the other realization that lots of Middle Eastern Muslims felt out right religiously persecuted by the USA's rampant wars. To say nothing of how if the tables we turned, they invaded us, enforced their ideals onto us, then called us backwards bigots for not accepting them, you'd be speaking a different story. That's literally what the USA did. Both these things have pushed Afghans further and further into an insistence that they're the "correct ones" causing them to double-down. The world is complicated. So if you only want to hear things that make immediate sense to you, then your understanding will always cause misunderstandings and potential conflict. But as you can see, even our simple understanding of economic well-being as the only determining factor to a country and their citizens' well being is itself a rather one-sided and flawed. There's pride, religion, and liberating their own individual culture as well. They're all extremely powerful ways to embolden the health of a country. In short, change has to come from within. Not from comparatively pampered people who benefit from an empire and who think like Neo-imperialists aboard without realizing it.

[@news26boom]

To those Afghans who refused to fight back in 2021, this was your choice. All I can say is - no refunds.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

The ones who opposed the Taliban are living over here now, courtesy of our government. The ones still in Afghanistan at worst just tolerate them

[@aze94]

I imagine that the contractors that price gouged the US for their ludicrously profitable contracts are not going to let the US have any refunds either...

[@elgranioltizo7788]

The afghan people need and want taliban, to bring them justice and good governance. The oppressive regime is the American backed regime not taliban

[@iplaygames896]

To the americans that ran away from Afghanistan stop starving the men , woman and children of Afghanistan to impose your views of the world on them.

[@crash.override]

​@@iplaygames896Afghanistan has its own agricultural sector. It's now the Taliban's obligation to make it successful.

[@Me--SaifAli]

Why did you forget the artificial cannal that they are making for farming without any help from (so called super-power countrys😂) i think you should do a deep analysis at ground level so that you will get to know that they wont collapes and one day they are going to be a stone in the neck of so called super powers😂

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

infact if you know too much youll understand they are still getting aid in helping to build the canal there is a geoplitical intrest involved

[@kodvavi150]

​@@HouthiandtheblowfishNo, the aid only goes to the UN-led corrupt western NGOs. Stop lying or believing in western propaganda.

[@phoenixrising8640]

​@@Houthiandtheblowfishno aid for the canal. Which so-called superpower is giving us aid for the canal? None.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

@@phoenixrising8640 it is a private group militia called blackwater

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

what their aim is basically to ethincally change a locations composition a move a population and remove a population by creating so called farms but they are drugs so they form a psuedo faction within the gov

[@pjbrown4736]

I suspect Trump surrendered, but asked them to keep it off the books.

[@dieterhofner7043]

This has never been an why. The taliban enjoys massive support among afghans. Just look at how quick the US backed state collapsed. There is nothing to do except just accept the fact that everybody in that country wants the taliban gov.

[@CIutchX]

Yeah right. An the people that run after the departing US Soldiers, begging them to take them with them or throwing their infants over the fences for the soldiers to take them to the US to live a save life did so out of spite? Next thing you're telling me these babies were bombs....

[@MrBelguin]

Not everybody... only half.

[@ziqi92]

The US army wasn’t exactly on best terms with the locals. Despite most of the soldiers best efforts, the orders from DC, the drone strikes, and the land ruining tech used to clear paths caused many locals to sour against the US.

[@freeman10000]

Sad to say but true. The majority (but definitly not all) of Afghans are tolerant of the Taliban despite how awful they are. The majority of Afghans are dirt poor, poorly educated, ultra-conservative and non-cosmopolitan and through their eyes the Taliban represents a sort of stability, a basic survival which is all they aspire too. Saying that, I hope all educated Afghans have a chance to resettle in other nations and contribute to their adopted countries. I know several Afghans that have settled in Australia and they are awesome people and a positive addition to our country.

[@alexpotts6520]

The western-supported government collapsed because of the Taliban's military power, not because of its popularity.

[@moyo2850]

I'm an American and i dont want 1penny of aid, to go to Afghanistan. If that causes problems for the civilian population, that's their problem for their choice in government.

[@Okayge2309]

You think the Taliban gave them a choice? Hahaha. Stupid Americunt.

[@cyberverse9141]

Typical arrogant muricans saying this after attacking, stealing and destroying wealth of an entire country

[@baha3alshamari152]

Afghanistan had 11 billions frozen money so US is not sending aid they are sending Afghan government money to Taliban They agreed with Taliban to send 40 millions per week if they guarantee that it will reach civilians There's enough of it till February 2027 and then US government will finally start to give money from its budget

[@KarlMarkyMarxx]

Afghanistan is just a place on the map that every other country agrees they don't want to govern.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Except India 🪷, who would totally add changing its constitution to allow non-democratic states and offer Afghanistan admission as a state as a national focus if it was easily within reach. Like, it would only take a few decades into a major global crisis for India 🪷 to get the crisis shock ⚡ and the distraction of enemies for it to start trying to charm Afghanistan into joining.

[@SamPashmi]

It must be so humiliating to have to tell people that your from Afghanistan 😢

[@astamano1274]

@@toromontana8290 there’s nothing embarrassing about being born in the west, Abdul 😂😂

[@blueskull1119]

Why they kicked your a** Spend 2 trillion and get nothing

[@astamano1274]

@@blueskull1119 kicked who’s a**? We occupied them for 20 years then left when we realised they were a lost cause 😂😂

[@osheridan]

​@@astamano1274 There's nothing wrong about being born anywhere or of any ethnicity, we settled this in 1945.

[@SamPashmi]

@@osheridan there’s nothing wrong with it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not embarrassing 🤣

[@rikuvakevainen6157]

6:30 rules for rulers is still in function.

[@jaredvaughan1665]

I think people there are desperate for long lasting peace most of all.

[@Blackdragon1331]

One small correction, at 6:05. It's nog "Afganistanis", it's "Afghans".

[@user-iz3gv5vo6b]

nog?

[@Blackdragon1331]

What?@@user-iz3gv5vo6b

[@90skidcultist]

@@user-iz3gv5vo6b Yes, *”nog”.*

[@SpartanChief2277]

Afghanis

[@ChinnuWoW]

@@user-iz3gv5vo6b eggnog

[@anaz7603]

When you know better; you do better, so, just wanted to let you know, as a Pashtun (whose from that part of the world) if youre going to report on Afghanistan news, then its only right to get the terminology right: Afghanistan = country, Afghan = citizen of said country and Afghanis = currency of said country, however, I dont know what "Afghanistanian" is, even spell check has hi lighted this as incorrect.

[@basitrashidi7407]

He pronounced it actually right and we should stop bragging about ethnicity everywhere as it did not get us far.

[@anaz7603]

@@basitrashidi7407 No, he did not pronounce it right.Are you a Tajik Afghan, who associates 'Afghan/Afghanistan' with Pashtuns?

[@basitrashidi7407]

@@anaz7603 yeah I am Tajik from Afghanistan. The word Afghan means Pashtun that’s right.

[@zarakdurrani7584]

​@@basitrashidi7407I'll help you with that, I'll call you "afjik" From now. Or how about "tajikistani". Take your pick.

[@christopherwalls2763]

Great job

[@dadafgf9360]

😳😳😳😳 WTF you keep another countries reserve fund for your own people?? While ppl in the said country are dying of hunger and starvation ?? This is just pure abuse of power by the US n this is soon going to change no matter how long it takes. It brings tears to my eyes just hearing that , this is pure wickedness 😩

[@zarakzia]

Why should Afghanistan collapse when the Taliban are far more competent than the previous US-backed regime? Taliban for all its faults actually does have administrative capability. Violence has been reduced by almost 90%. That gave the economy much-needed breathing room, especially for Afghan exports to its neighbours. Bribery and corruption have been almost eradicated allowing businesses to save money. The state competently and diligently collect taxes. The formerly informal banking sector has been brought under documentation unlocking more tax revenue. Money at least for now isn't a big issue for the Taliban. The previous regime's budget would be entirely financed by foreign donors. The current Afghan economy is far more sustainable than the previous regime was. That doesn't mean Afghanistan is out of the blue. It's still a pariah state and their ban on women's education and employment isn't helping them. This is causing problems for Afghan businesses to access international markets and financial institutions.

[@timothytumusiime2903]

As can be said by CGP Grey, they know to hold the Keys to Power.

[@xeanderman6688]

Not just that The area of Afghanistan has been divided into family clans for centuries. The people there won't magically support the idea of 19th, 20th and 21st century concept of a state. They are not used to it, their culture is not used to it and we can't just force it on them since it will not work, unless THEY want it to work

[@kurtonela]

You sir, get my upvote.

[@infidelheretic923]

No one around with weapons left to oppose them apart from ISIS.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

@@infidelheretic923 don't give the government any more ideas

[@panzerschliffehohenzollern4863]

​@@user-op8fg3ny3jCIA backed "freedom fighter" 2.0? Second time the charm?

[@dotsdot5608]

My bet is that it wont

[@jacobwhite1360]

I’ve literally booked in the Afghan Embassy at work for servicing on their car. I work for Sytner-Mercedes in the UK.. I don’t get how they can still do this

[@cyberverse9141]

Maybe don't watch too much western propaganda.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

there is so much internal thongs going on that only people in the know understand and the powers that be remember they didnt destroy talliban they left it to taliban so thats a clue and pakistan is being paid by powers that be who have intrest in afghanistan but dont want be physically their with their own armies instead local proxies and private mercanary groups like blackwater so what you see is surface level thats why few weeks before you were hearing brits wanting to recognise them for other reasons which would long time to explain

[@jacobwhite1360]

@@cyberverse9141 I don’t bud. Just asking how they’re able to operate an embassy that clearly has funds when they’re currently occupied by the Taliban

[@MsJubjubbird]

they work under a 5 for me, 1 for you system of distribution.

[@cyberverse9141]

@@jacobwhite1360 They have a fully functioning country

[@youisstupid2586]

Something you didn't mention is taxes. Taliban Tax people now heavily. Anyone with a business has to pay taxes now. From street vendors to big companies, all pay taxes now. They have gathered so much money now that they are starting mega projects like big channels, dams, highways and even mega cities. With safety people now have started their own businesses which means more taxes. They also are utilizing mines heavily. Every other day they auction mines to companies.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Isn't that nice.

[@komododragon410]

​@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_CyavanaNo, since West isn't satisfied

[@moharshad6882]

Ya and this is all with the sanctions of the west, imagine when the UN finally recognizes them, they’ll start trading with countries like china and Russia cuz of their hate for America

[@deaththekid3998]

Wow, I’ll take whatever drug you’re taking, must be strong stuff 😂

[@moharshad6882]

@@deaththekid3998 I’m not saying the taliban are doing amazingly well but with the tools and money they have they are doing pretty well, a mega project which they started two years ago is halfway down, it was focused on making a artificial water canal and if you see some videos on it, it is promising, and also this is supposedly the biggest man made canal in Asia

[@mercytomankind9803]

So let me get this straight.. The Afghani (local currency) lost only 6% of its value over the last two years, while it's reported that the Japanese yen had lost 35% of its value over the same period?! Could you please explain.

[@MsJubjubbird]

One has more to lose, if that makes sense. So if your currency is work a hundred US dollars and it loses 35% in value it's still worth $65.00. If your currency is worth $10 US dollars and it loses 6%, it's only worth $9.40 and there is not much further to fall. The Japanese economy is a lot more sophisticated and it's issues are more an aging population and covid restrictions (causing recession) and trade rules and such.

[@yasminea7149]

Actually, the Afghani has appreciated since August 2021, the fall of previous govt. At that time, 1US dollar was around 95 AF. Now 1US is about 78 AF. Some of the reasons could be: 1. Pre-Taliban govt, Afghans used a lot of Irani and Pakistani currencies instead of only Afghanis. Taliban has made it illegal (it was illegal before too) but they seem to do a better job enforcing it. 2. Corruption decreased significantly under Taliban, which also increased govt revenue. 3. US Dollar decreased. 4. Inflation decreased a bit. I'm sure there are also other reasons.

[@Thejericko17]

Honestly you all are amazing. Please keep doing what youre doing👍🏾

[@ellenmendoza7246]

I really like your work ..very nicely done

[@abuashraf-aadil5227]

Whatever, we don't see the chaos that we saw during American occupation of 20 years long in Afghanistan with all kinds of brutality and evil in their minds.

[@ChefbyMistake]

Because there is no Afghan State. Tabs only govern Kabul and there is no system since there was no system. The Persians or Farsiwans are only concerned with Iran and Tajikistan. Pashtuns always look towards their brothers in Pakistan. Pamiris follow their spiritual leader Agha Khan Hazaras want to flee and settle in Quetta.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

ethnic clensing and turn into a pashtunistan confedral is the pakistani dream

[@ChefbyMistake]

@@Houthiandtheblowfish No it’s not it’s a tactic of ISI common Pakistanis including Pashtuns don’t want that we have Internal problems including Shia Pashtuns vs Sunni Pashtuns, Tribal Pashtuns vs Yusufzai Liberal Pashtuns so why we will think like that ?

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

@@ChefbyMistake the madrasas that they teach from pakistan pashtuns inside pakistan and now inside afghanstan obvously paid by saudis

[@gideonhorwitz9434]

Even at the height of the occupation the views of majority of afghans regarding liberal values didn’t chance the most recent poll found majority were in favor of sharia law

[@wow664112]

Guys remember those china is collapsing in 24-30 days video? now change china into afghanistan

[@User-059-42]

Every country can be self sufficient and survive any outside pressure if there is good governance.

[@toufikmirnes562]

May Allah guide and protect our brothers of the Afghan Islamic emirate. Glory to them, truely.

[@food4you830]

Afghanistan Zindabad🇦🇫

[@albertmisic3876]

Because they have ideology which keep them strong and together. Talibans are backwards but common interest is above personal.

[@conductingintomfoolery9163]

The backwards group manage to repeal two super power and manage a multi ethnic mountainous state armed to the teeth with insane people every corner and crack heads

[@skywalker7778]

How come Lebanon hasn't collapsed? How come Venezuela hasn't collapsed? How come Zimbabwe hasn't collapsed? MONEY....

[@Beyonder1987]

For a democracy to exist, there has to be willingness for its citizens. In Afghanistan there isnt. Afghanistan is a mostly tribal nation. Very few cities exist and its mostly rural. They will never submit to US or any foreign way of life. This is why the Taliban are tolerated in many part of the country outside Kabul and Khandahar rct