The Taliban a Year Later: How is Afghanistan Doing?

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It's almost been a year since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, and despite vowing to be more moderate, they've made little progress so far. So today, we break down their key policy promises, and why breaking them has exacerbated their failing economy.
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[@ChandranPrema123]

Well India was providing wheat for Afghanistan but Pakistan started stealing them because well Pakistan is Ukraine of Indian Subcontinent. And That's it I have to say being an Indian

[@PrivateSi]

The West is run by Liars and their Lawyers, The Rest by Liars who are above the law in the main, being governmental authoritarian extremists.. The problem is, the majority of Muslims support all sorts of highly illiberal practices between them and The NWO obviously wants Muslims and (ex....) Socialists to Greatly Replace all Liberty-loving Westerners to the extent they've brainwashed Conservatives to love Authority, Lefty Socialists to love it even more, and Liberals to love the mass importation of highly illiberal cultures and hate themselves and the protection of Liberty in The West.. Being mass-invaded greatly reduces the individual liberty of Nationals as we're turned into a second world state with a 1st world elite.

[@jewiesnew3786]

@@ChandranPrema123 r u saying ukraine is stealing?

[@zeno9439]

@@jewiesnew3786 im guessing he meant the conflicts between india and pakistan like russia and ukraine

[@Zhicano]

No mention of the seizure of assets and Western economic sanctions continue to cripple the Afghani people dooming them to a suffer severe famine. If the problem was the governments fundamentalism than Israel and Saudi Arabia economy should be in the toilet.

[@unc54]

I'm surprised there are people actually shocked the Taliban did Taliban things.

[@friendlyatheist9589]

don't forget that majority indian muslim on social media supported taliban

[@dadikkedude]

Nobody is surprised

[@johnnysilverhand3466]

@@friendlyatheist9589 muslims of India supported the Taliban

[@Rouge55]

Yeah American military occupation is so great that they burn little girls with white phosphorus. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpPOeGN8i76ZgJY

[@anustubhmishra]

@@friendlyatheist9589 no bro nobody was supporting the Taliban expect the most extreme Muslim which is less than 0.1 % of population

[@demeterruinedmylife3199]

I remember someone saying "they fought for years to implement their ideology, why would they change after taking over?" I can’t remember who said that last year, but that’s a good point.

[@cageybee7221]

well the idea that they had changed was that they had changed before they came into power, which is partially true. some of the higer ups and mid ranks have, but the conservative elites are the same, and many of the footsoldiers aswell, and that's enough in a group like this.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

They should not change (minus minor good will acts like no torture). They should only change ideology when they want to themselves. Otherwise there will always be tension.

[@Pengooine]

AbdulQahar said, “we fought for 43 years to implement Islamic law”.

[@alexisvladimir8148]

@@Pengooine 43 years? They did not even fight the soviets, dafuq they are claiming

[@Pengooine]

@@alexisvladimir8148 I was quoting the person

[@paulheydarian1281]

This may come as a shock, but the Taliban don't really care what happens to most Afghan families.

[@fredjansen2770]

allahs will..

[@777arksMa77_RGM]

bot

[@theemeraldomed6856]

🤓

[@rickyyacine4818]

@@fredjansen2770 allah give u food wait wait no he doesn't haha 😂😂

[@reddawn1873]

just like the presidents of the US cared for the afghan families 💀💀💀

[@danielho5635]

Taliban: "We vow to govern the country like it was 2022 .. B.C."

[@umidazimi3706]

Democracy is an older system of government than Shariah. Lol

[@MrCharvik]

They chose the wrong kind of Islam lol. In the 8th - 13th century islamic countries had best scientists and culture in the world but now they promote this lol. They go before the ancient egypt lol

[@Ivanfpcs]

People where incredibly naive thinking the Taliban wouldn't do what they have always done...

[@shouryasanjeev9284]

The only people who believed them were jihadist sympathisers and psuedo intellectuals with "humanites" degrees that can't live 24 hours without a cup of starbucks and air conditioning but think they know everything.

[@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz]

Nobody really Did. Look at the List of these "Allies" they are all Dictatorships with Imperialist Ambitions. They only looked for an Opportunity to abuse the weakness of Afgahnistan. And that they did. Pakistan especially wants Afgahnistan to be Weak so they can make it a Puppet. So what happened was effectively exactly what most People expected. Nobody was really Trusting them or thinking they would be good now.

[@Camelotsmoon]

Ya I don't get it, I don't see how people would think a terrorist militia group would turn into an amazing governing body. Civilians run a government, and have a close council of military for a reason.. it just works better that way.

[@owenb8636]

They just said the words we wanted to hear to get us to leave faster

[@hanzalaomar9915]

People weren't naive. They knew Taliban are far superior both in terms of ideology and being merciful than the western mass murderous occupiers

[@muppet50yago36]

Promises are cheap, actions are definitive. This applies quite well to the Taliban.

[@stefanstruger9949]

at least afghanistan is finally free

[@muppet50yago36]

@@stefanstruger9949 If you are a male, Islamic militant who supports the Taliban religiously, yes you are free. If you are not you are free to starve.

[@stefanstruger9949]

@@muppet50yago36 oh please, do u seriously buy into the whole 'leader of the free world', 'war to spread democracy' crap

[@cuculan1978]

@@stefanstruger9949 What are you talking about they are free ? Taliban are all from Pakistan ?

[@youtubeboy5700]

western sanctions didnt kill taliban economy, directly taliban did. what a childish mentality.

[@dasrubberduck7331]

“A more moderate taliban with more socially liberal policies” I don’t know what mouth breather would have those expectations.

[@MrCharvik]

when I think of taliban i can associate it with many words but not social, liberal or even a policy. They have barely basic education

[@adrees]

Thank you for covering this.

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

Pakistan : Supports violent and dangerous extremist group to fight the US. US leaves. Violent and extremist group stays violent and extremist. Pakistan : How could I have seen this one coming! It was supposed to annoy America, the Taliban weren't supposed to actually win!

[@krimlin9625]

Bro usa literally funded and propped up Taliban before they turned against usa. Tf you talking about. Pakistan's foreign policy has always been dumb, they were a usa puppet after all. But this is America's doing.

[@qtt8122]

But remember that the US funded the forefathers of the Taliban movement aka Mujhahedeens.

[@hanzalaomar9915]

Dude are you separating US from "violent and extremist groups"? Tell me again who is more violent and extreme than the mass murderous US that seek global-transnational dominance even if it requires them to drop nukes on people? Tell me again what's more extreme than Bush's description of "you're either with us or against us" US foreign policy ?? US makes Isis look heros. Lol

[@ReySchultz121]

4 replies & i can't see it. Wtf.

[@abdiabdi3225]

@@ReySchultz121 exactly this shit happens so many times

[@lolmenx4]

"Pakistan played stupid games, and has won stupid prices" Such a perfect way to describe it.

[@irenakaleva1171]

Yeah

[@myg1488]

Kraut for the win

[@emile6351]

Good reference hahahaha

[@laurencesmith2199]

Like cricket ?

[@irenakaleva1171]

@@laurencesmith2199 hired terrorists and as always in history it backrifired

[@TitusRex]

Love these videos, it's the kind of news that I wouldn't find easily.

[@Robert_H.]

You have to remember that the Afghan people wanted this. They had a chance to fight the Taliban, but they just gave up. The conquest was so quick that U.S. soldiers were still being flown out when they were already giving out ministerial positions. Simple comparison: Ukraine has been fighting Russia for over 4 months and is doing well.

[@mikoto7693]

Exactly. I have no sympathy for them.

[@MrHooligans]

4 months.

[@rear9259]

They had 20 years to leave.

[@whannabi]

@@rear9259 In order to leave, you have to stop fighting right? It's the same situation as what happened recently, no matter how long they take to leave.

[@le_draffar5370]

Is doing well, it is as if Ukraine has no financial support from the United States. Another beta who doesn't know what is he talking about.🤣

[@ryanmalady376]

'we promise to respect womens rights within the limits of sharia law" if anyone didnt spot red flag they were naive

[@sgtmarcusharris4260]

Yeah Women's rights and sharia law are an oxymoron

[@makaramuss]

me: was a muslim: "Thats not woman's right " XD its like saying "we will mix water with someting" and spilling oil in it... makes nothing

[@LordInquisitor701]

Hey At lease the Taliban had a sense of humor That’s something Democrats and most liberals are lacking

[@trillionbones89]

what they said: "women's rights within the limits of Scharia" whtat they meant: "you are allowed to plant your seeds... in the desert"

[@jefflarin3774]

Exactly 💯

[@Simsimmer2000]

If I took on a management role and millions tried to flee my management I would consider whether the job is for me or not

[@jont2576]

Do u want to know what western countries in particular superpowers do when they failed to inplement any meaningful or significant changes and develop the country they occupied and supposedly liberated and placed in stewardship of?with all the money and resources and equipment they have at their disposal to give a brighter future?instead of building hundreds of schools to educate the population, growing and developing suitable industries and creating millions of jobs.....building a prosperous afgan that could withstand They blame the incoming administration,for all sorts of inane and irrelevant nonsense that could be solved later once u figured out at least the fundamental basics of survival.....after all didnt america take over a hundred years to figure out her human rights issues.... And this government proceeds to sanction the country like they always did when they dislike a country..... Sometimes i feel like a certain country should be nuked to rid the world of much stupidity and

[@Andre-by4su]

I would certainly consider using Brilliant in that case

[@lorenzo6868]

@@jont2576 Only a dumbass suggests nuking countries, try to avoid stupid statements if you want to be taken seriously. Or don't.

[@toromontana8290]

@@jont2576 You can't fix Afghanistan, it's the textbook example of a shithole country. The only thing you can do is build 10 walls around it.

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

Afghanistan simply has no economic future.In the past afghans become rich by either taxing the continental silk route trading (doesn't exist anymore today) or by raiding kingdoms in India and Iran,something that is impossible to do with modern nation states. This is why during the US occupation Afghan economy rely largely on foreign aid money and opium growing;there are simply no other way of revenue extraction With US departing the former method is gone and now with Taliban cracking down on the latter method afghans simply have no job waiting for them.Its less mismanagement and more bad luck

[@u.s.navy_pete4111]

"The Taliban promised to respect women's rights, albeit within the limits of sharia law." Lol. So they don't respect women's rights.

[@jenningscunningham642]

I respect their values. Afghanistan has the government they deserve. The people want it.

[@iamverylucky]

@@jenningscunningham642 yes the people want it 🤡

[@SarahtheSoldier]

@@jenningscunningham642 I agree- the Afghans brought this misogynistic dictatorship upon themselves. Let them live with it.

[@zeddoes]

We , Uzbekistan , sent friendly aid to Afghanistan, such as food and medicine. Then after a week we got four Missiles from Afghanistan to our bordering city. Wt actual f

[@DudeWatIsThis]

Wow! I would have never guessed this was going to happen.

[@phonyzebra3848]

Same! I thought they were going to become prosperous, western-aligned, liberal democracy! Boy, was I wrong!

[@DJ-xs7ln]

Western Liberal Democracy is not in their plans. Medieval Repressive Theocracy is more to their liking.

[@kimkim-mh7bv]

No problem they can eat each other. Taliban use to eat human so it is nothing to be special.

[@whitezombie10]

This comment is true for many...

[@napoleonrabbit]

@@phonyzebra3848 Ahh 2002 I wish I was back...

[@CrazyYurie]

People actually believed the Taliban would keep those promises? That's hilarious. A tragedy for the Afghan people, but... I think it is quite clear by now that foreign intervention isn't going to fix their country. All those soldiers who deserted rather than fight off the Taliban's takeover I hope are regretting it now.

[@stefanstruger9949]

at least afghanistan is finally free from foreign rule

[@badluck5647]

Biden promised over and over that this was for the best.

[@maddogbasil]

Don't know why the moderate myth was so prevalent They fought a double decade war for their own form of governance Why would they suddenly decide change it now especially after they technically won Also whose gonna help them fix their economy since most of their neighbours either hate them or don't trust them

[@badluck5647]

@@maddogbasil The "moderate" Taliban myth was spread by the Trump and then Biden administration to justify negotiating with a terrorist organization. Both administrations knew this would be the result, but if they told the truth, then Americans would object to their heartless policies.

[@LordInquisitor701]

Versus the federal government not keeping his promise and pulling out of Afghanistan let’s see the Taliban or your family being drone to death such tough Choice

[@SolracNexus]

"terrorists have the ability to change a government, not run it" - a friend

[@Hasnain1F]

I love when people throw random facts about America. Tell your friend I said, "Hi."

[@SolracNexus]

@@Hasnain1F he replied. He said he's talking about your mom

[@Patrick462]

0:00 I actually gasped at "there was a faint hope that this would be a more moderate taliban".

[@tabryis]

Yeah they """"vowed"""" to """"respect"""" women's rights. They literally laughed at reporters asking them to support said party line

[@hanzalaomar9915]

They're correct though. There's no "rights" except Shar'ia. Rest are wrongs

[@Havokx666]

@@hanzalaomar9915 Sharia law is wrong. It should not be respected.

[@hanzalaomar9915]

@@Havokx666 Shar'ia is the only right. Rest are to be in the bin.

[@winged9247]

@@hanzalaomar9915 Then they shouldn't expect aid until these beliefs are dropped

[@hanzalaomar9915]

@@winged9247 They aren't actually. And those aren't aid but bribes under the banner of International community of which 58 Muslims countries are part of. Plus, it comes in the form of dollar notes which is literally backed against Muslim wealth (petro-dollar). Your economy depends on us and not the other way around.

[@benjaminmatheny6683]

Sad as their situation is, I don't think the IMF should be getting them a bailout. All they are doing at that point is rewarding bad behavior. plenty of other countries that actually care about improving the lives of their citizens will probably need the money, given the coming recession.

[@Thermonnuclear]

Hey, I’m only 16 and I’m heading to uni in 2 years, how would I survive a rescission, I’m am super worried. (Im Australian btw)

[@culturecanvas777]

No bailout for a rogue state.

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

It's hard to make a call on things like this. On a humanitarian level, you can't simply sit and watch millions of people starve to death. At the same time, you don't want to pump money into an extremist, militant, government. There are no easy answers.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@@Thermonnuclear you'll be fine. Learn a trade.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@@REDnBLACKnRED exactly.

[@idraote]

"There was a faint hope" Seriously? I didn't hope for a second.

[@BlackEpyon]

Yep. Any time religion rules government, things go downhill.

[@goingmonotheist783]

I love how countries literally decide to boycott some country, and not let it do business with anyone.. Then say " oh look their economy is messed up " 🙄🙄🙄

[@Tespri]

Doesn't work like that. If your country is not self-reliant then it's bound to be shitty economy. Also You're delusional if you think that heavily authoritarian country with government that represses it's people would have flourishing economy even if trading was allowed.

[@Sami-gi1ld]

Ya its so weird people accept this BS

[@goingmonotheist783]

@@Sami-gi1ld 🤷‍♂️ Btw.. I'm not even against boycotts.. But I just really really think it's crazy that we gotta be all playing stupid about it, instead of owning it~ It's better to be feared anyway! But I guess the point is, that gov likes to have it's cake and eat it too.. Wanna make people poor, and shift blame at the same time, just to give the illusion of being all loving, and benevolent.

[@robertmartin6800]

If your country can't sustain itself without foreign aid then your economy is really messed up.

[@si3mata2]

Up up

[@jarnMod]

"Raise money from cross border transit and agricultural taxation" sounds like a highwayman and rob the farmer to me. It's not surprising. Feudal society did the same thing to the T, and Taliban is certainly feudal in their way. I don't think that's hope that people think the new Taliban would be better. It's denial. I used to donate quite a bit monthly to Afghanistan, but after they handed over our afford literally in a week, I see no point. Yes, poor people will join militant, but we have a choice between rich militant and poor militant and I made my choice on that. They had their chance.

[@tourmelion9221]

Yeah, and there are much better causes to put money towards, or just savings, the worlds really shakey rn

[@Chicago48]

The taliban: This is screwed up.

[@remipoujoulat7759]

Do you feel robed now? I mean, I've been telling everyone not to send money to causes, charities and "countries at war" because most of them are scams and this won't solve anything...🤷🏻‍♂️ Now here you go, reality snaps back...

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

Unfortunately,in industrially underdeveloped countries like Afghanistan their governments have no choice but to return to medieval sharia agricultural policy where farmers are taxed between a third to one and a half of their produces;which is good in a medieval setting,but incompatible with the modern world where the farmers already spend a lot of money to buy fertilizers

[@jont2576]

U used to donate money to afganistan......can we cut the crap lmao.i highly doubt u donate tobthe crackhead on the street let alone U know why feudal societies did that in the past?Because 90 percent of the economy was agricultural pre industrialisation. What do u suppose the afgans raise taxes from?the bombs dropped on them by usa?get a dollar everytime someone say democracy or bomb iraq over the last twenty years?

[@TheMasterTeddy]

There are no moderate Terrorists. The people of Afgahnistan believed in the Taliban-group und wished there comeback for peace and prosperity. But now they reached the opposite. A brutal dictatorship and the downfall of their economy.

[@peterpanini96]

You collect what you plant talibans planted only opium so yeah... The civillians are fukt...

[@spartanx9293]

Believe It or Not terrorists who have never administrated a civilian government don't know how to run a country

[@ailediablo79]

Bru don't we need not to forget the actions of USA against Afghanistan after they got out. They f stopped aid. It is not like USA done anything meaningful to Afghanistan economy. Also it is not like Taliban where given a healthy economy or a country. This crap needs at least 10 years to start fixing. It would not heal until at least 10 years if not 40 years to offset the 43 years of warfare from Sovit-Afgan war to until 2021. It is the hardest job to lead Afghanistan. What happened so far is obviously obvious. Wait 10 years then make a video.

[@abu-omaral-bakr392]

The Taliban will bring Afghanistan what it was waiting for decades 🧕🏾☝🏾👳🏾‍♂️🏴🕌ن شاء الله‎ in schā Allāh

[@jont2576]

Do u want to know what western countries in particular superpowers do when they failed to inplement any meaningful or significant changes and develop the country they occupied and supposedly liberated and placed in stewardship of?with all the money and resources and equipment they have at their disposal to give a brighter future?instead of building hundreds of schools to educate the population, growing and developing suitable industries and creating millions of jobs.....building a prosperous afgan that could withstand They blame the incoming administration,for all sorts of inane and irrelevant nonsense that could be solved later once u figured out at least the fundamental basics of survival.....after all didnt america take over a hundred years to figure out her human rights issues.... And this government proceeds to sanction the country like they always did when they dislike a country..... Sometimes i feel like a certain country should be nuked to rid the world of much stupidity and

[@gideonmele1556]

Wooooow who would have thought? How could anyone have foreseen such an unexpected turn of events?

[@gunnerjensen5998]

I think more time needed to be spent referencing the chart where much of the money being raised seemed to be coming from various drug operations.

[@StevieFQ]

The concept of providing economic aid to Afghanistan seems so idiotic. You don't get to accept economic aid from the west while also rejecting everything that made said countries capable of offering that aid to begin with. Let them collapse and begin anew. Think of how much damage foreign aid did to Africa in the long run. Allowing non functioning governments to rely on aid in order to survive is akin to endorsing everything they do and stand for.

[@exmachina3685]

Considering that the west devastated the country with 20 years of war I think your point is void

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

I think they were asking for their country's assets to be unfrozen first and foremost?

[@TelManothHexperax]

Its not the West job to help them like you say, but the arab country . With the raise of pétrol price... à lot of arab country have the money no ?

[@spartanx9293]

Send them food and water and medical supplies nothing more

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@user-op8fg3ny3j that money was given to a government that no longer exists.

[@CantE8tCheese]

If the taliban want to rule as if it’s 2000 years ago then let them deal with everything that comes with it.

[@punie6456]

And let 40 million people starve?

[@joebp91]

@@punie6456 yup. The people got exactly what they wanted.

[@jefflarin3774]

@@joebp91 exactly It is the people who wanted Taliban Just a few minority didn't want them

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@@jefflarin3774 where do you get that from? Opinion polling before they took power showed the vast majority didn't want them at all.

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@@joebp91 where did you learn that the people wanted a Taliban govt?

[@sanjayeasycutz7195]

Good Video ❤️💖

[@Redcoat11]

holy shit it's been a year?

[@morrisse0_088]

Did anybody with more than 2 and a half braincells really think this ever had a chance of actually working?

[@rohankishibe8259]

Actually yes, if they had their money back.. But noooo, US lost the war and out of spite froze the afghans whole money, causing famines and whatnot, this country been through decades of wars and got their only cash stolen from them? Do you think they have a chance to get things in shape in a year?

[@goli8699]

Just a question, how usefull would half a braincell be

[@morrisse0_088]

@@goli8699 that‘s a good question. However if you only have two that are fully operational, it doesn‘t really matter anyway I guess

[@FloofyMinari]

No. But what are gonna do? Occupy Afghanistan for another 20 years? No thanks. It's their problem, they should fix it.

[@whitezombie10]

Yeah they all believed Biden... silly fools

[@scaptal]

Jezus fuck has it really been a year already.... wow, time flies

[@kgpspyguy]

Time flies when everything sucks.

[@AG-zv9jo]

Time flies when you don’t pay attention to the moving reference point from a year ago.

[@supercellodude]

There was an article in scientific american a few years ago about the untapped mineral resources in Afghanistan. Whatever government can implement new infrastructure and avoid getting exploited by foreign companies could try to revitalize the Afghan economy. *However*, with the suffering that's occuring from the current iteration of Taliban rule, is it even desirable for them to try and implement a Botswana-style economic growth based on mining? Given that Islamic State Khorasan is trying to attack Taliban strongholds, would a potential IS takeover be even worse than the Taliban?

[@mirandapillsbury7885]

ok so why did the US not do that when it was occupying Afghanistan? The point is Afghanistan will never be able to propsper because there is too much foreign interventionism and because there is too much corruption as well

[@alvarorubenvera5915]

The Chinese are on their way to exploit their resources.

[@stefangrobbink7760]

@@mirandapillsbury7885 well, that's gone now, and suprise suprise, the whole country is in ruins. The place will remain a mess as long as they think they can do it on their own.

[@MrCharvik]

Taliban wont do anything they are incapable of even counting 1+1, they are just terrorists

[@nickhanlon9331]

TLDR: They have competent governors. Also TLDR:97% of the people are living on $1.90 a day. So which is it?

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Maybe the US should shift alliances from Pakistan to India…

[@joaquinescotoaleman4320]

As far as I know they already did! Since Obama at least! Modi seems a reasonable guy who has relative good economic policies! I hope Resident Biden don't mess up things like he did with Saudi Arabia, El Salvador or the UK.

[@fishheadbreakroom]

@@joaquinescotoaleman4320 give it time...

[@Sayitlikitiz101]

The US no longer counts Pakistan as an ally as Pakistan is firmly aligned with China. We can't have a meaningful alliance with India either because India is unreliable and its army a true "paper tiger". Also, India is becoming more and more undemocratic and the rise of Hindu extremists in the government will unavoidably bring them into conflict with their neighbors. A conflict that India's history shows they won't win.

[@tourmelion9221]

I don't think india would want a political alliance to the US, US causes too many head aches, too much trouble, and having US flip flop from a terror organisation that they set up to the country getting the worst of it, it's just not something india would really want

[@dkoda840]

The US shifted back in the late 90s early 2000s, especially after they found out the weapons and equipment we gave the Pakistani ISI they turned and armed insurgencies into Afghanistan and India.

[@houseplant1016]

By Afghan standards it is just a typical "we're becoming a failed state" scenario. Nothing to worry about!

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

As if they were ever a working country. The Afghans have more alliegence to their local tribes than to the idea of a nation state. They were only forced into becoming one to act as a buffer between the British Rajj and Imperial Russia

[@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH]

China will be digging soon

[@tomlxyz]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j To me it seems Afghanistan at least existed as a country since 1747 (Durrani Empire) and while it didn't keep the same territory or political system over the centuries that also can't be said for most countries in that time span, including western ones. Allegiance to a country is also a rather new concept in most places, as a concept of national identity didn't exist yet. Besides, many modern African countries were also superficially created and today work as identity. But yes, in the time era where a national identity was created Afghanistan for screwed by constantly being squeezed between two opponents

[@BradBrown95]

Every single country that has ever been around has risen and fallen it is like a law of nature and nothing can stop yet

[@spartanx9293]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j let's all be completely honest yes the US is occupation was a s*** show but they were probably better off with it absence makes the heart grow fonder

[@WarriorAjk]

at 0:40 youre using a picture for Imran Khan and Ashraf Ghani, that simply doesn't represent "Pakistan and the Taliban", because Ashraf Ghani wasn't part of the Taliban.

[@aritraghosh4143]

Pakistan situation is really similar to the quote if you pet a snake in your backyard expecting it to only bite your neighbors you are wrong it would bite you one day they thought they would support Taliban to create instability in India but now Taliban is supporting TTP BLA and many more organisations

[@hellothere1656]

There's no proof that Pakistan actually supported the taliban. They supported the mujahideen against the soviets before they became taliban. In the case of the Afghan taliban, Pakistan just tried to gain some financial influence over them. Some of them use the Pakistani rupee which means that the Afghan taliban are getting forced to not bother Pakistan and that's what Pakistan wanted, for these violent cavemen to leave them alone. Also I'm curious as to what makes u think the Afghan taliban support the BLA when they both have very opposing ideologies. One is far right and fundamentalist whilst the other is far left.

[@sheikhalneri9883]

@@hellothere1656 Mujahideen never became Taliban. Theyre a different group

[@hellothere1656]

@@sheikhalneri9883 Some of them did

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

👏😐 Best wishes to the people of Afghanistan Thanks for reporting on this TLDR

[@oldbordergeek]

The poeple suffer we need to bring them information and education

[@badluck5647]

The Taliban was outgunned and outmanned by government forces, but the Afghans still chose to surrender their country to the Taliban instead of fighting for it. The cowards deserve the consequences of their choices.

[@oldbordergeek]

@@badluck5647 you are a clown. What can you expect from illeterate unarmwd dirt poor farmers faced by ak47s? You are clearly very uninformed about the matters of the world. You one of those genocide guys.

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

@@badluck5647 the general public should not be punished for the crimes/mistakes of the government.

[@makaramuss]

@@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen what is a goverment in democracy if not will of people :/

[@richkeagy8907]

Great, informative video. Fantastic shirt!

[@arturasp9738]

Sending any aid to Taliban Afghanistan would only prolong the sufferings of the weak and slightly delay the collapse. International community shouldn't send a single dollar there, as long as religious fanatics rule.

[@lip124]

They was fuck the minute US left, unless they though we would keep giving them money yea right, even if UN ask US for money that is a big fat no since that is taxpayer money. Also a lot of donation from US is to Ukraine so afghan is screwed.

[@777arksMa77_RGM]

isn't USA in paragon also fanatic?

[@Mr9mann]

Damn. I would've never imagined.

[@ChadSimplicio]

Actions speak louder than words.

[@mayankbisht7691]

A radical Islamist group fighting another, more radical group. Irony at it's best

[@catmonarchist8920]

You don't hate anyone as much as the people who are slightly different to you .

[@mayankbisht7691]

@@catmonarchist8920 Who said anything hateful, I just said it is ironical.

[@cek0792]

@@mayankbisht7691 I think it's a quote :)

[@hmmer3471]

Taliban is native and others are forigen, they don't want others to do buisnnes in their land and also only 5 countries considers Taliban is not a terror org

[@madhatter2695]

you can't ignore how the lack of cash in the country and the freezing of 8 billion dollars of government money, the government and economy was using and back mostly by foreign aid (discussions of the taliban being the legitimate government or not is besides the poinT), affected their ability to run the country and stabilize and grow the economy. those are 2 things that no group could have overcome within a year

[@jackiep3604]

If the money is from the western countries it balance to them.

[@jong9379]

US had every right to freeze that 8 billion... because that's literally US money earmarked for Afghan spending. Its like me saying I am going to spend 5 bucks for you buying a coffee... that doesn't mean you OWN that five bucks from me. I can spend that 5 bucks or say no too.. my choice.

[@madhatter2695]

@@jong9379 moot point, I'm not arguing about if it was right or not, and I'd say there's a good case for someone to argue that it may have not been right in the long run, but I'm not gonna be that person. My point was that, taking 8 billion dollars out of an economy of 19 billion is a major barrier to the success of any government to rebuild a war torn country.

[@angrydragonslayer]

@@madhatter2695 then it was a 11 bil economy all along, no?

[@madhatter2695]

@RED-HONOR not like abandoning countries we've meddled in and then dropped like a hot potato, yeah that's usually worked for us before especially in Afghanistan. I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but there's gonna be a generation of people who are gonna hear and see loads of propaganda about how we took our tails and ran, stole the nation's money, and then when a natural disaster killed a 1000 people and made life even more unbearably difficult than before, we were nowhere to be found. Bet that shit will look great for recruitment propaganda. I'm not saying you're right or wrong though. But something to ponder.

[@briandbeaudin9166]

You should have said "the Taliban are great at raising money at gunpoint!" I suspect anybody who doesn't pay the so-called "taxes" winds up without a head! Or at least missing a hand or foot or something....

[@nickhanlon9331]

Every government does that. Pay your taxes or got to jail. You'll be surrounded by people with guns.

[@Hasnain1F]

There is no concept of taxes in Islam. Although, there is Jizya which is far far less than the back breaking taxes you pay that are funding different types of degeneracies. Ooh, tell me again, what would kill you? Cancer of hospital bills?

[@nickhanlon9331]

@@Hasnain1F Zakat?

[@Hasnain1F]

​@@nickhanlon9331 Zakat is entirely different. It is given once a year and is not like tax IE, you don't pay zakat for what you buy or sell, just the surplus amount of wealth that you happen to posses for a whole year. You just pay 1/40 of your surplus wealth. So, suppose you have 100k of net worth for a year, just have to pay 2.5%. Ooh, and you don't have to pay it to the government. Give it directly to poor people, the closer they are in relation to you, the better. Modern capitalist societies thrive of debt. Rich people like Elon Musk, take loans from bank on lowest of interest rates and gives their stocks to the bank, this way, they're not charged income tax, hence, effectively evading tax. Suppose, if Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Zucc, Warren Buffet paid zakat, it would end poverty for the upcoming generations. Modern capitalists societies thrives on debit from modern banks. USA took record amounts of cash from the bank, ever wonder why even during one of the worst inflations and fuel price hikes, stock exchange had the best year? Government sell bonds to bank and give them a share in the stock market and bank have the ability to lend the cash which it don't even possess. Debit, that you have to pay in tax money among other things. Be the judge for yourself...

[@justanavargegoogleuser6410]

"At the time they pledged to be moderate" key word 'at the time'

[@blackcat7k]

"Moderate Taliban" *_BWAHAHAHA!_*

[@Jake-rm4be]

It was joke to have ever thought they could be moderate

[@suddenstorm8]

It really is the biggest joke. Moderate Religious Extremist Group is an oxymoron and anyone who believed it was possible was just a moron.

[@holowise3663]

Same with "moderate muslims"

[@TheJohnnyJohnny]

Taliban made a good joke that I'm really happy you fall for them lol.

[@iamverylucky]

@@holowise3663 simp

[@theeternalchronicler3072]

A moderate Taliban.....and people actually believed them? Smooth brains.

[@LegitJDG534]

people who prioritize religious "correctness" over all else, don't run an economy well? This video is just confirming what everyone with a brain was expecting.

[@xMoonlove]

Except they’re not following Islam properly… most Muslims in the gulf are against Taliban because they take things too extreme.

[@mazin_iq1499]

@@xMoonlove they are using islam as a political tool to control the area tbh since most of the aghans are muslims

[@lavasurfer6548]

That's true, shame what's happening

[@gamerforever4837]

Please what religions are not all lies and fake to control simple people? Nothing in real history not bedtime story books for kids, about a zombie walking around is there?

[@LegitJDG534]

@@gamerforever4837 there are those religions that have separation of church and state (they know to keep their faith to just spiritual matters) when it comes to Afghanistan the new management considers the "good book" as interpreted by "the educated" is considered what is right if all scenarios regardless of any factor such as the factor of their being food to eat. Since they've got a proven track record to back their beliefs with bullets and believe in Islam over all willing or otherwise, containment is the only practical option unless we go for the CCP's approach which the liberal world can't accept.

[@andrasbeke3012]

Interestingly, they banned all opiate production in the country. Afghanistan produced a majority of all opium in the world, so that'd plenty of cropland to grow food they can't afford to buy from other countries anymore I'm a little hopeful that this move will do a lot to help the food situation

[@idleishde6124]

It's just banned for the average grower. The Taliban itself will keep growing and selling, they've just limited the market.

[@mohammaddasi9495]

I hope so

[@andrasbeke3012]

@@idleishde6124 That's a popular theory, but there really isn't any evidence of that. The edict in April called for a nation wide ban, so it wouldn't be a great look for them to keep growing on the side. The Taliban sees international aid as more valuable than opium, so they're trying to fight heroin production to look good for the cameras.

[@Arcaryon]

@@idleishde6124 I second this argument, it’s unlikely that they would suddenly stop the production, faced with a massive ( self inflicted ) economic crisis, especially since our folks specifically didn’t do that because our analysts predicted massive riots, that’s how integral the plants are to Afghanistans economy.

[@alexfrank5331]

@@idleishde6124 Exactly. Instead of selling legal opiate that need to follow regulatory rules and quality standards, they're probably turning them into much more lucrative heroin.

[@sweepingtime]

Lol I expected zero moderation from the Taliban. They were always going to fail, and I’m glad they do. Too bad the people under their rule will always suffer.

[@amirgholizadeh6644]

The people under their rule desperately wanted them to come back and take control. A vast majority of Afghan people do not believe in democracy or any other western values.

[@rohankishibe8259]

Of course they're failing, decades in wars and their only cash left is now stolen by the US!!!!! What do you think will happen? You westerners are just enjoying it, the famine, the death, the depression, all out of spite because you lost to the locals wills of not surrendering to you.

[@RipCityBassWorks]

I mean, Ghani is a grifter, nobody should be surprised that the Taliban have a better hand on government finances than him. Ghani raided the treasury and ran off with his warlord buddies when shit hit the fan.

[@IncrediblyStupidName]

When the Taliban collapses, I'm interested in seeing how Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia and China will divide the country.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Afghanistan chose the Taliban after 20 years of coalition efforts. That's a sign of just how crap the coalition efforts were.

[@jantschierschky3461]

Well if you have a population that wants to stay in its tribal society, no amount of effort etc will do. Except in big cities to an extent

[@awdrifter3394]

@@jantschierschky3461 yep. The Afghans chose to support the Taliban, so let them deal with the consequences.

[@jantschierschky3461]

@Ka GU well Afghan army evaporated.

[@Mic_Glow]

@Ka GU if 20 pickup trucks can roll into a city and take it over with 0 resistance from the army, I wouldn't call it a loss. More like unwillingness. Almost as if the army (recruited from citizens) was also supporting the talibs

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

@@jantschierschky3461 Coalition and Afghan government never tried to do anything in rural areas, aka they never tried to bring them to there side.

[@Ennio444]

Do the Taliban call their leader Amir al-Mu'minin? Because that's the more formal title that we translate as "Caliph". I wasn't aware that the Taliban claimed to rule the Caliphate of universal Islam

[@amazigh8776]

No. More like a sultanate not lika a caliphate

[@Ennio444]

@@amazigh8776 Sultan is never translated as Amir al-Mu'minin. This is a very specific title. You don't just claim the title of Pope and expect people not to draw lines and expectations.

[@jonathancurran5366]

Amir or Emir translates to something like commander.

[@Ennio444]

@@jonathancurran5366 I know, but Amir al Mu'minin means, specifically, Commander of the Faithful, the title all Caliphs had as their main form of address, like when Harun al Rashid sent Roman emperor Nikephoros a letter starting "from Harun al Rashid, commander of the faithful, to Nikephoros, Roman dog". It means Caliph, clear as that.

[@amazigh8776]

@@jonathancurran5366 leader or prince

[@willys2747]

Afghan people overwhelmingly opted for taliban in a democratic process. Let them enjoy the benefits of their choice.

[@robertknotoff3389]

Lets hope if there is no one to fight things can recover . Man kind is not doing well looks like things will continue on the course it's been going on for as long as we can remember .

[@superflyguy4488]

The Taliban are no doubt less corrupt than the regime they replaced, but the lack on international money previously used to shore up the Afghan economy is long gone.

[@harukrentz435]

They dont even treat women equally how on earth you can say they are no doubt less corrupt?

[@kaptinbarfbeerd1317]

@@harukrentz435 Corruption in politics refers to using positions of power for personal gain. Corruption has nothing to do with the treatment of women in general.

[@TylerSolvestri]

Less corrupt? They are the same thing. They don't even have an economy lol

[@ammarhaziq919]

@@harukrentz435 pretty sure most of government in the past (including western world) treat women horribly but still capable of having good economy, i dont think 'women rights' equal to 'good economy', it doesnt make sense, the main problem with Taliban is they were exhausted by war, very long war since soviet invasion almost 40 years ago, what worse is no one really recognized them after they took over Kabul, trading with outside partner is near impossible, some muslim countries (like Saudi, UAE, Pakistan, Malaysia) try to recognized them but fear of USA and his gangs economic sanctions upon them, which will make things worse, and also dont forget USA steal all afghan money worth of 7 billion USD, perhaps USA wants to punish afghan people to make example of them to who really dare to fight their mighty american empire, Romans did the same to germanic people, if they cant conquer them they will make sure that people suffer horrible fate.

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@harukrentz435 This is what happens when people don't pay attention to the actual definition of words. Things just become simplified to mean the same thing. Corrupt just ends meaning the same thing as "bad". Corruption is bad, but not all bad things mean corruption.

[@DommTom]

"Without the Taliban, there would be no new Afghanistan"

[@dorottagati6883]

>US attacks afghanistan >war for 20 years >the economy is in shambles Amerikans: how could the talibans do this????

[@Ragnarok540]

Can someone please explain why they couldn't prepare for this eventuality in 20 years? I seriously don't understand how they let it happen again.

[@zacharydavis8197]

Afghanistan.... Graveyard of Empires.... as well as civil, local and most forms of goverment outside of your local community. It sucks what's happening to them, but years of fighting has lead to cycles of violence that is going to take years to break, and I doubt the Militias first Tailban is going to be the one to do it.

[@owenlindkvist5355]

"Graveyard of Empires" Which is a misleading title since no empire recorded to possess the territory suffered holding it in any significant way, nor fell as a result of the territory.

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

@@owenlindkvist5355 The USSR is probably the closest one to the title being true. It was one of the numerous reasons the USSR failed.

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me I think its safe to say the USSR would have failed even without it

[@owenlindkvist5355]

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Fair point.

[@GrayFoxHound9]

@Sophie David it fell because it got horrible logistical, management and economical problems stockpiling with ideology taking priority over fixing any of said problems. It's not that soviet union cannot be maintained in modern world, it's more that people running slowly collapsing due to relatively fixable problems soviet union think of acknowledging and fixing problems as of something contradicting ideology and the moment they start fixing those problems some idiots attempt another revolution or coup to put the status quo back. Also it was pretty poor with treating everyone but russians. Was not much different from imperial russia in that regard - mass repressions, deportations and forced transition to russian language were all present. This is why baltik states, poland and ukraine are disgusted by the mere mention of soviet union and actively awaited moment to jump off this joke of a union.

[@genghiskhan6809]

By this point, I think it would legitimately be better for Afghanistan to either breakup or outright be swallowed up by its neighbors.

[@TheFi0r3]

That would only lead to war between Iran and Pakistan.

[@ihavenojawandimustscream4681]

They should be divided between Iran and Pakistan.

[@EquinoxKiwi]

@desneribe MMMM BORDER GORE

[@TheNapkuchen]

If there's anything that we can learn from africa is that this kind of thinking is a rotten band-aid. Maybe Afghanistan needs to officially fail as a state but planned annexations aren't the answer. It would ofc be hard for the afghan people because of the violent nature of such an event but it seems like there would be no difference to their current or near future situation anyway. I just hope that they figure it out somehow for their own sake so the violence and sorrow can come to an end.

[@dabruh6997]

honestly the UN should've let iran invade afghanistan in the late 90's, then the afghans could've been in a better situation

[@holyguy2940]

“Conquering is easy, ruling is harder”

[@Angelofdeth20]

Oh no who possibly could have seen this coming?

[@hambatuhan3165]

Some decisions to hold on their money also have impact on the famine problem. The most impacted gorup is ordinary people and I am sad that "the new government" can't compromise their beliefs, just a bit to make make sure they get to fed their people, not that I am not blame the ones who are holding their money.

[@MetallicReg]

Well not exactly „their“ money. Those were help funds from other countries for the old government. Those funds are only granted if there are checks anyway.

[@ailediablo79]

Bru don't we need not to forget the actions of USA against Afghanistan after they got out. They f stopped aid. It is not like USA done anything meaningful to Afghanistan economy. Also it is not like Taliban where given a healthy economy or a country. This crap needs at least 10 years to start fixing. It would not heal until at least 10 years if not 40 years to offset the 43 years of warfare from Sovit-Afgan war to until 2021. It is the hardest job to lead Afghanistan. What happened so far is obviously obvious. Wait 10 years then make a video.

[@absyahwa7698]

TALIBAN DIDNT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CLAIM THE MONEY OF PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT, THEY MUST MAKE SURE THE WORLD THAT THEY WILL NOT USE THE MONEY FOR TERRORISM ACTIVITIES

[@stoneruler]

@@ailediablo79 Actually the US poured in a lot of money to help build afghan economy. Check out the "Ring Road". And with the Taliban carrying out terror attacks now and then, no foreign country would want to invest there, so go blame someone else.

[@dustyfox6511]

@@ailediablo79 The guy you're replying to didn't make the video.

[@makessense2u1]

Some liberals in India had once said that the Taliban was better than the current Indian govt as they gave press conferences, which the current Indian PM doesn't give. Well, that comment has aged well. Like, really well! 😂😂😂

[@akihokokurosaki]

Talibreals*

[@zyanego3170]

Liberandu moment.

[@justsomeguy1695]

well the PM still doesn't give us press conferences either then what's the difference between our PM and the Taliban?

[@mrityunjaytiwari6224]

@@justsomeguy1695 yes . What a genius where are your feets sir

[@anahita-bn6cy]

@@justsomeguy1695 oh god are u serious!!!!!!! Librandu

[@terrynewsome6698]

For years I said this would happen, I hate I was right.

[@anhkhoanguyen7854]

As a Vietnamese, I say give them time. You can't just rebuild the economy in 1 year, especially when facing sanctions, post-war devastation, covid,... You could say it was like Vietnam in 75, the war was just over, the economy is shit and we even have to pay the debt to the US(145M USD) that they loan to the south puppet government. thank god for the USSR, Cuba, and other communist countries for aiding us back then Also, the collapse of the afghan army was mainly due to poor logistics, which heavily relied on US bases. they were isolated and undersupply which led to the stunning collapse. The airforce ran away, I was even surprised many of those things got in the air with the poor maintenance. a quick reminder that the US military spent 28M USD on jungle camouflage for a desert army.

[@greatninja2590]

Depends on what they do in the initial years so far it still doesn't look good even if they say they earn money their methods are via drug trades(no their "promise" of reducing opium production doesn't count) and pretty much stealing money from farmers or random cars unless they don't want to get shot. Plus I doubt vietnam or say Japan still used over 50% of their budget for their military after the war.

[@orlock20]

This is the Taliban's fault. People don't do business with people that attack them, like what has happened in Pakistan, or lied to them like the case with the West. Also their crop fields are full of marijuana and opium which they encouraged when they were attacking the West. The Taliban do have access to $1 trillion in minerals according to Soviet geologists when USSR invaded Afghanistan. Not even China wants to mine it through its Belt and Road initiative.

[@ComradeAesthetic]

You can't just compare a competent government who fought against many invaders to a terrorist group, that is entirely different.

[@mariosmatzoros3553]

You cannot really compare Vietnam to Afghanistan though.

[@reddawn1873]

baaaaaase

[@thundershirt1]

Wait, what, the Taliban needs the “International Community?” I thought God gave them victory. I thought God was better than the IC. Afghanistan will know no peace until their notions of God and politics changes. We tried to help them with that for two decades, and failed miserably. That might finally change when their vision of God actually gets implemented.

[@van20aguas]

It's like helping someone who didn't want your help in the first place.

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

Let's talk about America and their religious interference in politics shall we?

[@blakelewison9872]

It’s never gonna change. Just give up on them and improve your own life.

[@Zhicano]

"We tried to help them". Bullshit. For 50 years the west helped Afghanistan by creating the problem of the Taliban in the first place.

[@REDnBLACKnRED]

@@Zhicano Ultimately it always comes down to western powers meddling in other parts of the world for their resources, and they do it by destabilising local power structures, undermine local cultures, draw nonsense borders cutting across religious and ethnic lines, and then in the end when they can't handle the problem they created anymore, they leave and complain about the mess that's left behind. Literally every major conflict in the world today can be drawn back to the US, the British and French empires.

[@louieuy7607]

Here we go again. Angry little men will spread like wildfire from this country again

[@amirgholizadeh6644]

It has been spreading even before the Taliban took over. Now they will just be a bit more organised and well-funded.

[@familyacounttv6667]

?

[@roland228]

What do you expect from people who believe that this world is worthless and all that matters is what happens in the next? I bet that they even consider all this economic hardship to be a good thing because of their belief that good living standards causes "spiritual corruption" whatever that is.

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Well who didn't see that coming...

[@scotandiamapping4549]

Finally! A TLDR update on Afghanistan!

[@MelbourneMeMe]

the Afghan disaster was a Joe Biden creation, TLDR are rabid leftists, hence the silence...

[@ashcarrier6606]

About as well as you'd expect from Bronze Age people who've only read one book their whole lives...and that book not being on economics.

[@twomp5613]

Actually the Quran does talk about economics it bans interest loans and demand all Muslims give 2.5% of what they make a year to charity.

[@rohankishibe8259]

Not that the US froze these people's 9 billion dollars to pay for their veterans and causing famine just out of spite because they lost? Okay hindu...

[@ashcarrier6606]

@@twomp5613 Try growing your GDP without interest rates.

[@gediminaskucinskas6952]

@@smai4239 Thats not phobia. He is stating as it is. Lets be real Taliban are not particularly highly educated in economics. They are much better educated in their religion, but you can look at Turkeys Erdogan and how well his experiment of trusting religion over the economic laws went.

[@smai4239]

@Nemusis 999 yeah I agree with you I rethought the comment I will delete it

[@thecrimsonfuckeralucardlor5087]

Well that's completely expected.

[@jaye1967]

Let me guess 0 for 4. I don't think they made it a day after the US left before they started not doing those things before them not doing some of those appeared in the news here. My guess is in most of the country it started when they heard the US was pulling out.

[@jarodiking2559]

aha when the insurgency becomes a government and then has to deal with an insurgency problem, the irony

[@jacob1991bech]

Thank you for making these videos guys! Great News 😉

[@TheDrexxus]

A group of abusive murderers of innocent men, women, and children with absolutely zero concept of proper morality has not kept their word??? Color me surprised...

[@agentrune5223]

Tldr: what a shock

[@de0509]

If only we still have Jamsheed the RPG Boss.

[@saumypatel8441]

At this point we should stop all foreign intervention in afghanistan and just let afghans decide for themselves on their future

[@jhonklan3794]

We wanted they to do that, but then they supported terrorists that attacked us, and refused our offers to peaceably deal with the issue. If they don't repeat their aggression, then we will be fine.

[@Kupoinfo]

I don't think anyone is surprised by this shocking development

[@TheColombianSpartan]

The taliban being incapable of dealing with an islamist insurgency is... very ironic

[@andygreen7314]

Well this video starts off with the stupid idea that there was a faint hope of a more moderate Taliban.

[@Kuolonen]

Before you feel too bad for Afghans, keep in mind they have 40 million population. This is not a few districts ruled by ISIS as in Syria, they have a whole country to themselves. You can't do that with only a small minority support when your highest military tech is the AK. Taliban was what they wanted, which is why they won against the western backed government. Let them enjoy their promised land of religious fundamentalism. If they feel hungry they just need to pray harder, God is on their side right?

[@freedomofspeech3485]

Agreed, and people should stop sending aid... people might mean well with the aid, but it makes them dependent on the aid and never thought about changing their way of life.

[@Kuolonen]

@@freedomofspeech3485 And this was exactly how things were under Taliban rule 20 years ago, absolutely no-one has the excuse of not knowing how things would turn out when they are back on top. Imagine if Nazis had violently conquered Germany 20 years after the war, and then pinky promised not to be Nazis. Would anyone be surprised if after a year of Nazi rule Jewish people would be wearing yellow badges with the star of David? And more to the point would anyone be feeling sorry for Germans when the vast majority seem to silently support them?

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

Western backed government failed because they ultimately did not care about rural areas, focusing there extremely limited capabilities (because of endemic corruption) on major cities. In that situation, even fucking Talibans are better deal for those people, stack between western backed idiots and fundamental islamic maniacs.

[@CrazyYurie]

Agreed. Fuck them.

[@thedrunkenrebel]

At least they're busy terrorizing their own nation instead of branching outside. Stupid people ruling stupid people. Poor young women and kids suffering an incredible fate in this amazing safe heaven. Too sad that part of the world was seeping history and has a priceless cultural value to the world. Now is bombed and ruled by old cünts with rifles. Just like the US, but worse

[@ralphso5567]

Long story short. Politicians being politicians not promising stuff. not surprising

[@davidias9020]

Thank You, United States and Britain, for backing those terrorists against Soviet Army and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, and also backing the Pakistani and Saudi dictatorships that funded, sheltered and armed them. :)

[@nevets2371]

Yup, the middle east is too much trouble to warrant influencing. If there wasn't so much easy oil there would only be reasons to steer clear of it.

[@chadzahirshah2588]

You mean the dictatorship of Taraki and his clowns who killed our original president who was already secular and pushing for modernism? The same clowns who threw Afghanistan into a major civil war to prop up their “communism” ideology? Yeah such a “Democratic Republic of Afghanistan” it was for us. Stfu

[@a.p1675]

Cause all other muslim countries are so successful ....HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

[@prkp7248]

You don't see things like that in Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia or Bangladesh. It is not about religion, it is about geography and economy.

[@Michael-du2fv]

@@prkp7248 It's about extremism, uneducated fanatics only interested in their own power and wealth while preaching and claiming their God gives them the right to oppress others. Always leads to a crippled third world country, they only know how to pillage and not build.

[@joeyjoejoeshabadoo1411]

Haha moderate Taliban. The Afghans didn't want to fight back against the Taliban after all the training weapons provided to them by NATO. Everyone new what the Taliban are and as sad as it is, Afghanistan get what they deserves.

[@CutieZalbu]

So innocents deserve to die because they are subjugated by force? Would you say the same about North Korea? Such an evil thing to say!

[@hanzalaomar9915]

Taliban are a moderate unlike the extreme killing machines that west are. Plus they offer a far superior ideology to whatever west has to offer. No wonder people didn't resist. They saw the devils for what they are ie devils

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@CutieZalbu People who aren't willing to change deserve whatever consequences arise as a result of their inaction.

[@joeyjoejoeshabadoo1411]

@@CutieZalbu life isn't fair. I feel for those children more than you could understand, they don't deserve it. But when western contries spent 20years training, arming and assisting the Afgan people, only for them to roll on there backs, in alot of cases with out guns even being fired. Afghanistan didn't want to change and they made their deal with the devil. As usual the innocent are the first to suffer. Also, you can't compare the Korean war with what happened in Afghan.

[@BlackEpyon]

It doesn't help that their leadership turned tail and ran the moment the Taliban approached.

[@yansen1568]

Early, a rare thing for me.

[@dimaignatiev6370]

Well it's not the first time ...

[@BlackDogOriginal]

What a wise investment that was

[@markerichannelly]

Terrorists are still terrorists? Shocker 🙄

[@stefanstruger9949]

one mans terrorist is another mans hero.

[@MyLe-iz2tx]

The afghan can figure it out without any international community. We should just let them figure out their thing and keep our resources to more reasonable projects

[@smishmaster]

shocker