War in Afghanistan (1978-present): Every Two Weeks {UPDATED}

[@TheGilliams]

Mistake: I messed up the music credits at the end. Here are the songs I used: Guardians - Evan King Rallying The Defense - Per Kiilistofte What Are You Prepared to Sacrifice - Crysis 3 Soundtrack

[@TheGilliams]

@Ramzan Kadyrov The programs I use are in the credits of the video

[@scottgamer1769]

@@TheGilliams Nce

[@smashb3766]

Where is this info from? Ur ass or ur dreams?

[@smashb3766]

@Ramzan Kadyrov comes from inside his ass

[@greeneast]

hello gilliams, i would like to mention that although this isnt big enough to be shown on the map in June 2003 the Pakistan Frontier Corps "Marched 5 kilometres into Afghanistan and seized the village of "Ghulam Khan" in Afghanistan which is located at the southern point of Khost

[@zavi7919]

Speeches by non-Americans would’ve been really cool for this video I think. It would’ve been interesting to hear maybe Brezhnev and both declarations of the Islamic emirate

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

Социалистические страны, идут нага в но -гу

[@cqpp]

@@G3E007 they don't speak arab in Afghanistan. They speak Pashto and Dari.

[@fasoooli2751]

@@G3E007 doesn't mean it's ok to lie about what language they speak you don't sound very respectful

[@BoogerSugar420]

@@fasoooli2751 I don’t respect terrorists

[@fasoooli2751]

@@BoogerSugar420 national atlantic terrorist organisation

[@libertyprime7871]

It's impressive to see, that republic of Afghanistan held for so long even after USSR pulled out. Especially when you compare it to Americans as Afghanistan felt in less than a week.

[@thedreamscripter4002]

Well, probably because USSR tried to put native afghani government in control - soviets only needed it to be communistic and subordinate of USSR. They weren't interested in keeping Afghanistan under direct control. So soviets actively trained afghani communistic forces and government and helped them with money and equipment - but that clearly wasn't enough so soviets actively used their own military since 1979, trying to keep everything under control. So when soviets pulled out, afghani government still fought for some time, even though lost eventually.

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

@@Rosa-cr7qc It was my first time hearing the word communistic, but it's a real word. I guess libs just have more vocabulary than you.

[@case3270]

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me lmao, not sure why he said "libs" but it is also my first time hearing communistic.

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

@@case3270 I think it's because that's similar to how they say it in this person's language, he is clearly not English.

[@danielkirpichnikov2007]

@@case3270 Because they are not communists, but communistic forces.

[@jingjie7955]

The only video that shows 1978 to today. Fantastic and detailed

[@walterwhite1588]

One of the interesting thing is after decades of war , Its territorial integrity is still intact.

[@generalissimusleon]

Shows the colonial influence of all these civil wars.

[@psychokinrazalon]

None of these wars were ever about border expansion.

[@walterwhite1588]

@@psychokinrazalon they don't recognize border with Pakistan though. One of the reason why Pakistan has always been in olved there

[@psychokinrazalon]

@@walterwhite1588 Exactly. Border expansion is meaningless. Hence why they’ve never fought any wars for that purpose.

[@walterwhite1588]

@@psychokinrazalon yeah, you are right

[@decus9544]

Imagine being an Afghani born in, say, 1973, pretty much all of living memory would be of war.

[@lookingforsomething]

If I could I'd have Bush answer for war crimes to set an example to other leaders not to invade other countries. Nothing was gained but over a hundred thousand dead civilians, millions of refugees and homeless and increased radicalization, instability and devastation.

[@WeGoAllTheWayUp]

@@lookingforsomething tell that to china and russia

[@lookingforsomething]

@@WeGoAllTheWayUp Sure, saying one is not as bad as the worst tyrannies that murdered millions of their own people, is really indicative of how low the bar has been set for the US. Guantanamo Bay is a travesty, and no Western country should ever do such, as was the murderous invasion of Afghanistan. Bush should be in jail, just as Xi Jiping and Putin.

[@abbb123]

@@WeGoAllTheWayUp especially the Sowjets forced men from lithuania, estonia, poland, latvia, Czech to Fight in Afghanistan and Made them addicted to heroine. It was a Crime to the afghan Population but also to the oppressed People by the communists in these States

[@ilyatsukanov8707]

@@abbb123 lol Czechs and Poles were forced to fight in Afghanistan under the Soviets? Open a history book! Soviets never forced their Warsaw Pact allies to go fight in their war, unlike the US - which by the way did use Czech and Polish forces after the countries joined NATO.

[@coasterhockygamingboy9549]

This event should be known as the Afghan Wars, because it was a series of non stop wars taking place in Afghanistan. Kind of like the Napoleonic Wars.

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

@99 Pakistan didn't start this civil war, you absolute buffoon It was initially an only Afghan civil war, which eventually led to the soviets intervening and America later intervening as well Pakistan was pulled into this war, since the Taliban/Tehrik-e-Taliban directly occupied parts of Pakistan, mainly the Swat Valley

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

@99 oh ok nice

[@Momolulu1994]

@99 are you responsible when coalitions decide to attack you?

[@johnmcpudding857]

@99 Thank you for at least trying to explain things despite the dumb shit thrown your way. I'm in no way qualified nor well-read enough to question the validity, but I do appreciate your efforts anyway in this thunderdome that is YT comment sections.

[@enderreaper1482]

@99 he was talking about the nepoleonic wars since Napoleon didn’t start most of the wars

[@nanzymyap]

As an Afghan it hurts to know my family lived through all of his.😔

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

I hope your family and you are all safe and well now

[@prod.kikirich]

@@kiwuuspurr1927 Prolly not

[@abdelkarim8381]

@@prod.kikirich actually they are Afghanistan finally has peace after all this war! It was mostly due to USA, USSR and traitors. Now it's finally back to its rightful owners.

[@dr.wallacebreen3859]

@@abdelkarim8381 the Taliban?

[@dr.wallacebreen3859]

@@abdelkarim8381 🎪

[@gengarzilla1685]

It's almost weird to think that this country embroiled in decades of conflict was relatively peaceful in both world wars.

[@deltap6967]

They tend to be, if you're not involved in the world wars then they caught up to you

[@Random_Panda_eating_cake]

They had a huge civil war beetween the two wars

[@iscreenshotedthisguyongoog7422]

if not for soviet and us invasions it would be as peacefull as before. But i dont think that living in islamic state is that peacefull at all.

[@hrotha]

@@iscreenshotedthisguyongoog7422 It wasn't exactly peaceful before the USSR invaded

[@Coecoo]

Not weird at all. It's a conflict-ridden third world shìthole.

[@wayner396]

Excellent video. Though I feel it best viewed at 75% speed as the info and changes went by so fast. I appreciate that you show the entire series of conflicts that poor country has gone through for the past 40 years.

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

Poor country? Afghanistan has always been an evil oppressive country filled with pedophiles.

[@kamilkashaf2766]

I'm from Pakistan. I have to say this is very accurately made, down to the events and geopolitical alignment of countries that neighbor Afghanistan. Good job!

[@mint8648]

zindabad

[@kamilkashaf2766]

@Vizzy Jam Culturally maybe not, geostrategically speaking most Pakistani's know Afghanistan well.

[@blacksheep6174]

@MortalGame TV Love back from Pakistan Karabakh is Azerbaijan

[@sarthakiii]

@@kamilkashaf2766 love Pakistan from India 🇮🇳❤️🇵🇰

[@alimo606]

No one cares, Pakistan is not special.

[@newstartyt3700]

Biden: *speaks* Afghanistan: time to become grey

[@braxtonjones6163]

Seriously I get wanting to get out of Afghanistan but Biden basically handed Afghanistan on a silver platter. He left the Airfields/bases before getting all our allies and civilians out first and didn’t even let the Afghan government know. The Afghans were trained to go into combat with air support. He literally pulled Military out before civilians leaving Kabul defenseless, then the realization hit him and was forced to bring back troops, too little too late. They even were offered control of the Kabul airport via the Taliban they refused which ultimately led to 12 dead Marines and 1 sailor. Biden had more time then Trump to get this right but he was to busy appealing the the LGBT+ Alphabet community.

[@alphamikeomega5728]

Afghanistan: I'm gray!

[@braxtonjones6163]

@No Commentary Gaming Yes Biden had more time he had no exit plan because he didn’t start evacuating until July. Yes I know about the warnings the pentagon gave them, but just like fool Biden “assured” everyone that “it’s unlikely for the Taliban to take all of Afghanistan”.

[@braxtonjones6163]

@No Commentary Gaming Special forces were he only one’s fighting and before leaving Ghani had told the Afghans forces to lay down their arms. This wouldn’t have happened if Biden maintained the situation on the ground literally left all airbases before clearing.

[@berakhastore6463]

@@braxtonjones6163 i hate lqbtqia+

[@averagejoe8358]

Let's be real, we never controlled Afghanistan in the first place. We couldn't step a toe outside our FOB's without being heavily armed or without being shot at.

[@thebattlefieldnick1]

It's actually funny that the video is pretty accurate in depicting the soviets only holding on to thin portions while it shows the americans holding on to huge territories, and yet taliban roamed freely within these, methinks an american made this video.

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

@@thebattlefieldnick1Why would it be surprising if an American made this video. This is an American platform about a war with the USA.

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

@@thebattlefieldnick1Also the taliban had support from the local population including in nato controlled territories.

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

@@thebattlefieldnick1Also the map is accurate so keep crying commie.

[@AcidMushTV]

"I've concluded that's it's time to end America's longest war" Taliban: me too

[@thekaiser1156]

Yea, it was a genius idea to tell the enemy exactly when the government you supported was going to stop receiving bullets Biden. Almost as smart as forcing them to release 5,000 Taliban veterans and gutting their air force/logistics IN THE MIDDLE OF A TALIBAN OFFENSIVE. Seriously, it was almost like he wanted America to lose in the most humiliating way possible.

[@thekaiser1156]

@@Valk369 That's just not true and is a posthoc justification of your horrendous failure in Afghanistan. The government did well over 99% of the actual fighting and held all the major population centers as well as over 95% of the population for the last 5 years well America sat in their bases and fixed up planes and gave them bullets. You force that government to release 5,000 Taliban veterans well they're fighting a pandemic and drought, gut their air force and logistics during the Taliban offensive, refuse to allow them to kill thousands of Taliban prisoners then tell the Taliban and the government soldiers that come three weeks time, they're simply not going to receive bullets and obviously it's going to fall apart. Like if your house burned down and you were trying to rebuild it well fighting cancer, than I release a 50 killers, take away your weapons then tell you and the killers exactly when you're going run out of bullets for the pistol I left you, I don't then get to blame you for being killed or say you were going to be killed anyway by the killers I released.

[@Alex_1400]

@@thekaiser1156 The afghan war ending and the US government getting humiliated is a GOOD thing

[@aryan_bhat]

@@thekaiser1156 How did America loose? After estimating the amount of money that they'd be saving after withdrawing from Afghanistan, it's most sensible to say they won.

[@thekaiser1156]

@@aryan_bhat they lost the same way they lost in Vietnam.

[@hi-il7ug]

My mom’s family is from Afghanistan. It’s quite bizzare how decades of war have desensitized them. After immigrating to the US, my grandma saw someone get shot in the face right in front of her. She feels sorry for what happened to the poor man, but there is no trace of trauma or fear. Sometimes I wish I was strong like them, but I am grateful to have lived a life of ease where I don’t need to be as desensitized as them.

[@inkunziknox7714]

In some safer countries you don't even need to see people shot in the face.

[@scoobydoobers23]

@@inkunziknox7714 Yeah, but in those countries you have to suffer from socialized medicine. I'd rather be shot in the face. /s

[@clonesolar]

@@scoobydoobers23 Here is the ignorant American who is stuck in the 1960s and doesn't want free Healthcare. Fuck

[@linnenbach123]

@@clonesolar there is no free healthcare

[@clonesolar]

@@linnenbach123 well, in Europe there is yea ding dong,

[@benjybrasington9508]

4:00 but if you close your eyes 7:13 does it almost feel like nothing changed at all

[@feanorasia0414]

lol

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Ofcourse.

[@yuri0568]

😢

[@mcboat3467]

Ah yes I like how USA also killed another secular republic just so they could exploit thier resources

[@mcboat3467]

And then blamed on Afghan people lol

[@againwithadifferentname4880]

In this war, I lost 3 of my aunts, and my grandfather from my mother and my dads side. My grandmother got shot in the head and survived. Although she had issues with walking after that. I believe Allah let her live because most of her children weren't even teens. My uncle joined the sunni mujahideen, and fought under Ahmad Shah massoud, and after the war, went to live in Saudi Arabia because he did not want to kill innocent Afghan civilliains. After the Soviet-Afghan war, when I was 3, my dad was kidnapped by the Taliban, and escaped from them after 3 years. He told me there were some others with him too, but they couldn't escape with him. Last year, one of his other fellow kidnapped friend was set free by the Taliban. I don't wish this to happen to anyone.

[@againwithadifferentname4880]

@Storozhevoy Ameen

[@सुदय-त8थ]

hope you are kidding

[@againwithadifferentname4880]

@@सुदय-त8थ I wish I was

[@mohamejd]

Im sorry you had to suffer all of that. May Allah give peace and prosperity to your people

[@AntonioSahalaba]

My congratulations to afghan people, For freeing themselves from the invaders

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

Wow you don’t know anything about Afghanistan or that war.

[@thebattlefieldnick1]

@@MuslimsAreEvil22 Do share your wisdom with us.

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

@@thebattlefieldnick1 It was a complicated war and way too complicated for me to type out in a comment. It wasn’t just us invaded and afghans kicked them out. Afghanistan was in civil war before the war and we reduced our forces and relied on corrupt pedophiles that we put in power.

[@syedrafi2258]

​​@@MuslimsAreEvil22 oh so you love occupation ,abuse and tyraany on Muslim nations I m not surprised seeing your profile name InshaAllah same will happen to you Once palestine is liberated

[@ThatOneRussianTank]

Any Russian or American kid who says they didn't lose but left Afghanistan, shows how hard it is for them to cope with their defeat.

As someone who edited the Afghan wiki since 2019, I'd say this is quite accurate. Perfect accuracy is genuinely impossible since even we weren't able to put down that textbook accuracy. Some districts weren't under Taliban control in 2008, such as in Miray in Kandahar.

[@thatoneguy7781]

2011 was probably the last time we could've declared some sort of victory with the death of Bin Laden and pulled out before the decline started

[@aburoach9268]

Actually it went downhill from 2006 onward / this simulation Ignores the Contested Areas and simply paints them just blue which gives the viewer the false sense that that territory was under government control and safe, while it actually was a battleground with an active insurgency going on / in an Insurgency, just showing the controlled area's and not the contested one's does not give a full picture of the situation

[@greywolf7577]

At least we gave a few more years of freedom to millions of Afghans before the religious Fundamentalists took over.

[@pucheta9464]

@@greywolf7577 Imagine being invaded by a foreign country and becoming a puppet state, that does not sound like freedom

[@thegreatest1176]

@@aburoach9268 I agree. U.S was too busy with Iraq after 2005, and talibs were regrouping and staging attacks. Just ask the British in helmand.

[@baha3alshamari152]

​@@greywolf7577 I don't think US army bombing Kunduz civilian hospital in 2016 (or 2015 i don't remember exactly) is the freedom Afghan people want

[@LA-hx8gj]

It's a feeling hard to describe, where so much of my life is defined by the year I spent fighting in Afghanistan, only to be summed up with a couple of color changed over a few seconds of a 7-minute video. Infinite human struggles, each worthy of being told and remembered, will be forgotten forever. Really sad.

[@fakeeeacvounthhs1470]

On the side of the invaders? If that’s true, remember, you came to our country. We do not like Bin-laden, he was a terrorist, however, I don’t think that any of us would hand over a Muslim brother to an enemy without proof, no matter how hard the struggle. I do not know if the Afghans will ever forgive America and NATO for what they have done, but we are happy we have our country back

[@LA-hx8gj]

@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 have fun with your country.

[@greywolf7577]

@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 Your country is now under a dictatorship. America gave you a democracy and you threw it away just because you hate foreigners. Your people are starving because of this foolishness.

[@dumigamez397]

@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 If your from Afghanistan you couldn't be here and if your not you are sickening.

[@ToCatchALiarOnYoutube]

pls just sit down for a min and think ! Just think you aren’t American ! You are an afghan ! So now some terrorist come to your country kill 3,000 people ! And now you invade America and kill and bomb all American ! You overthrow the government and you put an American who has grown up in Afghanistan as the president but he can’t do anything without your permission ! And than you search and search but you don’t find the guy who you THINK maybe he is responsible ! So you couldn’t find him, but you stay there ! You stay for 20 years ! You bomb their marriage ceremony ! You kill children women civilian ! And some American take arms and stand against you and fight you !! And you the afghan will spend more than 10 billions dollar in media to call those American resistance fighter terrorist !! You who invaded USA you who killed and bombed American citizen you aren’t the terrorist ! But those American who are tired of your controlling over America and tired of you killing their people, those guys are now terrorist ! How are you feeling now ?? Are the Talibans Right ? Are you the Terrorist one or Taliban ??

[@nuggs4snuggs516]

I'm glad someone is showing this not just from the perspective of US intervention or the Soviet-Afghan War. Too often we only consider the suffering of our fellow Westerners, and neglect to open our eyes to the almost fifty years of pain and suffering the Afghani people have endured.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

I'm pretty sure most people know about the Soviet invasion

[@V1nce_man]

And the pain and suffering they’re gonna continue to feel- we should’ve never left the Taliban couldn’t have made those gains unless he chose to leave and we did!

[@milantoth6246]

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 they may know about it, but they place all of the blame on the us. As if the only reason behind the existence of the mujahideen was american support. Afgans are and were deeply religious people, and they didn’t take kindly to forced progressivism and state atheism. Not to mention that while not secular, the mujahideen were largely supporters of democracy and relatively high freedoms, not even comparable to the taliban.

[@amanrahmani2632]

@@milantoth6246 not true the group that got the bulk of the funding was Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and they pretty much all joined the taliban as they had similar ideologies

[@V1nce_man]

@@amanrahmani2632 But they weren’t the Taliban at the time- they played up a big game for freedom but when they finally got what they wanted many started the Taliban. The U.S. didn’t support the ideology of the Taliban they gave the weapons to freedom fighters by those same weapons were THEN given to the Taliban.

[@datechds9434]

Afghanistan: When you have a civil war end then another one starts and it ends then another one starts and then another one starts and then you get invaded.

[@Kaadjoisanavaliwithtoomuchtime]

then another one starts, then the country invading you has a civil war then another on starts, then another one starts controlling parts of you and the invading country, then another one starts then a faction from another country's civil war flees to you then another one starts

[@akiojayyid3171]

It's not a "vivil war" when 2 "super powers" invade your country. I'm very proud and happy that my country kicked out the satantic forces of these so-called super powers

[@Студент-й9ы]

США в 1980-х: Афганистан для русских должен стать их собственным Вьетнамом! США сейчас: Сиквел...

[@DuraStop]

хули раша делала в афганистане ? то же в чечне грузии итд?

[@Kamelskih]

@@DuraStop Раша? Может все таки СССР? Так его туда настойчиво приглашало местное правительство. Чечне? Т.е части Раши? Хули раша делала в раше? лолшта?

[@drowsyufo]

@@Kamelskih Россия в 2010х: США спонсирует и устанавливает отношения с террористами Россия сейчас: Сиквел...

[@wiyiwiyiwiyiwiyiwwiyiwiyiw1274]

Афганистан и стал Вьетнамом для совка , а США тупо оккупировали его за 2 месяца и сидели там

[@Студент-й9ы]

@@wiyiwiyiwiyiwiyiwwiyiwiyiw1274 Да, конечно. Сидели себе ровно, а как только собрались уходить - тут же внезапно оказалось, что они вообще страну не контролируют)

[@ahmedalbirti4090]

Love and support for Afghanistan 🇮🇶❤️🇦🇫 We hope for a better life away from wars sha' Allah

[@ahmedalbirti4090]

@Trannykiller9000 The universe was created by accident is not it ?

[@ahmedalbirti4090]

@Necromancer-ji7yb @Necromancer-ji7yb It is one of the stupidest things to say, since religions cause wars, then we should not embrace Islam Islam is different from other religions that call for ridiculous things, and Islam, through jihad, allows you to defend yourself and Muslims because religions command their adherents to kill Muslims or non-Muslims who oppose it. Did one of the Muslims or the polytheists attack during the Battle of Badr because they wanted to interfere in the affairs of others and kill all the Muslims even after they migrated to Medina? Did the Muslims attack Khaybar because they wanted to push their noses in as the Quraysh did, or because the Jews who betrayed the covenant and were expelled by the Prophet gathered in Khaybar in order to confront the Prophet from there? Did the Muslims conquer Mecca out of anger at the Quraysh or because they betrayed the covenant between them? Tell me What resulted from atheism? Atheism resulted in the passing of Nazi and communist ideas, and as a result the Russian Civil War occurred The Soviet Union arose, the Great Purge took place, Nazi Germany arose, World War II arose, and in the war between the communists and the Nazis, 23 million were killed!!! From atheism, communist ideas passed through China, and I do not need to talk about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and other things that communist China did. Now you say that religions cause wars, but we as Muslims cannot count our wars on the wars of Christianity The important thing is that if it were not for religions, many wars would not have occurred, and I say that if it were not for atheism, these hideous events would not have occurred.

[@HurricaneHunter03]

Little late to watch this on my part cause of vacation but i absolutely enjoyed this video, great job!

[@bosnianmapper403]

Great video! Very detailed. It must have taken you 43 years to make this xD

[@lionelllangitan6203]

ok but is no ways

[@domino5525]

@@lionelllangitan6203 Hey gregory have you heard of the hit game among us. I know its hard to be sus but you need to vent.

[@sore4408]

@@domino5525 LMAOO I FUCKING CANT THIS IS PURE COMEDY

[@paladinbob1236]

a must see for those who wish to understand the afghanstan conflict...truly..what a mess :(

[@bradyh1782]

"I've waited 84 years..."

[@jokuvaan5175]

43 years of war. Lets hope that it finally ends and that the living conditions of Afghans will truly improve and they can prosper. However unlikely that may seem now

[@damnationdan5253]

Especially since US sanctions will kill more people than the Taliban

[@manupino6065]

@@nlyrics156 you are justifying eceonomic sanctions on a country the US already signed peace with. Political and economic terrorism that is and americans should know best that economic bankrupt kills more than terrorism. If the US should mantain sanctions on that country they should not cry when retaliation arrives.

[@damnationdan5253]

@@nlyrics156 damn that's such a dumb thing to say

[@SheryAwan123]

Talibans are afghans why would they kill US sanction will kill millions and drive people to join Daesh k

[@outofthebox9699]

21 years for US intervention.

[@florentz3518]

The incredible hypocrisy of Americans to denounce Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (at the demand of the Afghan government, may I add) and yet they invade Afghanistan as soon as they get the chance.

[@jaeger7693]

It’s called 9/11 and bad people do bad things and try to kill other people so we have people that kill the bad people so they don’t kill other people.

[@florentz3518]

@@jaeger7693 9/11 literally happened as a consequence of American intervention! The Americans are the ones who trained and armed the Taliban!

[@florentz3518]

@Bernie Sanders ...yes? Who did you think did 9/11?

[@florentz3518]

@Bernie Sanders It's the same thing than the Taliban. It's like saying "Russian communists", "Soviet soldiers" or "Red Army"... different names, same group.

[@harriszahid7609]

@@florentz3518 Al Queda was Allies with the Taliban but then after Al Queda committed the attacks, the US demanded the Taliban give Osama over. At the time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan and was almost done fighting with the Northern Alliance. The Taliban refused to give him over and said if you have proof it’s him, they will send him to a neutral 3rd country. The US then prepared for its invasion. Taliban and Al Queda were Allies, but weren’t the same group

[@mero8051]

Thank you for the extra map of Kabul, I pointed out that it was lacking in the prior version.

[@genesdelsur-mapping2744]

I've been waiting for this one, thank you so much for continue it

[@james11norma17]

its kind of suprising to see just how long the US was losing the war in afganastan. Like I knew it wasn't going well, but compare 2005 to 2018 and its kind of shocking to see how much territory was lost. Makes you wonder if it might've been better if we pulled out then.

[@addisonmaynard4438]

Well at that time you could see that the Taliban was gaining land but had not taken any cities yet.

[@nokiatunes7256]

The USA took what they wanted, Afghanistan has alot of recoursces which the USA took and now they left as there is no reason to fight for some wasteland

[@game_developer_7382]

@@nokiatunes7256 Hahaha. Did USA left because of the wasteland? Are you in a dream or it hurts to you to accept the truth? The USA was forcibly expelled, not withdrawn voluntarily. If there would not resistance by the Taliban than we would see USA in the Afghanistan till present day and USA would not left Afghanistan never. Afghanistan is a stragetic and geopolitic country in the world, it means it is very importand and golden place. Afghanistan has border with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (These countries under Russia), Iran, Pakistan, China. Who want to left this coutnry, huh? Afghanistan is a silk road and rich with minerals. Nobody could not touch minerals in the Afghanistan in these 20 years. Because to take minerals of Afghanistan is hard and very expensive. And to do this in the war situtation is just creepy and useless. Minerals stays at the place. Afghanistan is a rich country and you will see it next 10 years. TALIBAN WIN.

[@greywolf7577]

@@nokiatunes7256 That's a lie. The US didn't extract resources from Afghanistan. The US spent far more money helping Afghanistan than it ever got in return.

[@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539]

@@greywolf7577 both helping and bombing it

[@sudoer4349]

Thanks. Now I'm waiting for visualisation of every second of war in Afghanistan.

[@NiIog]

Yeah, you definitely did much better than me, lol. Nice job though, can't wait to see what you upload next!

[@micahistory]

I was waiting for this on your channel, this was the video we needed

[@meatiest1989]

My family were in the Afghan Army during the Soviet Afghan war

[@krishivkaran5337]

Omg hi meatiest

[@meatiest1989]

@@krishivkaran5337 qkvewnvrsmcnfnf. F

[@AfG_313]

Cause they forced ppl

[@meatiest1989]

@@AfG_313 My uncle joined voluntarily (by himself) and my dad was drafted

[@meatiest1989]

@@AfG_313 my uncle also joined to ki|| mujahideen

[@TaraZaraChara]

This is really well done.

[@rama7267]

حيا الله دولة الخمارات

[@baha3alshamari152]

No it's medium rare

[@TroubledTrooper]

An Afghan leaving to be refugee in late 70s: "Dont worry war will be over before we know it and then we can return..." * *45 years & 4 months later* *

[@janon5815]

You can't just eradicate Islamic fundamentalism when the entire country is majority Islamic fundamentalism.

[@myoptimumpride5178]

They should had withdrew when they finally killed Osama there's really no hope winning this war if the majority of people are as much as fundementalists as their government.

[@ebadazizi8427]

I am from Afghanistan, and this map is true and sad it cost 4 million lives, it was all because Afghanistan has a wired ethnic politics that did not let any government stay for long nor the foreign powers have good intentions toward Afghanistan, the previews government was too carpeted and a huge gap between people and the authorities such as the last election 1 million people voted and where the population is around 35 million, 70% people lives in rural areas and they don't really care about what if a government collapses, and after 42 years Afghanistan is under control of only one group but the US has frozen Afghan Central Bank money which let to overall poverty and insecurity, right now too much mental pressure on us and where rest of the world enjoys peaceful life, not fear, speechless....

[@mentalillness1574]

What are your opinions on taliban/isis-k

[@Abbas-ck7wo]

It actually cost 2 million lives, still a lot but 50% less than what you said it was.

[@فهميكتاني]

@@mentalillness1574 I am not afghan like him but according to almost all Muslims Taliban are the role model for how to run a state and how people should behave and be like since they go by Islamic principals. IS on the other hand well they give the impression that they just want to seize power rather than wanting the best for Muslims and Islam, they do criticize wrong things done by Taliban and they are right but they are definitely not right to takfir Taliban and rebel against them as it's pretty much against Islamic law to catigorize someone for apostasy for just signing a cease fire like what taliban did and IS exaggerates and says that this cease-fire is cooperation with the enemies whether they are usa or china or iran. I'd find the best to rule the Muslim world to be similar more to al Qaida since they hold the middle ground they do not takfir people too irrationally like IS but also they are more global in their intrest unlike Taliban which is busy and rightfully so to serve their people to rebuild the Islamic emarate. It's a criticism though cause Islam bans nationalism and tribalism as all Muslims are the same and must be united in one state with one aim and goal to spread the law of God and justice. If you were wondering secularism is complete apostasy and heresy from Islam and spreading such ideas is punishable by death penalty cause it is basically a treason against Islam and Muslims. You got a good summary for what most Muslims believe about some of the groups. If you were wondering I am Arab Muslim.

[@abovethelaw4417]

@@فهميكتاني R u stupid? Taliban are not muslims, they are terrorists

[@abovethelaw4417]

@@فهميكتاني Stupid fcuk. Taliban don't know how to run a country because they destroyed the whole of Afghanistan during 1996-2001

[@PershingOfficial]

Persepolis - A great book to read that sheds light on situation similar to this. If I was mostly about Iran in the 70s but mentions many things about Iraq as well

[@RF_N]

"it is a deliberate effort of a powerful atheistic government to subjugate a religious muslim nation" USA a few years later:

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

USA became more atheistic than the USSR has ever been

[@spaghettiking7312]

I bow to you, sir.

[@Yuri_Burger]

Must have took so long. Excellent quality!

[@bigmacdonald9696]

Jesus christ it looks intense

[@TurtleChad1]

Afghanistan had the right to defend itself 💪

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

Afghanistan was ran by a Islamic terrorist organization that gave a safe haven to another terrorist organization that attacked the USA. Wake up to reality.

[@EldenGigachad]

​@@MuslimsAreEvil22افغانستان لم يحكمها ما تسميه انت الارهاب قبل الغزو السوفيتي ، بعد الغزو السوفيتي اتى الغزو الاميركي ليستغل ضعف الافغان بعد خروجهم من الحرب ، بختصار الذي يصنف الارهاب هو امريكا😂

[@daniglover3871]

@@MuslimsAreEvil22 u need to sleep like a 100 yrs then wake up 😂

[@MuslimsAreEvil22]

@@daniglover3871 Why because I know what I’m talking about and I’m not a braindead anti American person supporting terrorists?

[@tajuddinahmed3379]

​@@MuslimsAreEvil22You're a braindead pro American person supporting terrorists anyways

[@addisonsmith7949]

Thank you for part two there’s just one problem The pincher resistant you know wiped out

[@TheGilliams]

They're not totally wiped out, there remains some holdouts in the mountain areas.

[@dylangtech]

There's a lot wrong with what my country had been doing, but what a lot of people don't mention is the secrecy. What upsets me (an American) is just how little the American media talked about this. Even though they are extremely left-wing and controlled by the same few oligarchs, we still had no idea that anything was going on until late August 2021 when we started to hear a few rumors of our men were being encircled and destroyed. Days later we find out most of our newest equipment had being seized and re-sold to who knows where and that the puppet government was collapsing. The media doesn't report. They are the 4th branch of the government that needs new leaders.

[@callizoom3894]

"I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war" *One second later* Afghanistan has capitulated

[@Larsonteevee]

Imagine if that first coup failed and the monarchy remained. So many lives would be better

[@TheGilliams]

Although the monarchy was pretty stable, the seeds of the future war were already being planted before 1973. It's hard to say if Afghanistan would still be stable today if the monarchy remained, although probably more stable than it is now.

[@_CodeKnight]

That, but also if the communists never took power in 79, the monarchy and the following republic was stable.

[@Shuja_Khyber]

The best Afghan-civilwar video by far! Props to you and Congrats my mate, U have a new sub from me.

[@TWH-lp4bn]

*the country during the Afghan Civil War was not the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, it was the Islamic State of Afghanistan. The republic was made when the US put it in power in 2004.

[@TheGilliams]

Oh yea you're right, my bad. Not sure how I missed that.

[@alialsuri2490]

Panjasher pocket has been terminated

[@braxtonjones6163]

It hasn’t they’re not as active but are waiting for the perfect time to strike.

[@TheGilliams]

Not yet, although they did lose Bazarak on September 6th

[@yastheaustralian8590]

@@TheGilliams yes they lost it already now

[@garret16]

@@yastheaustralian8590 Not true. Theres video ev idence of there still being guerilla bands controlling the mountain areas, plus presence in East Andarab.

[@فهميكتاني]

@@braxtonjones6163 now dead and these apostates and heretics are now done with. The only military challenge taliban has other than preparing for future against china in east Turkistan is IS organisation in Afghanistan, but IS do not have the popularity of taliban so it doesn't seem like they'd win this one though it might cause annoyances here and there like constant assassinations and bombings here and there.

[@norwegianballshorts7840]

finally an update!

[@Goebia-jp2qq]

Great video!

[@Tgungen]

You have so many views on many videos but yet you receive only a couple of thousand subscribers. I think its because of the presentation in your videos. You should improve it by using a more unique coloured description panel (a darker tone usually works fine) and higher resolution maps where neutral countries are represented by more darkish colors rather than plain white (again, dark colours always make it more smooth™).

[@denizb.4142]

My father was born in August 1978. This conflict is even older as my father, unbelievable! Poor Afghanistan

[@AfG_313]

@asahi toki I wouldn’t say defeated

[@siavash2176]

@asahi toki LOL! what are you using dude? if you defeated them then why you are begging for food from them? when they were there you couldn't get out of your caves, when they left without any war you claimed victory! how you defeated them without shooting a single shot on them? you are a loser and people who have similar mindset like you. I'm a Persian and we will never submit ourselves to your stupid barbaric believes, we will fight to the end and you tribal stinky people doesn't deserve to be our country men.

[@siavash2176]

@No Commentary Gaming I'm not from Iran, half of current day Afghanistan is Persian.

[@siavash2176]

@No Commentary Gaming This is your problem, US or NATO never occupied Afghanistan, their presence in Afghanistan was based on united nation security council decision. Taliban was not fighting with them at all, 95% of time they were fighting against Afghanistan national military Wich was very popular among Afghan people. Taliban never won the war, everything was given to them and nobody fought with them at the end because everyone wanted to leave Afghanistan. Right now 99% of Afghans want to leave Afghanistan and they don't care anymore because this war never ends and this country never will be able to see peace , freedom, or prosperity. Now Taliban can't feed their own soliders leave a lone the normal people. Regarding your views on Islam, I'm quite on the opposite side of your views.

[@yastheaustralian8590]

Nice video brorher I wish you can put some Soviet recordings on the Afghan war too

[@LordShadow291]

I am from Pakistan and I have to say that Pakistan suffered a lot due to Afghanistan issue . By present day Pakistan have loss of estimated $156 billion of economy.

[@manny2640A]

Pakistan started the whole war what are u talking about?

[@ihavebeendaredhelp7786]

Ya when you arm terrorists and give them refugee that tends to happen

[@youisstupid2586]

We aren’t done with you just yet.

[@aliso5987]

Donk*y these were Afghans who invited USSR to b0mb their own country. You started this war and dragged pak in it as well.

[@danielw.8356]

"Time for American Troops to come home" also should have meant "Time for America to take all its billions of dollars of equipment and weapons too"

[@bobbyalvarez5659]

Blame sleepy Joe cuz most US military gear equipment and ammunition sent for the Afghan govt now in the hands of Taliban

[@jevgenijjankovskij8537]

@@bobbyalvarez5659 that was the plan :P

[@greywolf7577]

America was trying to give the Afghan government a chance to fight against the Taliban. Yes, the US wanted to pull its troops out of Afghanistan, but it didn't want the Taliban to take over. Unfortunately the government was corrupt and too many Afghans were fine with Taliban rule so the whole country collapsed.

[@user-cvbnm]

All this would never happened if the Afghani King was never disposed

[@TheGilliams]

Ehhh, idk. It might have delayed it, but there was already a lot of growing discontent in Afghanistan with the rise of Communist influence in the Army and the reforms of the King.

[@testiclegaming1250]

America saying the Soviet union's government is evil for invading a peaceful Islamic nation America in 2001 & 2003 : Invasion go brrr

[@ectscchannel2660]

@clouds which had no link to Afghanistan or iraq specially

[@omidf6161]

I'm Persian ( Iran ) and I very sad for Afghanistan 😭 ما یک ملت هستیم در دو کشور

[@ThamesMapping]

Amazing work!

[@osiris0183]

How is it possible to make these videos? how do you edit? where do they get the information? it's a very good job

[@Dingish]

wow, seeing that circle made me realize that our strategy in afganistan was literally the same as the soviets.

[@ab-wx3or]

Thanks, Jimmy Carter

[@hansstrik4704]

What a suffering for the people of Afghanistan, they deserved much better, let’s hope that the Taliban will treat them in a better way !

[@xCeL46]

@@rudrakshsharma2832 better than western imperalist dogs

[@vincentas1]

peace and security is what they have now.

[@jett_power]

Please note that this the Taliban we are taking about.

[@SoujiOkitaTwo]

Unfortunately the Taliban have been treating them horribly

[@darktr3c]

I'm half British half Slovak. I'm going be honest, what were our Governments even thinking. Furthermore, why didn't we take note from the Soviets. The Soviets spent half the time, also they focused on the main routes and strategic things. Not trying control the bloody thing. Compare the start of the Soviet Afghan war to the end right before the end of the withdrawal, roughly the same just minor changes. Compare the start of the US led NATO intervention to the end of the withdrawal. What the bloody hell went so wrong if the Soviets made it look like a cup of tea. Obviously it wasn't but the Soviets spent half the time, their strategy was different and their ambitions were reasonable to fullfill.

[@stedated]

The country has been at war for this long it's unbelieveable, I feel for everyone afghan.. they deserve better

[@rottenapple6531]

As a Pakistani nothing makes me more happier than seeing the purple (pakistani Taliban) get kicked out of our country. After years of sacrifices by our military, government, and intelligence we were finally able to fully defeat them in our lands.

[@shahzebali5390]

🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰💪💪

[@abovethelaw4417]

Funny how u paxtanis support taliban yet u don't want them in ur country. Buncha hypocrites

[@rottenapple6531]

@@abovethelaw4417 we dont support taliban, we just want 0 US occupation in afghanistan, if the afghan people are fine with the taliban then its all ok

[@dasbubba841]

@@abovethelaw4417 The Taliban used to be Pashtun nationalists. The Pakistani Taliban still are. The Pashtun people have been split in half by the Duran line, or the Afghan-Pakistan border.

[@TheEncrypto]

@@dasbubba841 Pashtuns are perfectly happy in Pakistan.

[@insurgent1485]

Well done

[@tarikrobot8568]

The Taliban lost every single major battle but they still won the war. Goddamn!

[@anakinskyogre1037]

I feel so bad for those that live in the country I’m sorry our military abandoned your country without a supporting government and the situation is horrible we should have left earlier but this was a mistake and I as a American am sorry for all those that suffered from the war

[@admraycountryballs]

it's really sad that all the effort they put into the War just for nothing

[@baha3alshamari152]

People in Afghanistan are happy that the foreign invaders left them alone Now Afghanistan is stable and the fighting is occurring in only 1% of it

[@velozio]

Great video

[@florinivan6907]

The taliban won for 3 reasons. One they were genuinely as stubborn as advertised. Two Pakistan and Iran covertly supported them so no matter how bad it got there was always a base of operations to maintain them. And three covid hit forcing an abrupt stop to any US support. Once the money dried up the troops melted away.

[@Moribus_Artibus]

Interesting how Obama held it pretty well until the summer of 2015. Does anybody know what happened?

[@TheGilliams]

The US and Nato downsized their troop presence, also the presidency of Hamid Karzai ended (though I don't know if that second part had anything to do with it)

[@nokiatunes7256]

Trump brought the troops home.

[@therealmrsteve]

​@@TheGilliamsprobably the American were tired of the war and didn't care much about it especially after Osama deaths

[@viotio7358]

This makes me realize the war was already lost in 2015

[@grancava]

Hay que admitir algo aguantar 20 años de guerra contra varias de las mayores potencias del mundo es de admirar... Además de que en cuanto se fueron los yankies no tardaron ni un par de meses en apoderarse de todo Afganistán... No apoyo su ideología pero hay que recalcar la persistencia de esa gente.

[@nickdayanpalominopareja1191]

Como dicen: "un enemigo que no tiene miedo a la muerte es el más peligroso de todo el planeta"

[@mohammadullahnasrat8022]

I'm an Afghan and I can see how this data have been exaggerated! Taliban captured Kundoz in 2015 and Panjshir is now ruled entirely by Taliban. All those lives was not worth it!!!

[@dmitrychernivetsky5876]

I gotta say i was rooting for Sharan. It held out for so long, i remember some great people there when i was in in 2013. Was a mechanic, fixed one fella's bicycle once, he brought me some bread the next day. I hope he is ok still.

[@mujahid-9630]

@@dmitrychernivetsky5876 sharana was close to zurmat which had a massive taliban influence. They easily took sharana

[@thegreatest1176]

yeah they did capture kundaz and its shows on the map. And what do you mean all those lives lost??

[@akse5914]

I remembered the Islamic party in Algeria during the black decade, which tried unsuccessfully to take power, leaving more than 200,000 victims 😞

[@usaygreed763]

Ur a legend sir!

[@Strix2031]

Its kinda amazing that the US left the democratic forces witjin afghsnistan in a worse place than in the early 2000's they completely delegitimized the democratic forces,gave over highly effective equipment to the Taliban and led to a mass withdraw of people who couldve mounted a resistance.

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

A country stuck in the 19th century. Perhaps in some way the 17th.. definitely in the leadership's mindset

[@xCeL46]

at least no longer an imperialist puppet of the usa

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

@@xCeL46 never were, so that makes no sense. But a puppet of Islamic fascists, fueled by heroin and murder

[@mortenfrosthansen84]

@@xCeL46 hopefully they'll fall into their old ways and start killing each other again.. sadly under the suffering of everyone around them. What a ridiculous and absurd regime.. and to call themselves righteous chosen and in the name of some thought up godly idea. Only thing that saved them, was how the allied coalition is conducting under laws and rules. If it was old times, they wouldn't be able to hide under their rocks, but be slain as they deserve for their crimes

[@zoybean]

@@mortenfrosthansen84 "Allies" ignored the rules and killed innumerable civilians with drones. Loser NATO

[@nokiatunes7256]

@@xCeL46 Being a USA puppet would be way better than living in an Islamic hellhole where north korea looks like paradise.

[@casuallavaring]

It really says something that Taliban rule is the first time there’s been peace in Afghanistan in 40 years.

[@abovethelaw4417]

What a stupid fcuk u r. The taliban are terrorists who didn't bring any peace at all

[@dasbubba841]

Peace? There will never be peace in Afghanistan. The place is still on the verge of civil war.

[@Prodelem]

Only reason their is peace is because their is fear. Wanna keep your head on your shoulders? Do as the Taliban say.

[@casuallavaring]

@@Prodelem I wasn’t implying the Taliban are good.

[@enderreaper1482]

@@Prodelem still better than war

[@ShashotoANur]

Someday, hopefully soon, this struggle of Afghans will end. And Afghanistan will stand as a strong, independent, sovereign natio, free of occupation and terrorism.

[@Quentin-vi4zi]

Wasn’t the pansheer resistance defeated too?

[@yousafdaudzai3078]

It has been defeated Because of the same factors Tajiks named it Pashtun-Tajik war and thus Panjsher Felled to the Taliban

[@farhansiddiqui1280]

Yep, they fell within a week.

[@baha3alshamari152]

There's some fighters in some remote mountains but that's it

[@Strix2031]

The government instantly fell when the US pulled support lmao

[@HUNVilly]

Great job, ,man!

[@akse5914]

I remembered the Islamic party in Algeria during the black decade, which tried unsuccessfully to take power, leaving more than 200,000 victims

[@heywoodyablom]

Sad to see that so much effort and ressources have been spent just to be annihilated by one mans' decision

[@Kabutoes]

I kinda dont understand how the soviets only controlled roads as opposed to the US and ISAF that controlled whole provinces

[@ok1220lol]

I think soviet goal was to make a puppet government

[@sliftyy]

important to note that afghanistan is NOT a small country, it's larger than france

[@angryskimaskman3332]

Wow you can notice that the circle during the Soviet Afghan war that is under Soviet control is the main highway that runs across the country.

[@MrKeiKuro]

I love how the US government whining when Soviet invasion on Afghanistan....in which they did the same after that

[@thecommunistdoggo1008]

The US had s much better casus belli. They're not really comparable, one went in without UN approval purely for imperialistic purposes whereas the other went in to neutralize a threat to global security

[@MrKeiKuro]

@@thecommunistdoggo1008 global threat? What a joke. If the US really want to control a real global threat, they shud invade mexico/colombia/ cartel drug nation. Death toll cause by drug a way higher than 9/11. Even till this day the number are still rising all over the world including the US herself.

[@thecommunistdoggo1008]

@@MrKeiKuro You do know terrorism is more than just 9/11 right? You do know terrorists kill innocent people daily in the middle east. The Taliban were executing girls for going to school! Not to mention the contemporary crimes against humanity. Nah nah the drug war isn't on the same level. Not counting overdoses the death toll for the drug war is undeniably smaller

[@MrKeiKuro]

@@thecommunistdoggo1008 like the cartel never kill kid/child/teen simply the family work with other cartel family. Also terrorist like ISIS were not gonna exist if Iraq were not invade or 'someone' train them at first place.

[@thecommunistdoggo1008]

@@MrKeiKuro It was actually the 1989 invasion of Afghanistan that resulted in terror groups, if you want to be even more specific (in snowballing effects) it goes wayyy back to a response to the Crusades and eventually Ottoman Jihads against the west depending on how you define terrorism. Also the cartels do kill people yes, but it's no where near the same scale. It's like comparing the American manifest destiny against natives to the Holocaust. The scale is wayyy different. Cartels try not to kill innocent people it's simply bad for business. About 400,000 people were murdered in Mexico from 2006-2021 whereas the war on terror saw 600,000 in Iraq alone (with some estimates putting it up to one million dead). Then there's Hamas, Islamic insurgents in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Russia (Chechnya), and Europe. These groups have existed for decades (especially with their hatred of Israel) with some from the 70s and 80s. But the modern terrorist was created post '89. But just how bad it is depends on what you define as a terrorist, were the Mujahedeen terrorists? The Iranian rebels? Chechnyians? You get the point

[@dodolulupepe]

Great!

[@user-yi1zy9st2c]

7:01 Taliban: it's a free real estate! and American advanced weapons for bonus!

[@braxtonjones6163]

Yeah they won’t be able to maintain the weapons it’ll be scrap in a couple of years.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@braxtonjones6163 Eh, they can always just sell it off to the highest bidder. Pretty sure China would love the opportunity to reverse engineer a tonne of US equipment.

[@braxtonjones6163]

@No Commentary Gaming It’ll become inoperable after awhile and America doesn’t plan on working with or helping those terrorists. China itself doesn’t want to work with them but only because they want to undermine U.S hegemony in Asia. It’s only Pakistan begging countries to recognize their installed government.

[@Iybraesil]

@@ikengaspirit3063 Why would they when they hate China?

[@dasbubba841]

@@ikengaspirit3063 Not really. Most of that equipment isn't anything fancy or really high-tech. The US didn't give the best of it's stuff to an unstable and corrupt nation like Afghanistan.