• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    https://www.voanews.com/a/ready-explaining-us-sanctions-against-taliban-/6427771.html

    America fucks up the entire country

    Installs pedo warlord government

    Makes it dependant on drug farming

    Still gets owned

    Steals 7 billon dollars from the government when they leave

    Sanctions the economy and prevents international trade

    Prevents humanitarian aid from entering for a while

    Wowe le non democracy country is poor. so inferior 😎

    30 years ago Socialists were to blame for these kinds of American created problems in south America. Now they dunk on Afghanistan and proceed to blame the Taliban for it.

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      lmao

      Imagine simping for the Taliban because international politics is a religion to you, and America is the Great Satan.

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        Yeah America (specifically America) colonizing the country for 20 years and running it into the ground is definitely irrelevant here.

        Imagine dunking on them when 90% of the shit in this article is problems America created themselves.

        I don’t agree with them closing school for women and many other things, but the economic situation and starvation is 100% a result of American imperialism.

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          Yes, I am definitely sure it was all Amerikkka’s fault, Afghanistan definitely hasn’t always been a dirt poor country for the past 200 years and also definitely didn’t spent most of the 70s and all of the 80s and 90s locked in brutal civil wars, and definitely has a united national culture that made running a functional national government easy.

          Also I love the part where we were colonizing Afghanistan and dictating their internal policies. God, it’s so great that we thought Islam was so amazing that we made it a crime to apostatize from it. Wait, or are we supposed to be the Christian Crusaders imposing our faith on Muslim countries? I can never keep all the things we’re accused of doing straight.

          If you think the economic situation in Afghanistan is due to the US… well, that’s about the understanding of Afghanistan’s historical and present circumstances I expect from someone who treats international politics like a religion and says “Well, I don’t agree with the Taliban closing schools for women and ‘other things’, BUT… have you considered, America bad?”

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          11 months ago

          You use the words ‘colonialism’ and ‘imperialism’ but don’t seem to know what they mean.

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            Colonialism is just the step beyond imperialism. America does imperialism all over the world but doesn’t colonize everything.

            America setting up tonnes of military bases, killing the government and then replacing and dictating the entire governance with their own peons means that it colonized Afghanistan, it didn’t just influence it.

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              America setting up tonnes of military bases, killing the government and then replacing and dictating the entire governance with their own peons means that it colonized Afghanistan, it didn’t just influence it.

              lmao

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      Imagine being so dense that you’d simp for the fucking Taliban. At least they had something like a secular state and law in place during their occupation. Making it possible for women to attend universities or minorities to simply exist.

      The fact that the occupiers didn’t manage to solve every single problem in this war torn and split up country with no common ground doesn’t mean it wasn’t a net positive. Which it 100% was for everyone but the Taliban.

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        Uhuh. I guess the current American economy is also 100% Biden’s fault and has nothing do with Trumps policies before it. Because Biden is in charge now babehhh. Forget the past it never happened not relevant!

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          If that is the best argument you can come up with you should probably take a look at your stance