@Br0m3x yikes. Sad to see that wealth will go to the Taliban.
@resist1984 who should benefit from it?
@Br0m3x a society that's not under an oppressive regime
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They were under US occupation almost 20 years. I didn't notice that their puppet army or ordinary people tried to stop Talibs. It is weird, isn't it?
Currently there are a few countries which can be considered as non-oppresive.
@Br0m3x I don't think US “occupation” is an accurate term. If it were an occupation the governance would have come directly from the US gov., not democratically elected President Hamid Karzai, his administration, his democratically elected successors, & the democratically elected parliament. Taliban also had internal resistence as the US withdrew but they were weak in comparison.
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Who said the west had no influence? You seem to have misunderstood what I said.
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus the elected gov was dependant on the US for security, so of course the US had influence. But the US was not the government of afghanistan and therefore it's incorrect to call it an “occupation”.
Not calling it an occuptation because they installed a puppet leader is like not calling it rape because they wore a condom
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Calling it an “occupation” is like calling it rape because you didn't like the sex that you consented to.
@resist1984
USA invaded Afghanistan.
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus that's true, but that does make it accurate to say there was a 20-year occupation. It was a 1 year occupation until the election was held.
@Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus you might be more convincing if you could list specific US mandates/demands in the ~19 years that followed the election that were unrelated to security. Did the US collect tax from Afghans? Did they regulate healthcare, education, banking, environmental protections, etc? Did the US stand in the way of Karsai and his successors on governance without security relevance?
@Gayniggeranus @Br0m3x Or did the US do anything that notably breached their agreement with Karsai or his successors?
@resist1984 @Br0m3x @Gayniggeranus
Yeah, and the Vichy government was completely independent of the Nazi troops based in France to protect against allied invasion. The only directives issued by the German Government were to protect the security of the French people against rebel forces and foreign armies.
I think you missed the point. Karzai did everything the US wanted him to do, and then Obama threw his ass out in favor of his own puppet. The afghans wanted taliban 20 years ago, and they want taliban now.
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Please:)))))
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