Russian president acknowledges Afghanistan faces issues that require constant attention from international community
  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3116·
    5 months ago

    It sounds wacky if you’re on a mostly American or corporate media diet these last twenty years, but the Taliban has been fighting terrorists in their area of late. The situation in the middle east has failed to be as simple as GW Bush would have had us believe.

    I don’t support them obviously, but I at least recognize that this isn’t really as zany and ironic as a typical “not the Onion” headline.

    • kbin_space_program@kbin.run
      373·
      5 months ago

      Who the Taliban call “terrorists”

      1. Anyone associated with the previous democratic government.
      2. Women.
      3. Anyone with a half decent education.
      4. Regional warlords that were(are?) bankrolled by the US and previously stabilized the country, protecting it from foreign interests like the Taliban.
    • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      Sure, terrorists can fight other terrorists. It doesn’t make either flavor any better

    • TranquilTurbulenceEnglish
      72·
      5 months ago

      Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

      Is it because one terrorist group has been slaughtering all the other terrorists? Maybe that makes them ok in Putin’s eyes?

      • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
        121·
        5 months ago

        https://youtu.be/WmKireMHUfM

        TL;DW: Now that the Taliban actually has the responsibility of holding a country together, they’re no longer jihadist enough to satisfy the bloodlust of the other terrorist groups in the area, so they’re now being attacked as traitors to the cause. Even worse for the people of the nation, these groups have begun attacking other nations like Russia to force another incursion into Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and leave a power vacuum so the more extreme groups can take over.