This post is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of afghanistan.
I think we should just dedicate it to the gallant people of Afghanistan tbh
Keep reaching for that rainbow
Yeah, plenty of people have misconception that it was just the Taliban who the US funded. The US funded everyone who were against USSR. The mujahideen was a catch-all term of Afghans who fought against the Soviets.
Even in Russia people often don't know this.
They also don't know that despite catch-alls and such, usually the word (I know it's pretty generic in Arabic) was used for a leftist-Islamist hybrid typical for that time and not typical now (the Islamic Republic of Iran has some remnants of that ideology). And before that there was a socialist dictatorship. And before it a British-aligned monarchy.
Yet people trained by USSR for police and military work are still employed by Taliban in positions requiring qualifications, or so I've been recently told. Will be interesting to see what happens when they get too old. Will such new states disassemble into tribal zones or will they manage to create their own institutions at least for training people capable of maintaining a basic military organization.
Get this shitposter a NCD hat!
I wonder if there's a term for these kind of 'unintended' consequences to reckless foreign subterfuge
Was it too difficult for you to read the meme? Does it need to be rephrased in simpler terms for you to understand?
I can't say for sure but I think you've mistaken me for someone else.
So, it's still fallout from that.
How is it fallout from that?
Because it's formed from a splinter group of the previously installed government?
😄 lol I think I saw the comment that fueled this post
I'd still say it's related
The sons of liberty didn't set up America but they certainly played a huge role.
And likely some people were involved with both.
The Sons Of Liberty predated the American Revolutionaries, the Taliban postdates the entire Soviet-Afghan War.
The Sons Of Liberty didn't fight a literal fucking civil war against the successful American Revolutionaries.
Comparisons aren't exact matches but the relationship still stands. Individuals are tied to both, ideology they both share exists.
You're trying to paint them as two totally different things and they're not. You're comparing apples and pears
That’s not quite the case. The mujahideen did splinter and civil war broke out, then the Taliban arose from the US+Pakistani training program from the Cold War with Saudi funding and steamrolled the factions taking over.
This post is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of afghanistan.
I think we should just dedicate it to the gallant people of Afghanistan tbh
Keep reaching for that rainbow