«¿Cuántas naciones ha bombardeado USA desde 2001?» (Infografía: Al Jazeera)
Wew lad this is some tankie shit. The US is fucked, but this is just a lol. The US destabilized yemen 🤣
Teaching liberals the word “tankie” was a mistake…
Listen, I’m no tankie but the thought that blowing up shit in a country wouldn’t destabilize that country is pretty laughable.
Considering what American became after 9/11, you’d think you’d have learned by now?
Listen, I’m no tankie but the thought that blowing up shit in a country wouldn’t destabilize that country is pretty laughable.
And if shit is already blowing up?
What is ‘destabilizing’ about supporting the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, for example? Walk me through it. I’m apparently a moron.
I guess the destabilising bit there would be supporting the Taliban in the first place.
The Taliban that fought the Mujahideen we supported in the 80s? The Taliban that wasn’t even formed until after US interest in Afghanistan was long-over? The Taliban that started a literal civil war against the Mujahideen? Those Taliban?
The Taliban was a part of the Mujahideen.
The Taliban that wasn’t even formed until after US interest in Afghanistan was long-over?
I know the US govt is incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions, but you can try to do better.
The Taliban was a part of the Mujahideen.
Jesus fucking Christ.
The Taliban that was formed primary out of Pashtun religious students from Pakistan who were largely too young to have participated in the anti-Soviet Mujahideen? The Taliban that was formed in 1994? Half a decade after the Soviet invasion was over?
I know the US govt is incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions, but you can try to do better.
Tell me more about how the Taliban are consequences of not being genocided by the Soviets.
Americans rarely know the history of what they’re fucking talking about, but you can do better than most of my countrymen.
Or maybe you can’t, and this is the best you’ll ever do.
Do you think the Taliban ‘fell out of a coconut tree’, as one of your politicians used to say? It is a successor to the Hezbi Islami, Haraqat Inqilab Islami and other factions of the Mujahideen. These were funded and armed by the US to destabilise the Soviets, with zero thought going into what would happen if a country’s government is weakened and religious zealots let loose with weapons and cash. (This is not to absolve Pakistan’s ISI, by the way. They wanted a weak and divided Afghanistan, and have helped various shady groups over the years.)
