Those who left and those who could not flee speak of a country in ruins and decry the world’s apathy towards the humanitarian crisis and the lack of rights, mainly for women, which a UN report describes as ‘gender apartheid’
  • werty@lemmy.mlEnglish
    45·
    11 months ago

    Soviet (mission accomplished) : 3 years against US + China and muslim world backing after USSR dissolved… US (disorganised retreat) : 3 days with no backer…

    Modern afganistant still rely on soviet infrastructure…

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        You talking about the Taliban? Think they were called the Mujahedeen back then tho.

        That’s where they got their US training, Osama Bin Laden was in newspapers all over the US and Afghanistan and hailed as a “freedom fighter” and equated to the founding fathers…

        We didn’t just train his group, we turned him into a folk hero over there. Then we killed him and turned him into a martyr, and dumped his body in the ocean so there’s not even hard proof he’s dead.

        If the goal was a decades long plan to invent an inspiring legend for them to fight against invaders, I don’t think we could have done better if we tried.

      • werty@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        Same way I don’t speak about religious fruitcake fighting secularism, slaver fighting abolistionist, genocider fighting humanity, etc.