Afghanistan Thread | Taliban Rule

[Json]

So what is the Taliban going to do about Covid?

 

[Techniec]

@Techniec

Do you have a sense of whether the current Taliban force is made up of mostly Afghans, or foreign fighters?

The Taliban consist of local Afghans, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Pakistani Pashtuns and foreign Islamic militants

Only the first would have any remote sense of Afghanness and even that would be marginal. These people are a mix of brainwashed Cannon fodder, die hard ideologies, criminals slash drug traffickers, occasional tribal elder whose riding because the tribe he beefs with rides with the Govt, opportunistic everyday Joe Shmoes and straight foreign intelligence (Pakistani, Iranian to a lesser degree) stooges

 

[Techniec]

All the billions we spent on the Afghan armed forces since 2001 and they fold like a tent to the Taliban. Biden did the right thing.

Half that shyt went to the Taliban

 

[FAH1223]

Only two cities left Kabul and Mazar-E-Sharif

Wonder if President is going to flee the country.

 

[thatrapsfan]

I was wondering the same thing, what would happen if AMISOM left. Difference in Somalia is significant parts of country got pretty entrenched regional rule, so don’t think we’d see a total collapse but Mogadishu would be at risk.

 

[Liu Kang]

The Taliban consist of local Afghans, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Pakistani Pashtuns and foreign Islamic militants

Only the first would have any remote sense of Afghanness and even that would be marginal. These people are a mix of brainwashed Cannon fodder, die hard ideologies, criminals slash drug traffickers, occasional tribal elder whose riding because the tribe he beefs with rides with the Govt, opportunistic everyday Joe Shmoes and straight foreign intelligence (Pakistani, Iranian to a lesser degree) stooges

How come the Taliban managed to get a hold of the North which they never ruled ? Did they convert some Uzbeks or Tadjiks ?

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Techniec]

Bruh the same shyts gonna happen there

 

[Techniec]

How come the Taliban managed to get a hold of the North which they never ruled ? Did they convert some Uzbeks or Tadjiks ?

Three reasons (no order)

1) Northern Warlords got rich the last two decades. They're soft as fukk, and an entirely new generation is not really riding for these establishment leaders (remnants from the Jihad) like that

2)Talibs recruited non Pashtuns, and they use Central Asian militants in the North. They simultaneously entrenched themselves in the small Pashtun communities of the North while having their allies work the Tajiks and Uzbeks. They also may have gained some brownie points off a variety of little things that give them appeal (religious appeal, a perception they're less corrupt etc)

3) A not so insignificant amount of Afghans are cutting deals with the Taliban. This cannot be overemphasized. Some of it is reading the tea leaves, but some of it is brutal Afghan politics. Ghanis opponents are cutting deals to bring down this govt, force Ghanis resignation, and this will lead to the Taliban negotiating directly with real Afghan stakeholders (Jihadi and Ethnic leaders), those dudes want this western bullshyt out just as much as the Taliban. The only issue is that this approach is predicated on the intl community stopping a complete takeover of the country by the Taliban (or maybe they have such an understanding with the Taliban)

 

[FAH1223]

Bruh the same shyts gonna happen there

My pops who’s an engineer and been doing different projects in Somalia has been back in the states all spring and summer. Before he came back, he was offered $3M to design and build military base for the govt

He didn’t have to think twice, he said hell no. That money ain’t worth the Shabab target

 

[Skooby]

 

[TheAnointedOne]

The US Military taught those Afghan soldiers how to fight and they still lose to the Taliban so quickly?

 

[Kingcobrakai]

 

[Shogun]

The US Military taught those Afghan soldiers how to fight and they still lose to the Taliban so quickly?

We didn't teach them anything..

 

[King Static X]

China's government is absolutely fukking pathetic and demonic.