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[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Turns out wars are won by the people who would really rather not be at war

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Mmh..Afghans see war as a social event and that seems to work for them.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago

Afghans have had people fucking their shit up for like 4 generations now .. they don't really know anything else, pretty sure they were relatively normal prior to the US and USSR fuckery.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

It's been a battle ground as long as empires have existed

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

I mean, you could say the same thing about Europe .. but the current state of things in Afghanistan is definitely a result of the last 50 odd years of global super powers meddling.

[-] Tango@piefed.ca 8 points 2 months ago

No, no, you don't understand. Afghanistan has been the place where external empires compete with each other for much longer than that. Nobody ever really succeeds there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Me too. You can add the islamist fuckery to your list.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Wasn't the islamist fuckery a result of CIA fuckery attempting to quash a moderate socialist government?

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This is right. It's impossible to say how much harm this organization has done to people over the world.

[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

CIA funded islamists but did not create them. They gained broad popular support after Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when initial Afghani communist government imploded and USSR took control and installed their own puppet.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Indonesia was a bloodbath helped along by the CIA and the British

what a fucking mess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1

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