• jumjummy@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Interesting how you attribute no agency to the locals in “once the Taliban are back”. Implying it’s all NATO’s fault and somehow assigning no blame to the locals who just allowed it all to come back with no resistance.

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      9 hours ago

      The locals were stuck between a corrupt government supported by an occupying power and the Taliban. Elections were stolen, violence endemic, and poverty widespread. And now, EU is willing to work with the Taliban as it does with countless authoritarian regimes to prevent illegal immigration. They want to empower the captors and legitimize a new dictatorship.