boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTwo years under Taliban rule in Afghanistan: ‘I never thought the world would forget about us so quickly’english.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square304fedilinkarrow-up1569arrow-down126
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minus-squarelingh0e@lemmy.filmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agoDude, you should probably read up on the history of Afghanistan before you start saying “America is to blame”. I mean, yeah… America IS to blame… among others. And it goes back WAY further than 20 some odd years.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agoImportant reminder that the USA financed the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war. See Operation Cyclone.
minus-squareseejur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year agoImportant reminder that in that war, Russia was yet again the invader
Dude, you should probably read up on the history of Afghanistan before you start saying “America is to blame”.
I mean, yeah… America IS to blame… among others. And it goes back WAY further than 20 some odd years.
Important reminder that the USA financed the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war. See Operation Cyclone.
Hell, see Rambo 3.
Important reminder that in that war, Russia was yet again the invader