THREAD: During the first 75 years of the 20th century, 🇦🇫#Afghanistan experienced less war and political unrest than almost every country in the West, including eg. 🇳🇴Norway, 🇧🇪Belgium, and 🇫🇮Finland. 1/🧵

The 🇺🇸United States' decades of deep and loyal support for 🇵🇰 Pakistan while Pakistan kept funding, arming, training, and hiding America's enemies and engineering the Taliban's comeback in 🇦🇫Afghanistan must be one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. The mind boggles.

🇦🇫 The idea that the Afghan Republic was always doomed is not an "uncomfortable truth", but a self-soothing cop-out designed to rid ourselves of responsibility for the outcome. The reality is, the Taliban won and the Republic fell because we chose to let it (or make it) happen.

🇦🇫 THREAD: Every single Afghan frontline soldier or officer I have spoken to has told me they were desperately short of ammunition, fuel, water, food, and other supplies during the decisive fighting in 2021. Why? Was choking off the Afghan forces also part of the Doha deal? 1/🧵

🇦🇫 THREAD: More than anyone else, the Taliban caused the War in Afghanistan to continued for 20 years after 9/11. After 2001, like now, the US government was desperate to leave Afghanistan behind and forget about it. And they would have if the Taliban not re-started the War. 1/6

From 2014 to 2021, 127 US and coalition troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. During the same period, more than 50.000 Afghan soldiers died too, fighting the same enemy as us. And yet, feckless charlatans claim the Afghans weren't willing to fight for their country. 1/🧵

- Afghanistan got a democratic constitution in *1964* - Afghan Women got the right to vote before women in Switzerland - The legends about the first Afghan King say that he was *elected* And yet I keep hearing democracy in Afghanistan was "imposed" by the West after 2001. 1/🧵

🇦🇫The West was completely right -both morally and strategically- to intervene in Afghanistan in 2001, helping the Afghans take their country back from the Taliban What we deserve to be condemned for is abandoning the country again and betraying our allies when we left in 2021.

The last time the West thought it was time to 'set our differences aside' and do cool deals with the Taliban, it lead to: - The collapse of the Afghan Republic - The betrayal of the West's staunchest allies in the Muslim world - The reintroduction of gender apartheid for 20

Many in the West have become so pathologically pacifistic that they truly believe military means are always futile and counterproductive - even when fighting to defend against those who want to take away everything they believe in. They have short memories. 1/2

Pakistan is like a man setting fire to his entire neighborhood and then expecting pity when his own house burns down too (and then blames India).

The Buddhas weren’t destroyed for Islam - they were destroyed for Pakistan’s ISI. You erased history to please your masters in Rawalpindi.

The Taliban hate culture, and are doing everything they can to destroy it.

Exactly right - russia's goal was always and still is the full restoration of its empire of tyranny and death. And make no mistake: that dark ambition does not end on the border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts.

I’m from Donbas. I remember Ukrainian songs in school. I remember books, not bunkers. Don’t tell me we were “always russian.” I was there. We lived. Then russians invaded.

The level of delusional retardation from absolute fuckwits like mannarino is so astonishing it borders on being an achievement in itself. These are the kind of people who would be blaming Poland for the outbreak of World War 2.

What are you willing to part with, America?

The best protection against world war 3 kicking off in Asia is defeating *ussia and kicking it out of Ukraine.

Now as before, truth is a crime in *ussia.

While pitiful hordes of very online man-boys think complaining about feminism on twitter will one day turn them into real men, this Ukrainian farmer is casually shooting down *ussian FPV drones with his shotgun in order to harvest his watermelons. Reflect on that, kids.