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There are too many of these people on lemmy (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

i mean afghani society was better off before the us swooped in to destroy it after the soviet era

can't have all that progress around that much oil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i mean afghani society was better off before the us swooped in to destroy it after the soviet era

can’t have all that progress around that much oil

The US swooped in to destroy Afghanistan after the Soviet era.

Afghanistan having strategic value because of oil.

Jesus Christ.

And people wonder why I don't treat tankie history takes seriously.

EDIT: No, no, please, downvoters, inform me as to the history of Afghanistan's booming oil industry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, no, please, downvoters, inform me as to the history of Afghanistan’s booming oil industry.

No one said it was due to a booming oil industry, but it was because of oil, I'm not sure how you're not aware of this.

Reporting at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.terrorism11

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Huh, it's almost like "BUT MUH OIL" has been an easy refrain of people with a simplified view of world politics for decades now, even when it's not actually relevant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The article doesn’t really dismiss the argument even if the initial paragraphs make it seem like it, it just concludes that it seems unlikely to reach a point where the US could leverage the influence on a future local government, which is true but does not exclude/invalidate the previous proposition

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

oh yeah the us destroyed the middle east and former socialist countries for democracy, my bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So you’re doubling down on oil in Afghanistan?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

reread the post you are responding to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No u

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, how else could the Taliban have made so much societal progress?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

those terrorist organizations are usually funded by the us....