• Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Communism in Afghanistan fell apart and contributed to the death of the USSR.

    They had a strong anti-religious stance, but they got wrecked by the Taliban.

    i blame Carter and the bleeder faction. if the US had been prevented from arming them there would have been no need for the socialist government to invoke their defense pact and there would have been no soviet war because there would have been no war.

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      4 days ago

      Blaming the imperialist is an interesting position.

      In order to use that be our model of understanding continuing forward, we would have to presume that there is no imperialist state when we operate in MENA in the future.

      This may be a valid track, only if the US falls and another colonial power doesn’t come to fruition.

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        4 days ago

        it’s wrong to boil these things down to single axes but some factors are necessary foundations of events. I don’t think we can depend on there being no imperialist state but the current US or a collapsed US is significantly less effective than it has been in the past.

        and i use “we” loosely as fuck here because i can only project power to the neighbors’ property lines.