Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby'
Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby'
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Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby'
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The Taliban are the worst, It was a real shame that afghanis caved so quickly to them.
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People get blinded by religious extremism. Those that don't generally just want to live in peace and don't want to fight wars to maintain a fragile government that wasn't even that great to begin with.
We all like to think of ourselves as brave souls who would put down our lives for our ideals but at the end of the day most of us will not actually stand up when the time comes to it.
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Afghanistan simply did not have the national consciousness necessary for Afghans to come together in opposition to the Taliban, which was united on ideological/religious grounds.
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Which is a shame because they seemed like they were on a trajectory to become a modern country in the 70's. Today, they are positively mediaeval. It seems like religion has ruined the region.
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Sadly, the Taliban isn't even the worst. They're now fighting insurgents from ISIS-K, which is an even more violent and oppressive terrorist group.
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It was the Taliban or pedo rapist warlords instated by the US
https://youtu.be/Ja5Q75hf6QI?t=51m9s
The longer you watch the worse it gets.
"Try finding me a police commander that doesn't rape little boys" is an actual quote from the American installed military police.
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Watching the Taliban try and be a functioning government, and getting chewed out by both their own people and the international community, has been fascinating to watch.
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its working as intended. Warlords rich now
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And for all the northern Brits in here: By „tea“ she doesn’t mean „dinner“.
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Alright hen, come in. Ye'll have had yer tea?
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"I asked one Taliban brother, what do I feed my children if I don't earn? He said give them poison but don't come outside your home," she says. "Two times the Taliban government gave me some money, but it is nowhere close to enough."
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That part stuck with me. The Taliban would rather children die en-mass then women sell knickknacks on a street corner.
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You can accuse the Taliban of a lot of things, but not that they aren’t thinking practically.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Or I soak bread in tea and then feed it to her," Sohaila Niyazi says, sitting on the floor of her mud brick home up a hill in eastern Kabul.
The tea that Sohaila refers to is what's traditionally drunk in Afghanistan, made with green leaves and hot water, without any milk or sugar.
Doctors have told us that while it's less harmful than the tranquilisers and anti-depressants we have found being given by some Afghan parents to their hungry children, in higher doses the medicine can cause respiratory distress.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was paying the salaries of health workers, and funding medicines and food at more than 30 hospitals - an emergency stopgap measure implemented following the regime change in 2021.
They have all had their pay cut by half," Dr Mohammad Iqbal Sadiq, the Taliban-appointed medical director of the hospital, tells us.
Did he recognise that Taliban policies were a part of the problem too; that donors didn't want to give money to a country where the government had imposed stringent restrictions on women?
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Mothers don't raise your son's to follow Allah.
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Unfortunately Islam has impoverished the Arabic, Northern African and Central Asian nations for 1000 years, and the way it's going it's gonna impoverish them for the next 1000 years too.
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Afghanistan has always been one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Taliban-mandated stop in opium production collapsed their economy further. This is the aftermath of ceasing opium production more than anything else.
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https://www.voanews.com/a/ready-explaining-us-sanctions-against-taliban-/6427771.html
America fucks up the entire country
Makes it dependant on drug farming
Still gets owned
Steals 7 billon dollars from the government when they leave
Sanctions the economy and prevents international trade
Prevents humanitarian aid from entering for a while
Wowe le non democracy country is poor. so inferior �*
30 years ago Socialists were to blame for these kinds of American created problems in south America. Now they dunk on Afghanistan and proceed to blame the Taliban for it.
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lmao
Imagine simping for the Taliban because international politics is a religion to you, and America is the Great Satan.
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Yeah America (specifically America) colonizing the country for 20 years and running it into the ground is definitely irrelevant here.
Imagine dunking on them when 90% of the shit in this article is problems America created themselves.
I don't agree with them closing school for women and many other things, but the economic situation and starvation is 100% a result of American imperialism.
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Imagine being so dense that you'd simp for the fucking Taliban. At least they had something like a secular state and law in place during their occupation. Making it possible for women to attend universities or minorities to simply exist.
The fact that the occupiers didn't manage to solve every single problem in this war torn and split up country with no common ground doesn't mean it wasn't a net positive. Which it 100% was for everyone but the Taliban.
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