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Post by Tero » Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:26 am

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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by JimC » Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:40 am

Part of the impetus China's gleeful embrace of the Taliban (which might come back to bite them in the bum one day) is the sheer joy of seeing a rival empire, once mighty and now slowly decaying, suffer yet another defeat...
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Aug 23, 2021 3:32 am

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..is the sheer joy of seeing a rival empire, once mighty and now slowly decaying, suffer yet another defeat...
Sorry, I thought you were talking about Scot Dutchy there..
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Part of the impetus China's gleeful embrace of the Taliban (which might come back to bite them in the bum one day) is the sheer joy of seeing a rival empire, once mighty and now slowly decaying, suffer yet another defeat...
Hmmm, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim regime in control of a country bordering their Xinjiang province, where they have a disaffected Sunni Muslim minority in the Uyghurs.

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Post by JimC » Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:17 am

As I said, it might yet bite them on the bum. However, for the moment, the Taliban will be missing the stream of western aid; China may provide some, effectively a bribe for not agitating their Uighars...
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Well they should hate the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs.
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It will be a pragmatic relationship of surface amity (for a while) hiding serious dislike beneath...
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Do religious fundies do pragmatism? I'm not so sure.
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pErvinalia wrote:
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Do religious fundies do pragmatism? I'm not so sure.
The Mujahideen happily accepted a billion or more bucks worth of armaments and other military aid from the US in the 1980s. Maybe their descendants are hoping for more of the same from the PRC.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Aug 23, 2021 7:32 am

Yeah, in the 80s they even made a James Bond about how noble and righteous the Afghan rebels' cause was.
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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:49 pm

What agreement did Trump make with the taliban?
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Post by JimC » Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:11 pm

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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:17 pm

At all cost.
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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by Tero » Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:00 am

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Re: Afghanistan. It's fucked

Post by JimC » Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:37 am

But think of all the interesting Afghani restaurants that would open!
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