Afghanistan. It's fucked

[JimC]

This report is directly relevant to the thread title:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-03/ ... /100430828

As the Taliban work to form government in Afghanistan, there have been new warnings that the war-torn country's aid-dependent economy is on the verge of collapse following the rapid withdrawal of US troops.

A report from Fitch Solutions, part of global credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings, paints a dire picture of Afghanistan's economy.

And it warns the situation will be made worse if Western nations and international financial organisations withhold or withdraw foreign aid.

This week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned a humanitarian crisis was looming in Afghanistan as fuel, food and medicines run out and half the population lives in poverty.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have cut off finance, as the international community decides whether to recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government of the country.

There are fears the Taliban will repeat its previous brutal rule, which saw public executions, stoning to death for adultery, amputations for stealing, and women and girls being banned from work and school.

[Scot Dutchy]

It was under American protection that the worst corruption took place. The situation is purely thanks to them.

[laklak]

Well, they're fucked again, then, because it's political suicide to send foreign aid to the Taliban.

[JimC]

Well, they're fucked again, then, because it's political suicide to send foreign aid to the Taliban.

For the west, maybe. For China? They may decide that some aid and investment can bribe the Taliban, for a while, not to assist the Uighars...

[rainbow]

Well, they're fucked again, then, because it's political suicide to send foreign aid to the Taliban.

For the west, maybe. For China? They may decide that some aid and investment can bribe the Taliban, for a while, not to assist the Uighars...

Cheap electronics and the internet will do what US military intervention failed to do.

[JimC]

It will be a relationship with deep, in-built incompatibilities which will destabilise the connection as time goes on...

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/ ... /100436112

The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul, says he welcomes proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting.

Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), made the announcement on the group's Facebook page.

Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir after securing surrounding districts.

I suspect that this announcement means he knows that his resistance movement is well and truly fucked...

[Svartalf]

I fully expect the Massoud family to become extinct fairly soon

[Brian Peacock]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/ ... /100436112

The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul, says he welcomes proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting.

Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), made the announcement on the group's Facebook page.

Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir after securing surrounding districts.

I suspect that this announcement means he knows that his resistance movement is well and truly fucked...

"Resistance is futile", as Shakespeare once famously said.

[Woodbutcher]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/ ... /100436112

The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul, says he welcomes proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting.

Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), made the announcement on the group's Facebook page.

Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir after securing surrounding districts.

I suspect that this announcement means he knows that his resistance movement is well and truly fucked...

"Resistance is futile", as Shakespeare once famously said.

They will be assimilated!

[Scot Dutchy]

So it begins:

Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say

National cricket team included in prohibition, as interim government containing no women starts work

Followed by:

‘Nowhere to go’: divorced Afghan women in peril as the Taliban close in

As horror stories emerge from areas that have fallen to the Islamist militants, women living alone fear they have no route of escape

Afghan women’s defiance and despair: ‘I never thought I’d have to wear a burqa. My identity will be lost’

After 20 years of American occupation nothing changes.

[laklak]

200 years of occupation and nothing would change. They're stuck in the 7th century.

[Seabass]

They just haven't had the right occupiers. Clearly this is a job for the Netherregions.

[pErvinalia]

[Scot Dutchy]

They just haven't had the right occupiers. Clearly this is a job for the Netherregions.

Why? Or another unsupported claim over this country. We were never good colonialists just was not in our mentality. You needed the Anglo-Saxon mentality to occupy, rule and make a complete arse and tit of it.