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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Coincidentally just as the CIA financed, trained and armed opium warlords and religious zealots to recruit personal armies and set them to burn down thousands of schools all of the country teaching girls in an attempt to eradicate the nascent communist movement and pull their neighbors, the soviet republics, into an unwinnable war of attrition.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah but that was back then and also that's uhh whataboutism I think

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Afghanistan wasn't even really pro-USSR, they were just neutral in the cold war and that was enough for the US to start weekly deliveries of grenade launchers to what we now know as Al Qaeda and the Taliban.