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Taliban says it now controls 85% of territory in Afghanistan
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Taliban says it controls most of Afghanistan, reassures Russia
Taliban says it controls most of Afghanistan, reassures Russia
A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85% of territory in Afghanistan and reassured Russia it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to attack others.
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The US fails because it is arrogant. Washington suffers from malignant narcissistic personality disorder. It doesn’t take the time to get to know a country and culture before barging in laying down the law and trying to change things because only the US way of doing things is the right way. It destroys a country’s infrastructure and economy to weaken it and then it engages in a systematic cultural pillaging, but it does so with sticks instead of carrots and the nationals end up by hating it because it destroys or tries to destroy their heritage and everything they love.… Read more »
The US has absolutely zero interest to “get to know a country and culture” before bombing it to kingdom come and killing millions of innocent people who have done them no harm. The US calls it “collateral damage.” Wars are fought to make the billionaires even richer, to satisfy the Military Industrial Complex, to exploit the countries’ riches and resources, and to build a global empire. You are probably correct when you say the US is worse than the Taliban. At least the Taliban pray to the same Allah as the Afghans do, while the US appears to pray to… Read more »
How humiliating can it get when the White House press secretary openly said no parade for returning troops from Afghanistan because the mission was not accomplished. Its was a total failure. Yes the military industrial complex made money and billionaires became richer but what has not been admitted is that the US military has been made weaker to the point it is unable to conduct wars itself. The other point is that not only has the US been defeated but so has NATO. In the Warsaw Pact the main burden was carried by the Soviet Union and so with NATO… Read more »