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Putin calls Taliban Russia's 'ally' in combating terrorism | The Express Tribune (tribune.com.pk)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It sounds wacky if you're on a mostly American or corporate media diet these last twenty years, but the Taliban has been fighting terrorists in their area of late. The situation in the middle east has failed to be as simple as GW Bush would have had us believe.

I don't support them obviously, but I at least recognize that this isn't really as zany and ironic as a typical "not the Onion" headline.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who the Taliban call "terrorists"

Anyone associated with the previous democratic government.
Women.
Anyone with a half decent education.
Regional warlords that were(are?) bankrolled by the US and previously stabilized the country, protecting it from foreign interests like the Taliban.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ah, that's why Trump, Putin and Xi love these people.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, terrorists can fight other terrorists. It doesn't make either flavor any better

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Sometimes they even fight a War On Terror

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

Is it because one terrorist group has been slaughtering all the other terrorists? Maybe that makes them ok in Putin’s eyes?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/WmKireMHUfM

TL;DW: Now that the Taliban actually has the responsibility of holding a country together, they're no longer jihadist enough to satisfy the bloodlust of the other terrorist groups in the area, so they're now being attacked as traitors to the cause. Even worse for the people of the nation, these groups have begun attacking other nations like Russia to force another incursion into Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and leave a power vacuum so the more extreme groups can take over.

[–] VirtualOdour 1 points 1 month ago

Wow fanatics eating their own as the never ending purity spiral spins, the world is so full of new things....