In a lot of ways, I fear that won’t be true and it’ll be held up as a shitty example of why misogyny ‘works’
Case in point, they can still sell their opium for a lot of money and use that money to bring in engineers from SEAsia that will risk it for the big money they’re being promised.
They can bring in nurses, etc with the same money, it’s a LOT of a money and unlike Oil, there isn’t a ‘opidollar’ like the ‘petrodollar’
It’s despressing that the right might run and win this shit, I’m just so tired of it.
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong, but who knows. I personally dont think importing skilled slave labour is a winning strategy long term, disgruntled engineers aren’t going to be doing their best work.
The other problem is that no matter how bad it goes, they can spend the next 15-20 years blaming their problems on the Americans, so itll be a while before any real introspection occurs.
Id argue it’s gonna be much better than when america and NATO came to “civilize” them, or the russians came before that or the Brits came even before that. Afghanistan requires Change, but real change happens within, by the people, not fucking “white saviours”
It will matter. Even if the leadership is backward as shit, those guys still need engineers, doctors and other skilled workers.
They need them, they just won’t be getting them.
They are in for a shitty couple of decades.
In a lot of ways, I fear that won’t be true and it’ll be held up as a shitty example of why misogyny ‘works’
Case in point, they can still sell their opium for a lot of money and use that money to bring in engineers from SEAsia that will risk it for the big money they’re being promised.
They can bring in nurses, etc with the same money, it’s a LOT of a money and unlike Oil, there isn’t a ‘opidollar’ like the ‘petrodollar’
It’s despressing that the right might run and win this shit, I’m just so tired of it.
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong, but who knows. I personally dont think importing skilled slave labour is a winning strategy long term, disgruntled engineers aren’t going to be doing their best work.
The other problem is that no matter how bad it goes, they can spend the next 15-20 years blaming their problems on the Americans, so itll be a while before any real introspection occurs.
Absolutely agree how depressing this all is. :(
So do I.
Id argue it’s gonna be much better than when america and NATO came to “civilize” them, or the russians came before that or the Brits came even before that. Afghanistan requires Change, but real change happens within, by the people, not fucking “white saviours”
Absolutely, they have to fix their own problems. But we have seen how the change has gone since the US left, and so far its not been on positive path.