• Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    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”

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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        5 hours ago

        Tourism is currently booming, people are coming back to Afghanistan and that alone is a massive change, it’s restructuring what it is decades of drug trafficking for finance to tourism for finance. My friend no offense, but I don’t think you know anything about Afghanistan bar what is said on some major corporate media conglomeration owned by Peter thiel or some shit

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          5 hours ago

          Booming?

          https://www.afghanembassy.au/art-and-culture/travel-and-tourism.html - This claims 20k per year, with the peak being in the 1970s at 90k.

          Antarctica claims 80k in one year: https://iaato.org/news-room/data-statistics

          If those sources are too biased, feel free to supply your own.

          Either way, when the entire countries women and girls are unable to access education, a small bump to tourism doesnt quite add up to a net positive in my eyes.

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            4 hours ago

            First of of all 1970s isn’t when america, Britian or Russia were occupying Afghanistan, it was free and had a democratic leader. Todays Taliban while the new leaders aren’t free from influence of america. The Taliban are the offshoots/successors of the mujahedeen a fundamentalist and extremist organization funded by America to fight against Russia who then afterwards were so funded in comparison to the rest of Afghanistan that they took power. But if you couldn’t understand these basic facts how am I going to explain to you internal political pressure that comes with tourism, money flowing and educated people returning to a regime and their ideals. I don’t support the Taliban but I support they are the current free leaders of Afghanistan and somehow they are leading better than “free world” that funded these extreme bigots stopping girls from going schools and the massive drug fields