Afghanistan in the 60s and 70s

This is depressing as fuck.

The change from then until to today is absolutely insane…

This could happen to us in the US if we let the Christian taliban take over

Before the Republicans took over

Thanks América

Religious zealots literally dragged them back into the dark ages. Same for Iran and Iraq for that matter.

Unfortunately the story of Afghanistan is one of meddling, as the Persian (ottoman?) empire collapsed, the British stuck their nose in, when the British empire collapsed the Soviets stuck their nose in (along with the US), when the Soviet Empire collapsed, Pakistan stuck its nose in, then the US got involved

Basically, As the Persian empire collapsed in the early to mid 1800s the British fucked around in Afghanistan, playing all the little factions against each other until a little after WWI, when Afghanistan was finally declared a sovereign, independent State (country). After a short civil war in the 1920s a monarch came into power and ruled until 1973. He started a series of reforms and modernizations, doing away with many of the religious rules, creating free schools for male and female children, building infrastructure, creating and encouraging cotton farms and textile manufacturing. Afghanistan stayed natural during WWII and stayed, for the most part, out of the early Cold War. While still a poor country, it’s obvious these reforms worked well, increasing the quality of life for most afghans.

This time it was the Soviets who fucked things up. They supported the more radical elements in country, trying to force the country into to the soviets sphere of influence. Their plan backfired and led the a bloody coup in 1973 while the monarch was out of the country. They set up a Marxist form of government. In the next couple of years there was a series of increasingly religious radical governments out in place before the soviets decided to just invade in 1979 and set up their own government.

This led to well over 10 years of civil war, with the US supporting the afghan insurgents in their fight against the soviets. The Soviet-afghan war ended in 1992 with the Soviet withdrawn (fun fact, this war probably directly led to the fall of the Soviet Union). After that there was an increasingly violent series of civil wars where the various independent “freedom fighter” groups, using the weapons and money supplied by the U.S., vied for power. They essentially destroyed the country, literally and figuratively, weakening the country as a whole until the Taliban, supported by Pakistan, took control of most of the country.

In 2001 the US stepped in and we all know what happened after that

Afghanistan has always been stuck at the edges of major empires, It wasn’t even considered a “country” until the 18th century. It’s always been used as a buffer between all these various empires. The population is made up of a mix of various ethnic groups, the largest one making up only 18% of the total population. It’s been a major player in almost every world religion except Christianity. It just has never had a chance to develop on its own

So one thing that I learned from the locals when I was there, deployed that is. Kabul is not really representative of Afghanistan. It is the capital, but everything outside it is in its own ecosystem. Different dialects, different religious practices (although Islam is prominent). This is one of the reasons why all the major empires failed. They’ve thought by conquering Kabul, they’ll have all of Afghanistan. Even the communist party failed in realizing this, although they tried uniting people under a single banner.

Then came the U.S. funding the extremist peasants by teaching them how to be real terrorists. Don’t forget Rambo and the propaganda he wanted to show.


Is no one seeing the correlation to what we’re seeing in the US? This is what we have now and it will revert back to what Afghanistan is now if we elect Trump.

Religion and freedom don’t mix.

Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan were all of this kind of countries. Don’t know who and why they fucked these countries up.

Religion took over… so it all makes sense now. Evangelical Christians are just jealous of the power they radical Muslims have in these countries since the 70s and 80s.

That’s why they’re trying so hard in the US

Religion is a cancer.

Before cancer

What do they prefer, then or now?

https://preview.redd.it/fnfpclja7ord1.jpeg?width=202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2aff236fc5b2bd89a23bc4ecbacda1eed3471e7f

This DMF is responsible!

Fighting each other yes

A child bride won the right to divorce – now the Taliban say it doesn’t count

[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24evnk5d2o](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24evnk5d2o)

Watch closely USA what happens when religious extremism gets a hold of a country.

Shit got fixed by them death cult 💀

Religion is a curse

man is his own evil!!👹

It’s crazy how volatile those countries are.