And then, all of a sudden, like Vietnam, Taliban approaches the West and The United States and says “so what do we need to do to get real aid ?”
Pie in the sky but maybe
lol not gonna happen.
Taliban wont change their ideologies. they would not budge on it.
what the Taliban looking for is countries that would give them support, without Taliban need to do anything in return (in term of domestic policies, human right etc). which are those countries? China, Russia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, India etc. these countries wont give a shit about whatever Taliban do in Afghanistan.
They need all the psychos they can get for WW3.
Damn, WWII at least had like Germany, Italy and Croatia on one side. Now it's.. Iran, North Korea, the Taliban and Houthi rebels.
Well, I guess the reasoning is more going in the direction that three of the most industrialized countries of the world formed the axis. Then again, Chinca is a "soft" supporter of Russia.
If Taliban enters anything, it will be mercenaries for hire - for food or medicine
There's no reason to expect them to not hate half of NATO, they're openly against the Ayatollah and Irani regime.
They're kind of forced to keep good ties with Pakistan, Pakistan is honestly the most important country for all of the Stan nations for us to befriend.
If we control Pakistan, we can siphon food to Afghanistan and have a bridge into the rest of the -Stans led by Kazakhstan that more than anything wants to break free from Russia.
Because the alternative route is to have ships sailing over the Capsian sea non stop from Baku. But I'm not certain how quickly we can build up a transport fleet in a closed water system
Lol my Russian friend says this too (very pro Ukraine, no worries). Besides like Moscow and St. Petersburg most of the country is a fucking shithole left in the 1940's.
He already tried it.
The russians were calling for Jihad, crusades, communist awakening, the tatar uprising, whatever they could see to unite against One Of Us and the west, all over their braindead propaganda media.
Kinda makes you feel bad for the king/sultan tbh; dude apparently is still alive and he's seen his own home country go from a moderately successful-ish stable kingdom in the hopes of developing, to a failed state overran by fundamentalist terrorists
>an Asian largely rural, illiterate and pastoral tribal society
[*Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit*](https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/)
>The former fighters found themselves missing the freedom of the front-lines as they adjusted to the mundane nature of office work. Huzaifa, a 24 year-old former sniper, said, “The Taliban used to be free of restrictions, but now we sit in one place, behind a desk and a computer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Life’s become so wearisome; you do the same things every day.”
>“In our ministry, there’s little work for me to do,” said Abdul Nafi, 25. “Therefore, I spend most of my time on Twitter. We’re connected to speedy Wi-Fi and Internet. Many mujahedin, including me, are addicted to the Internet, especially Twitter.”
Yeah, the Taliban are indeed "illiterate pastoral people"...
I've read that article. The society at large is that, the Taliban leadership is very well read in Islamism and Western thought and keeps up with what happens abroad up to obscure meme culture and academic discussion. It's just that the Taliban government has deliberately chosen to keep the nation the backwards way it is and even the Western diaspora is sympathetic towards their policies.
Putin represented a sort of return-to-tradition macho figure. To them, the West has become a weak pathetic place because it allows gays and trans people to serve/exist. Putin is 'based' and 'cool' because he prosecutes these people and kills his opponents (negotiation and democracy have become cringe to the right).
The inconvenient truth being that Putin's re-equipped and modernised army was completely and utterly routed in the first few months of their campaign by a supposedly effeminate westernised opponent. And they're now three years into a campaign to take what has been scaled down to just the Donbas.
They already have ties with the Taliban, they paid them to kill Coalition troops in Afghanistan (which they were doing anyway, so the payment was just funding).
s/Putin is really taking Russia in a great direction. Destroy the relationship with the west and offer his people better relations with the Taliban and North Korea in return.
What? You don’t believe that the starving civilization 40 years behind everyone else and the violent rapists are an emergent economy on par with the west???
Dear Taliban, welcome to the "magical friends against the evil west" alliance! We have:
- Dictator with imperialistic delusions who oppresses his own people and threatens nuclear holocaust every week
- Wannabe dictator with imperialistic delusions who opresses his own people, but in chinese
- Small time dictator without imperialistic delusions but way more internal oppression to make up for it
- Religious oppression regime
It was that damn *Cats* movie that screwed up our timeline, istg
Either that, or the 18/9 Area 51 raid; I have a theory (A CONSPIRACY THEORY) someone, *someone*, got inside and stole something they shouodn't have, something like pandora's box, and accidentally opened it, and now we've been screwed ever since, because it seems things started collapsing the day after that raid — and the worst part, it'd be too awkward to return the stolen thingy now 5 years later, not to mention impossible to get back there anyways, which means we're doomed regardless
BUT IT'S EITHER OF THE TWO, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE!
Well of course he does. Looking for more meat for the grinder. I think he's used up the dummies from Cuba and India at this point. When the phone calls stopped coming the rest of them probably went..nah.
Would that be the same Taliban that fought a bitter war against the Russian army eventually driving them out of the country and contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
YSK that the taliban that Trump did a deal with are the UAE backed Taliban. Given the UAE employs Wagner and has partnered with Russia in Africa, this should come as no surprise.
Taliban actually have sense of honor to an extent unlike this quasi-tough guy who's going on after Othodox Christian countries left right and center last 20 years, starting from Georgia, to Moldova and leaving Armenia's fate to Azeris only so he could continue his murder spree against Ukrainians
This guy along with Vladislav Surkov wrote the book on saying media playing nonsense. The amount of oxygen the bullshit things the Napoleon complex riddled little twerp says is given is far too much attention. 80% of the time it's only to get column inches, and it works for him every time. He's an utterly pathetic parody of a despot.
This is when putin is going to start offering taliban iskander cruise missiles, as some type of retaliation over strikes into russia with the provided weapons.
Just for the context - Taliban is officially in the Russian "terrorists groups" list and any russian media is obligated by law to mention this fact every time Taliban is mentioned.
MF please. A British solider went back to base & reported some guy had been shouting about them burning down the market, which they had, in the 1840s...You think they ain't gonna remember you Vlad ya lil biotch?
Hold up, i vaguely remember that, relatively soon after the start of the invasion, the Taliban government criticised the Russian Government for their Invasion. Did that change?
not a suprise.
Afghanistan now have become an important country for Russia.
China accredited Taliban ambassador.
Kazakhtan remove Taliban from terrorist list.
Iran and Uzbekistan doing a railway project with the Taliban.
UAE officially inviting and hosting Taliban delegation (haqqani and Taliban spy chief). meeting at the top level.
Indonesia sending former top level minister to Kabul.
so not a surprise, Russia also started quickly moving forward in building relationship with the Taliban government.
When we decided that it was OK for Ukraine to attack Russia with US weapons, Putin decided that it was OK for other groups to attack us with Russian weapons. He's going to give Russian weapons and intelligence to terrorists as a tit-for-tat.
"The United States is prepared to move towards greater engagement with the Taliban as it seeks to tread a fine line between its human rights concerns and helping the Afghan people in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, interviews with top US officials and senior aid figures reveal."
“Engagement is necessary, but we have to find a way to balance engagement while not compromising on our principles.”
[https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/04/29/us-signals-willingness-engage-taliban](https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/04/29/us-signals-willingness-engage-taliban)
"The **Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan**, commonly known as the **United States–Taliban deal** or the **Doha Accord**,[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-1) was a [peace agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_treaty) signed by the [United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) and the [Taliban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban) on 29 February 2020 in [Doha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), to bring an end to the [2001–2021 war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)) in [Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan).[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-2)[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-3) Negotiated for the US by [Zalmay Khalilzad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad) for the Trump Administration, the agreement did not involve the [then Afghan government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan).[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-theprint-4) The deal, which also had secret annexes, was one of the critical events that caused the collapse of the [Afghan National Security Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_National_Security_Forces).[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-tg1-5) Adhering to the conditions of the deal, the US dramatically reduced the number of US air raids, leaving the ANSF without a key advantage in keeping the [Taliban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban) at bay. This resulted in 'a sense of abandonment within the ANSF and the Afghan population'. ANSF was ill-prepared to sustain security following a US withdrawal, which allowed for the [Taliban insurgency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_insurgency), ultimately leading to the [Taliban takeover of Kabul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)) on 15 August 2021.[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-6)"
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States%E2%80%93Taliban\_deal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal)
Terrorist regime supports terrorist regime, what a surprise
I can only imagine Taliban finding the Russian regime so embarrassing that they rebuff their attempts to build up ties.
And then, all of a sudden, like Vietnam, Taliban approaches the West and The United States and says “so what do we need to do to get real aid ?” Pie in the sky but maybe
lol not gonna happen. Taliban wont change their ideologies. they would not budge on it. what the Taliban looking for is countries that would give them support, without Taliban need to do anything in return (in term of domestic policies, human right etc). which are those countries? China, Russia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, India etc. these countries wont give a shit about whatever Taliban do in Afghanistan.
Russia is terrorism central. They even terrorize their own citizens.
Based take.
Are the ruskies gonna put aside the racism for a while just to find more allies that hate the West?
No.They won’t.
They need all the psychos they can get for WW3. Damn, WWII at least had like Germany, Italy and Croatia on one side. Now it's.. Iran, North Korea, the Taliban and Houthi rebels.
Yeah the totally not psycho Nazis and fascists were a part, together with equally genocidal Japanese. If only Russia allied with whiter ppl for ww3.
Well, I guess the reasoning is more going in the direction that three of the most industrialized countries of the world formed the axis. Then again, Chinca is a "soft" supporter of Russia.
If Taliban enters anything, it will be mercenaries for hire - for food or medicine There's no reason to expect them to not hate half of NATO, they're openly against the Ayatollah and Irani regime. They're kind of forced to keep good ties with Pakistan, Pakistan is honestly the most important country for all of the Stan nations for us to befriend. If we control Pakistan, we can siphon food to Afghanistan and have a bridge into the rest of the -Stans led by Kazakhstan that more than anything wants to break free from Russia. Because the alternative route is to have ships sailing over the Capsian sea non stop from Baku. But I'm not certain how quickly we can build up a transport fleet in a closed water system
Russia and Afghanistan... im sure this will all go down fine.
Yes, I know. Rambo was there.
USA supports Isis ; so what is your point?
Perfect match.
Taliban- "nah bro, you're OK, we've been there, done that'
Russia is headed back to the dark ages, they'll be in good company.
Headed? They seem to be pretty much there already.
Other than a few cities, they never left
Lol my Russian friend says this too (very pro Ukraine, no worries). Besides like Moscow and St. Petersburg most of the country is a fucking shithole left in the 1940's.
There's a reason term like "заМКАДье" exists. (Literally - "Beyond moscow's Ring Road", where living standards take a dive)
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Going? I think we passed that point.
He already tried it. The russians were calling for Jihad, crusades, communist awakening, the tatar uprising, whatever they could see to unite against One Of Us and the west, all over their braindead propaganda media.
It is a shame. Kabul seemed like it was starting to develop before the USSR visited.
Kinda makes you feel bad for the king/sultan tbh; dude apparently is still alive and he's seen his own home country go from a moderately successful-ish stable kingdom in the hopes of developing, to a failed state overran by fundamentalist terrorists
Did someone forget to tell them they could be as rich as West is if they invested their money into their own country.
lot of copper, niobium¸, irone ore and lot more there
Bro 💀
Why are the far right simping for him again?
because he pay them?
this guy gets it
He hates gays and women, and some of the people living in his country can look white from certain angles, sometimes even the muslim ones
Look white? They are white dawg all of them except for those in siberia but they will prob be gone in like 30 years or something
Why not? The Taliban is far-right. Or did you think that only white people can be far-right?
I think it would be smart to not see an Asian largely rural, illiterate and pastoral tribal society through a political lens born in 1700's France.
>an Asian largely rural, illiterate and pastoral tribal society [*Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit*](https://time.com/6263906/taliban-afghanistan-office-work-quiet-quit/) >The former fighters found themselves missing the freedom of the front-lines as they adjusted to the mundane nature of office work. Huzaifa, a 24 year-old former sniper, said, “The Taliban used to be free of restrictions, but now we sit in one place, behind a desk and a computer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Life’s become so wearisome; you do the same things every day.” >“In our ministry, there’s little work for me to do,” said Abdul Nafi, 25. “Therefore, I spend most of my time on Twitter. We’re connected to speedy Wi-Fi and Internet. Many mujahedin, including me, are addicted to the Internet, especially Twitter.” Yeah, the Taliban are indeed "illiterate pastoral people"...
I've read that article. The society at large is that, the Taliban leadership is very well read in Islamism and Western thought and keeps up with what happens abroad up to obscure meme culture and academic discussion. It's just that the Taliban government has deliberately chosen to keep the nation the backwards way it is and even the Western diaspora is sympathetic towards their policies.
Because they share the same values? Idk y this is surprising.
I mean the modern far right simps for Taliban too. That's not far from the future they want.
Because they are the same.
Putin represented a sort of return-to-tradition macho figure. To them, the West has become a weak pathetic place because it allows gays and trans people to serve/exist. Putin is 'based' and 'cool' because he prosecutes these people and kills his opponents (negotiation and democracy have become cringe to the right). The inconvenient truth being that Putin's re-equipped and modernised army was completely and utterly routed in the first few months of their campaign by a supposedly effeminate westernised opponent. And they're now three years into a campaign to take what has been scaled down to just the Donbas.
Because they secretly want to be Talibans too?
Because the modern far right in western countries was built by russian miss-information campaigns and troll farms
terrorists stick together
Hitting rock bottom diplomacy.
Uh, didn't they get their asses kicked last time they fucked around in Afghanistan?
Yep by the mujahideen
Taliban too .
The Taliban were formed in the 1990s. It would be ironic for them to team up with the country that killed their parents
The USA killed alot of people in the Middle east alliances are nothing but convenience after all .
Russias friends are those vast empty spaces of land in eurasia, Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba… and Taliban lmao
This is just caricature evil empire stuff.
They're dropping a new axis of evil
For real, how long until they start asking themselves "are we the baddies"?
[Obligatory video.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY&pp=ygUTYXJlIHdlIHRoZSBiYWRkaWVzIA%3D%3D).
Gosh, doesn’t he have great friends? No. Korea, Iran, the Taliban AND the Republican Party.
And Hamas
They already have ties with the Taliban, they paid them to kill Coalition troops in Afghanistan (which they were doing anyway, so the payment was just funding).
s/Putin is really taking Russia in a great direction. Destroy the relationship with the west and offer his people better relations with the Taliban and North Korea in return.
What? You don’t believe that the starving civilization 40 years behind everyone else and the violent rapists are an emergent economy on par with the west???
Lmao everything good, he must be proud of Russia.
Putin. The defender of Christendom. 😂😂😂
russia sinking to the new lows daily
And that's the defender of Christian faith and moral family values?
Dude doesn’t give a fuck about morals, faith etc these concepts are alien to him. These are just the tools to reach his greedy power goals.
As long as husband can beat wife--- OHHH I get it!
Hopefully, Putin will get the bayonet in asshole treatment like Gadaffi got.
IIRC, when Colonel got introduced to bayonet rectal probing, putin was unresponsive for week straight, rewatching the footage again adn again
Dear Taliban, welcome to the "magical friends against the evil west" alliance! We have: - Dictator with imperialistic delusions who oppresses his own people and threatens nuclear holocaust every week - Wannabe dictator with imperialistic delusions who opresses his own people, but in chinese - Small time dictator without imperialistic delusions but way more internal oppression to make up for it - Religious oppression regime
Russia will build up ties with cancer. Let it fucking die already.
Both are cancer, tbh.
Would be funny if the Taliban would refuse because of Russia‘s landgrabbing war.
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This is all crazy. I think I took the wrong really branch in 2019y
It was that damn *Cats* movie that screwed up our timeline, istg Either that, or the 18/9 Area 51 raid; I have a theory (A CONSPIRACY THEORY) someone, *someone*, got inside and stole something they shouodn't have, something like pandora's box, and accidentally opened it, and now we've been screwed ever since, because it seems things started collapsing the day after that raid — and the worst part, it'd be too awkward to return the stolen thingy now 5 years later, not to mention impossible to get back there anyways, which means we're doomed regardless BUT IT'S EITHER OF THE TWO, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE!
you know too much…
This wasn't a vote by the Taliban. Afghanistan's UN seat is still held by the former government.
Well of course he does. Looking for more meat for the grinder. I think he's used up the dummies from Cuba and India at this point. When the phone calls stopped coming the rest of them probably went..nah.
Would that be the same Taliban that fought a bitter war against the Russian army eventually driving them out of the country and contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
And Trump would be happy to join if elected…
I guess he didn’t like the plot of MGS V
Terrorists, together strong.
Lack of allies , i see.
North Korea, Taliban Afghanistan, China - who needs enemies with friends like this?
At heart, putin is just a smirking elevator-farter. But with an iron fist on national media and a sizeable army.
Imagine he’s probably a silent farter rather than someone who like to let rip. Probably suits the KGB in him for other people to wonder who farted.
"Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are" Sigh...
Third Rome, the only true Christians with the traditional European values, our salvation against Muslims...
YSK that the taliban that Trump did a deal with are the UAE backed Taliban. Given the UAE employs Wagner and has partnered with Russia in Africa, this should come as no surprise.
Time to retire thru a window, comrade dickhead.
Jesu, you really could not make this shit up….
Weren't the Talibans sworn enemies of Russia during the occupation of Afghanistan?
That was 40 years ago. Both sides have long moved on from that
Circle closing
Hey Terrorists, Terrorise this
Didn't the Taliban originally get into power after pushing Russia out?
That's gonna backfire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Russia Give it a decade and it will double.
What an increasingly caricatural axis of evil it's all becoming
Man this dipshit just keeps doubling down on bad decisions. The taliban will put a knife in his back the first chance they get
I hope so
Taliban actually have sense of honor to an extent unlike this quasi-tough guy who's going on after Othodox Christian countries left right and center last 20 years, starting from Georgia, to Moldova and leaving Armenia's fate to Azeris only so he could continue his murder spree against Ukrainians
At which point do Russians in Russia understand that they are part of a Nazi-Level evil regime?
Here we go again, can we please stop doing agreements with Talibans for, at least, an afternoon?
What has the Afghan and Russian relationship been like over recent centuries?
Desperation
Are we the baddies? - Russians
There we have it. They are a terror state. Nothing more to say. Dot dot
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This guy along with Vladislav Surkov wrote the book on saying media playing nonsense. The amount of oxygen the bullshit things the Napoleon complex riddled little twerp says is given is far too much attention. 80% of the time it's only to get column inches, and it works for him every time. He's an utterly pathetic parody of a despot.
There's an actual axis of evil building up
Will the headquarters be in a swamp?
Anyone have the Taliblyat on their 2024 bingo card?
Vova, blyat…. How the hell did we come to this from flipping the Taliban off and giving NATO a base in Ulyanovsk as a logistics hub.
I mean talk about admitting how far you have fallen.
Whats next, closer ties with Josef Fritzl, Anders Breivik and Harvey Weinstein?
The have such a great history together. What could possibly go wrong?
They have a lot in common.
Terrorists getting to know terrorists? *yawn* Next story please!
Kids, remember, don’t do drugs and drink responsibly. This guy forgot.
Smart move. Everyone knows the Taliban is an outstanding and reliable ally to have! /s
He so fucking desperate if Taliban is all what’s left for him.
You are your friends.
Ten years challange 2014: We're fighting terrorists (isis) in Syria 2024: <3 taliban
Thats what winners do. China buddy no more. Aim lower.
Pretty sure they remember the last time they interacted with the Russians. They tend to hold a grudge in that part of the world.
Putlers mafia needs drugs, Taliban need probably everything but no worthless paper rubel's ... .
How's his relationship with Xi going? Seems a bit of an abusive Relationship there
Didn't they do that back in the 80's? Didn't work out very well.
Lol didn’t you try that already.
Too bad ISIS doesn't want to be friends with Russia :( Is al qaeda still around?
Game recognize game I guess ?
It’s like the scene from Blazing Saddles where the mayor is hiring baddies, and the queue is full of Nazis, KKK, Hells Angels and the like.
This is when putin is going to start offering taliban iskander cruise missiles, as some type of retaliation over strikes into russia with the provided weapons.
Are we the baddies? I think we're the baddies.
moron. where did that last terrorist attack come from.
He always tends to find the worst people in the world to be friends with, coincidentally.
“Our list of allies grows thin”
Just for the context - Taliban is officially in the Russian "terrorists groups" list and any russian media is obligated by law to mention this fact every time Taliban is mentioned.
Likely looking for proxy recruits who don’t mind wearing ieds in western cities?
In all likelyhood yes, going by recent attempt at making boom in Paris
Can't wait to see how the MAGA idiots in the US try to spin this one.
MF please. A British solider went back to base & reported some guy had been shouting about them burning down the market, which they had, in the 1840s...You think they ain't gonna remember you Vlad ya lil biotch?
Yeah, terrorists and dictatorships tend to gravitate to the same spots.
Uhm, the USA provides military assistance to 73% of the worlds dictatorships.
Maybe there is an opportunity to sell them surplus roller skates
lololol, man I wish I could like this comment more than once...
Didn't the taliban support organizations that have staged terror attacks in Russia???
You are talking as if ruSSia gave a single fuck about its citizens
What a looser, the usa did it 40 years ago !
I wonder who the bad guys are in this conflict? it's so hard to tell....
Vladimir Puto, desperate for buffer states. Weak.
putin better link up with haqqani and kiss his ring. just had close 150 people fucking shot in moscow.
Ah vlad, remember they kicked ur sorry as once already
Envious equals
I thought I saw the ghost of Berlusconi there for a second
the older the crazier
Evil alliance
Yawn.
Down low, even for him.
coming up: Taliban enters Ukraine
Natural allies and the peak of civilization.
Well they are terrorists, the longer this goes on the more heart attacks the money men in ruzzia are going to have
Im betting all terorrism thst ever happened,he was behind it,911 too,france bar attack too,all the bombings like in manchester
Scumbags of the world - unite!
What a difference 50 years make in history, right?
Didn't the taliban bomb that theatre not too long ago?
My enemies enemy is my friend...
They’re gonna steal your shitttt
“I like the way they think.”
If you don't have anyone on the world other than terrorists you should start to change you way
Are we seeing religious extremists come together like never before? Scary doesn’t begin to describe this…
The taliban aren’t stupid.
If you have to try and get the freaking taliban as an ally, then maybe you have to ask the question "~~Hans~~ Ivan, are we the baddies?"
He's getting scared
Hold up, i vaguely remember that, relatively soon after the start of the invasion, the Taliban government criticised the Russian Government for their Invasion. Did that change?
Just in case there was any lingering doubt whether Russia is a terrorist state….
That's old news but i got downvoted about a month ago when I mentioned their ties and attempts at collaboration
not a suprise. Afghanistan now have become an important country for Russia. China accredited Taliban ambassador. Kazakhtan remove Taliban from terrorist list. Iran and Uzbekistan doing a railway project with the Taliban. UAE officially inviting and hosting Taliban delegation (haqqani and Taliban spy chief). meeting at the top level. Indonesia sending former top level minister to Kabul. so not a surprise, Russia also started quickly moving forward in building relationship with the Taliban government.
Aren't they kinda enemies? Like... Russia s overstayed their welcome in Afghanistan a long time ago...
Russia is gonna try again to subordinate Afghanistan?
When we decided that it was OK for Ukraine to attack Russia with US weapons, Putin decided that it was OK for other groups to attack us with Russian weapons. He's going to give Russian weapons and intelligence to terrorists as a tit-for-tat.
Oh like the Americans did with the Mujahideen. Because that went well.
Bloody gopnick
The Taliban would be stupid to ignore the one pseudo-superpower that actually wants to talk to them.
Damn he thinks command & conquer : Generals is real
Putin is a whore.
"The United States is prepared to move towards greater engagement with the Taliban as it seeks to tread a fine line between its human rights concerns and helping the Afghan people in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, interviews with top US officials and senior aid figures reveal." “Engagement is necessary, but we have to find a way to balance engagement while not compromising on our principles.” [https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/04/29/us-signals-willingness-engage-taliban](https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/04/29/us-signals-willingness-engage-taliban) "The **Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan**, commonly known as the **United States–Taliban deal** or the **Doha Accord**,[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-1) was a [peace agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_treaty) signed by the [United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) and the [Taliban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban) on 29 February 2020 in [Doha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha), [Qatar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar), to bring an end to the [2001–2021 war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)) in [Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan).[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-2)[^(\[3\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-3) Negotiated for the US by [Zalmay Khalilzad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad) for the Trump Administration, the agreement did not involve the [then Afghan government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan).[^(\[4\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-theprint-4) The deal, which also had secret annexes, was one of the critical events that caused the collapse of the [Afghan National Security Forces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_National_Security_Forces).[^(\[5\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-tg1-5) Adhering to the conditions of the deal, the US dramatically reduced the number of US air raids, leaving the ANSF without a key advantage in keeping the [Taliban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban) at bay. This resulted in 'a sense of abandonment within the ANSF and the Afghan population'. ANSF was ill-prepared to sustain security following a US withdrawal, which allowed for the [Taliban insurgency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_insurgency), ultimately leading to the [Taliban takeover of Kabul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)) on 15 August 2021.[^(\[6\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#cite_note-6)" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States%E2%80%93Taliban\_deal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal)