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Central Asia may finally be stabilizing? The Taliban might not be your ideal government, but it's a well-supported government in a region that's dealt with way too much chaos and way too much bloodshed.
How much you wanna bet those upvotes are coming from lemmy world and sh.ithole
You're the only one talking about the US.
You may want to double check your facts. If I were you, thankfully I am not, I would take the defeat and move on. No one wants what the West is selling, you had 20 years and 2.3 trillion dollars to prove your point and you failed.
If you considered Vichy Afghanistan to be stable. It clearly crumbled immediately.
At this point US military involvement is out of the question. If they get cash for minerals from Xi, they might get to some welfare state condition similar to Saudi with plenty of repression but at least some prosperity to show for it. Might be preferable to their current state.
They are making solar panels in Afghanistan now with technology imported from China.
If Afghanistan is left alone it can develop and progress. When the modern Saudi state started out a 100 years ago it was basically like Afghanistan. And this is it now https://youtu.be/FC0bl2PObW4
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Apart from what NaibofTabr said, I don't think you quite realize how being the government of Afghanistan works. Just like everyone else before in this artificial amalgamation of borders cutting right through tribal land that is Afghanistan, the Taliban are ruling from and their rule is largely limited to to a few cities. The rest in between operates largely on their own terms and has little to nothing to do with whoever is in charge in Kabul, no matter who it is.