• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    And the Americans used to be on the side of the Taliban when it suited them in a proxy war with Russia.

    The Mujahideen of the 80s weren’t the Taliban. The Mujahideen-led government of the early 90s was quite explicitly attacked and overthrown by the Taliban, and reformed into the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which still existed by the time of our intervention in Afghanistan in 2001.