https://twitter.com/Lee_H_E/status/1557562861102186497
Xi Xinpeng watching this, knowing there’s absolutely no way his army of 5’4” 90lb soldiers can fight their way through entire cities of this and still enter Appalachia with any momentum https://t.co/tc8Fbia2Ua
— Lee E (@Lee_H_E) August 11, 2022
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afghanistan but orders of magnitude worse?
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Is that even possible?
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Like 1% of Afghans had outdated hand-me-down Soviet equipment, do you know how many burgers have modern guns? I'm not convinced all the official militaries on the planet combined (including America's) could firmly hold America if even 10% of the population was fighting back, shitty informal guerillas are already proven to be monstrously effective even against modern heavy equipment
Assuming it doesn't balkanize and everyone starts shooting each other, at least
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afghanies also had religious cause and fanatical devotion to their holy book. burgers only care about gasoline and macdonalds availability
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Most afghans hate the taliban, it really wasn't that many people fighting back
I imagine there's a higher proportion of rightoids begging for an excuse to shoot, than there were people resisting the US in afghanistan
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this is top cope. "not my president" secularist style
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Lmfao like the entire country turned on the Taliban when the US rolled in in 2001. Radical muzzie leaders who swore they had the backing of the Afghan people were sold out by their brothers for the cost of stale MRE cookies.
The larger populace just supports whoever will give them the most money and has the most ability to drop bombs on their heads. There’s literally zero loyalty beyond the immediate family.
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Did bush tell you this? lmao
u see the irony between the statements?
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I was literally there talking to these people. Taliban, Russian, American, Afghan, it's all the same to some goat herder in Wardak who just wants to live the way he always has. We had one dude who thought we were Russians and when I told him we were Americans he asked why we were there. Absolutely everybody was fine with us killing OBL and toppling the Taliban. The problems started (for the US, the Taliban had the same problems back when they were running things whenever they tried to do anything more than arrest unaccompanied women) when we tried to “nation build” and got exploited by everybody who’s sole motivation was sponging up as many resources as possible. The US was averaging something like 20 deaths a year (if that) there for the last decade, we pretty much pacified any real resistance long ago; pulling out was entirely because of endless financial exploitation by locals and had nothing to do with the Taliban or guerilla warfare.
Your opinion is coming from your r-slurred westoid capeshit fantasy of some badass warriors uniting under their love of god to overthrow the Empire. You will never, ever fully understand this populace.
Fair enough. They hate the Taliban as much as they hated the US, they’re just outsiders going around trying to meddle in everyone’s affairs. Many will pretend otherwise as long as there’s some benefit but there’s little genuine loyalty. This is also why the Taliban is sneeding so hard over frozen funds, they only have power so long as they can pay their “supporters” off.
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???? did you not see how many afghans were horrified that the taliban took over again? having a monopoly on violence doesn't actually require being popular, and it's not a big secret that they cause huge amounts of suffering
your same logic is saying random africans are happy about living under warlords just because they have the same religion and ethnicity, but in fact most people don't like living under violent regimes that kidnap kids and chop heads off anyone that doesn't pay the monthly labor tax. no amount of indoctrination is going to convince ordinary people it's a good thing to have their kids conscripted
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true, but the Taliban are not like that.
so did many liberals in the USA when Trump won if the media focuses on them, you can make anyone see anything. Especially the big city slikers
(can't believe I am literally defening the taliban)
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Burgers live concentrated in cities and most would die without access to 24/7 running water, electricity etc. Plus I think even Afg could have been won if burgers went scorched earth enough. They fight with medieval ethics, act like Timur and they'll fall in line.
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I think that’s only true if the invading military isn’t perfectly ok with killing huge quantities of the civilian population
Romans killed a third of Gaul, British killed tons of Africans and Indians, and mostly things calmed down for both of them
Then again Nazis/Japs dealt with partisans in Russia/China forever and ended up losing even though they were happy killing a ton of them, but that’s mostly because they were too overextended to clean things up like they wanted to. The Red Army/Chinese Armies beat them, not the guerrillas
I just think guerrillas aren’t a big threat if you’re fine with killing a lot of men women and children
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Look at Native Americans they fought forever until there was like 20 left
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Yeah and we gave them little shitholes in Wyoming and killed most of them. My point exactly, guerrillas only threatening if you don’t wanna kill them all
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Yeah but they were just bonking each other with branches and shit. Then one day, frogs and bongs arrived and went "lmao wanna do some real damage? Take this boomstick" and their population halved overnight.
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There weren't very many to begin with and were outnumbered like 100:1
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And they knew how to live without WiFi
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That’s why the Second Amendment needs to protect IEDs, MANPADs and ATGMs
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It would take some incredibly contrived circumstances for that kind of genocide to really be worth the costs, approaching a point where you might as well just nuke half the planet
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Idk sounds plausible to me
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Well if the alternative is you losing anything is worth the cost
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That's not how it works when you're the invader lol, there are definitely worse outcomes than white peace
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