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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has nothing to do with race. Ukraine didn't bend over for Russia instead fucking their shit up day 1. Their president didn't flee instead stayed and mocked the occupiers by showing off him and his crew were still in Kyiv.

Afghanistan? We trained them for twenty years to stand up for themselves as a independent democratic nation and threw it away the second we left. What a fucking waste. They didn't even have fucking OIL to take. Nor was Osama there, or ever was.

If Afghanistan actually gave a fuck and tried but failed my opinion would be quite different. I'd be all "remember our fallen Afghan allies" o7 n shit.

So yeah take your standard operation trolling elsewhere. I've seen this exact same talking point before it's not original, think for yourself for a goddamn change*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you think that's the timeline of events for Afghan forces, then you don't know shit. We never trained them to use the equipment we spent trillions of dollars on. The manuals didn't even have an Arabic translation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We apparently spent billions doing it..

Or just shuffled money around. Either way an attempt was made.