• @bad_news
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    -417 days ago

    The funniest thing about you neolibs is the casual islamophobia from the DEI set… not even islamophobia here, I suppose, since they were Buddhists for half the history above… anti-Pashtun accomplishment? Afghanistan is literally known as the graveyard of empire for good reason. You can’t point to them as equivalent to Ukraine, a very post-industrial country, with no specific multi-generational warrior culture, on a flat plain where the primary obstacle for oncoming tanks is mud. The Russians will not be caught in Ukraine forever, they’ll gain mile by mile until we negotiate a worse peace than we could have had a 100,000+ dead ago.

      • @bad_news
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        -517 days ago

        I don’t think it’s hard to understand that people who have been raised for generations with the constant presence of war and weapons from a subsistence economy would be better at doing endless war than IT consultants used to having iPhones and electricity, but I guess I’m wrong? Also, do you not get how mountains work?