Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "How Afghanistan became a failed state" video.

  1. As even Shirvan notes, that description of Afghanistan in the 60s refers only to an urban elite. The poor in the rural countryside were nothing like that, and they made up the vast majority of the population.
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  2. Americans' China obsession is hilarious. The country has barely dipped a toe into Afghanistan so far. Why don't you spare a thought for the hundreds of thousands of dead Afghans thanks to your war, before wringing your hands over China?
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  3. ​ @pete-m86  Yeah, the west cares so much about the Afghan people they launched a war that's killed more Afghans than the Taliban ever did. China aims for global military dominance by not having gone to war in decades, while America has been at war all over the world for most of its history - more than any other nation since WW2, right to the present day. China also aims for economic dominance by way of trading through an American-designed global system (starting with Bretton Woods and going to shape every aspect of the world economy via a whole slew of treaties and organizations). Makes perfect sense lmao! It's hilarious how blind Americans are to what any alien observer would easily be able to make out as a hegemony. And, as with any hegemonic power, they treat any challenger to said "rules-based order" (which rarely applies to America itself, which gives itself carte blanche to even wage wars without intl approval) as a grave threat to the world as a whole. Hence why 3 million Vietnamese had to die despite representing no threat to America itself, for example. Cos it's not about the American homeland, but the American world order. Anything that threatens to undermine that is seen as an existential threat to America itself lol. Btw, while you're 'saving' Taiwan, how about getting your foot of Cuba first? You've treated them far worse than China has treated Taiwan, and the rest of the world including even your allies ('cept your dog Israel) has said as much at the UN for the last several decades now. But go on, keep telling yourself it's for the Cuban people lol, never mind that ya'll loved the previous dictator before Castro, Batista. Really, I'm Indian. You want to go to war with China? Be our guest (don't drag us into it for your sake tho - we aren't your puppets). But do the entire world a favor and drop the moralistic 'champions of the free world and defenders of human rights' nonsense that you keep telling yourself. It's nauseating. You guys are the biggest hypocrites of the modern age, just as the British with the previous (prior to yours) version of 'white man's burden' were before you. Your whole damn foreign policy history has been one long series of betrayals of your own vaunted principles, including freedom and democracy, in nation after nation that you've intervened in. Because the moralistic rhetoric was just that - rhetoric to provide you a moral justification to pursue your own interests. Do us all a favour and be honest about it. Attack China if you want, but don't pretend you're doing it for anyone but yourselves.
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  4.  @Kintabl  Nothing 'went wrong'. That implies there were major changes, which wasn't the case for the majority of the population. That picture of a 'modern Afghanistan' was confined to an urban elite, not the country as a whole.
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  5. He mentioned that in the video. He didn't dwell on it much because there wasn't much change to talk about wrt the rural hinterlands. All the big changes were happening in the cities, hence this summary of events focused on that.
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