Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "How elite US groups created Afghanistan's neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million" video.

Amen to that. All Assange ever did was expose our war crimes, as well he should, for that he is a hero, and he's not even a US citizen, yet that was enough to earn him the neverending pursuit of the CIA. But they are pathologically evil and psychopathic so I would expect nothing less. Shame on Obama for being the whistleblower-attacker-in-chief and shame on Biden for allowing it to continue. It's a crying shame the worthless and cucked asf UK gov refuses to protect him, treating him like a first rate criminal when the case against him has proven pathetically false and bogus several times and so obviously trumped up to give the veneer of legitimacy to his persecution.
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@johnsmith1474 lol. C'mon man. If that's all you got then just forget it
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@johnsmith1474 doesn't make it ok bro. And the sooner we gain awareness, the sooner we can speak out and decide what we want to do about it.
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@elsosagaming He will be free and we owe him our thanks for his courage by not forgetting him. The CIA knows everything they do is wrong and immoral and Assange is a hero and a voice for justice for what he did, but they're psychopaths so they don't care, that's not going to stop them from trying to destroy him. He'll be free sooner or later, we just have to keep speaking up for him.
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@johnsmith1474 I don't understand. Do you think war crimes are ok so long as we're the ones doing them???
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@TheHedgehogsDelimma you're right, I think the Taliban are terrible, and I've explained why. I can't be 100% pacifist in all situations; all I can do is try to do my best recognizing all the complexities and the true forces of savagery or exploitation that contribute to a bad geopolitical situation; not to mention local domestic issues within the US. All I can do is my best, man. I just want to know the truth. I think it's pretty true by now that the US occupation of Afganistan produced immoral war crimes, and I would never stand by that, but most conventional US service-members bought the hype they were told and believed they were serving a greater good. To the extent that the Taliban was kept at bay did give many people a chance at a better life. I see now the fatal flaws from the beginning were an immoral and relentlessly corrupt and neoliberal economic agenda that could only bring limited tangible gains for the people at best- so that's a problem- but keeping down violent extremists matters too. Based on all my knowledge so far, in the regions where the Taliban were removed, both women and men could be free to live more or less normal lives. Now that's all gone, thanks to several factors, at least for the immediate future. But I would NEVER support that thru drone strikes or willful and irresponsible disregard of civilian life. The ends never justify the means for me. So I can now clearly see how gross the core flaws in the system were, and there was plenty of corrupt and immoral neolib/corporate/business interests in this mess, but also some of what I believe were sincere and decent ones too, mostly from at least some of the military commanders in the field. Plus, the CIA were allowed to get involved and that's never good. They only bring terror, death and torture. They never should have been allowed to touch the soil, but all past presidents either didn't care what they were doing, or were afraid to oppose them. So yeah, it was a clusterFuck, but it didn't have to be. There were good people of conscience that wanted to help build a better Afghanistan but I can only assume they were ignored. Just because most of the US actors were scubags or clueless or exploiters that doesn't make the Taliban the good guys now by default does it?? They're still cultists, they're still screwed in the head. They still deny the humanity and equal rights of women. They're still primitives who wish to be totalitarians. I just heard they assassinated a pregnant female police officer in one of Roha province (I might not have that name exactly). So this is all shit. I would really like to see a free and stable Afghanistan, I guess given the corruption and amorality of my govt it's not got going to be us who creates that. Of course I want regions to be able to govern themselves but not if extremists and subjugators are in charge! China just wants to do business, I doubt they'll have interest in removing the Taliban. It would have to be Russia. I'm still learning more, but it sounds like before my immoral and illogical idiot gov got involved in the 80s, they were doing good works there. That's all I want to see. Putin is a thug but if he or others from the gov could bring legitimate positive developments, civil order, and opportunities for the region as they tried to do in 1980, yeah, I would want to support that. I believe all the extremists should be destroyed or removed. They keep the country in the Dark ages and they keep millions of women and sometimes others from accessing basic skills, education, work, and even healthcare. It's like if all the crazy "white Taliban" took over here in the US, which they are hard at work trying to do, starting with removing reproductive rights/bodily autonomy. This is obviously a big problem for those of us here on the Left who don't like fascism and see this as oppression.
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@deadbeatdon they had some kind of monarchy from what I understand in the 60s and 70s. That ended when domestic Communists took power in the late 70s. Have you seen the docu "Land of Endless War" on the DW Documentary channel?
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@johnsmith1474 yes, crazed murderous amoral people may have always been around, but that doesn't mean at least half or more of the US isn't standing in shit up to its shoulders. I live here too man and I just want better for everyone, and that starts with being able to take a long hard look at all the serious problems we have. Don't be afraid to face the truth- it's not your fault, but it has been done in our name, as if somehow we average people benefit from all these years of being cheated domestically and these constant abuses overseas to people just like you and me.
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@johnsmith1474 fyi yes Norton is young and it's like nails on a chalkboard how he says the word "Afghanistan", but that doesn't mean he's not telling the truth. You shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
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So true. Also, did you mean to say agency? Vs adjacency?
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@deadbeatdon yeah I found it really fascinating. Assuming it's all true, I learned quite a bit from it.
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@elsosagaming no they sure don't, but hopefully the good guys win out in this case. We will have to see. All we can do is keep speaking up for him and making as much noise as we can while supporting those who are directly fighting for the release of Assange as well all other political prisoners both past and present who had the courage to go up against either domestic white supremacy or the forces of US empire.
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@TheHedgehogsDelimma eyy you're preaching to the choir bruh. I'm on board with all that. I don't know about godless, not everyone believes in a higher power, and I'm ok with that, but if you mean one where the bloodthirsty CIA and its pals in Congress who see themselves as fun n' fash 21st c. cold-warrior nu-nazis who seek one ring to rule them all, via any means necessary, yeah I totally agree with you. I'm not saying things on this planet have to be utopian, I doubt they ever will be, but the planet is finite. I do not believe our current level of consumption can be sustained indefinitely, nor can continued life-and-death competition. I don't ever expect things to be perfect but some kind of non-predatory better relationship has to be set up between the first world and the third world if there's gonna be any hope for future stability worldwide. And you're absolutely right, both mainstream corporate-power parties are basically worthless for most people, and only serve their own very narrow agenda.
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@adamiskandar5107 I think he's speaking as if that's in quotes, as if the Empire is saying that.
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I understand but then just read the article. There way too much information to be condensed into 5 minutes lol.
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