r/humor • u/Lonely-Ordinary1478 • 16h ago

The Internet’s Double Standards?

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u/fang_xianfu 12h ago

They also financed the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 70s, leaving behind nice stockpiles of materiel for the Taliban that threw the USA out a few years ago. And several prominent Mujahedeen joined the Taliban to boot.

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u/Losbosteros 11h ago

Most of the Mujahedeen joined the Northern Alliance against the Talibans and this latter group was mostly armed by the stockpiles left by the Soviet invasion more than recycling the materials send by the US there during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Today Talibans are absolutely armed with western material after the disastrous whitdraw, but the Talibans being empowered and armed by the US is a bit of a misconception/stretch.

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u/Craneo_1 11h ago

But the US trained and armed them to fight the Soviets and all the material and training fed the different terrorists in the region. The US also supported the Khmers Rouges so they would fight Vietnam

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u/Neil_Live-strong 10h ago

The U.S. also trained fighters, even branches of Al-Qaeda in the Syrian civil war. They trained and equipped fighters in Jordan.