I’ve been curious lately about Afghanistan. It’s been awhile now since Taliban took complete control of the country. For anyone knowlegable, is some kind of resistance brewing in there, socialist or otherwise?
There was an insurgency brewing in Panjshir that saw ex-government officials work with local anti-Taliban forces. I haven’t heard much about it since it started, though. I do remember a lot of calls for the US to support them but IIRC the US wasn’t interested so unsure what is going on at the moment.
My mother has a friend with relatives in Afghanistan. Her friend has not said much on the topic for a while but one thing of note was that her relatives praised the Taliban for dealing with some of the famine conditions present during the US occupation.
Something about how the new government has stopped forcing fertile land to be used to grow opium and actually grow food. I’ve seen other brief reports that confirmed this over a year ago or more which is when we last asked about her relatives.
Otherwise I can’t say much unfortunately.
I can only hope that Iran is able to influence the new government into reversing a lot of their backward anti-woman stances on education. Afghanistan borders a nation with one of the most successful female literacy campaigns of the last 50 years. It’s a shame that the state of affairs is the way it is considering how much could be learned by just studying the programs just over the border.
Very interesting, thank you. I saw some strange articles about how Afghan’s courts legalized slavery, but they all come from the western outlets and I obviously don’t trust a single word they say. Trying to get all the info I can independently.
What that country needs right now first and foremost is stability, recovery and development. It needs to rebuild its infrastructure, its economy, its productive base and its human capital after decades of war, devastation and occupation.
Of course thats what they need, but I was curious about the reality of the situation on the ground.
American soldiers will have to guard another country’s opium poppies.
They have Fentanyl now, so I guess they don’t need opium anymore.
