Does Afghanistan have a future?
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2022
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Since the #Taliban’s reconquest, #Afghanistan has formed the eye of a brewing geopolitical storm. Regional powers are pressing for influence.
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Taliban is learning a hard lesson: “Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard” - Genghis Khan.
Isn't it same for USA
Tell this to USA.
Taliban came to power for a year.
USA did shit in 20 years.
@@civlik5408 We didn’t actually succeed in conquering anything at the end of the day. We just tried to push our ideals onto another country and paid the price in the lives of our own soldiers.
This doesnt apply for modern world, because if ottomans and arabs didnt sellout to the west the muslim countries would still be doing great, taliban have great plans and strategies but nobody does business with them because of the biggest bully which is america and europe and now even sellout muslim countries also listen to IMF and FATF, today america colonizes countries with their banks and human rights game, taliban unlike many so called muslim countries want to end interest banking but they cant because the elites and powerful dont like the common man getting to much power. In the end the muslims will be victorious because theres a prophecy to be fulfilled just like the conquest of byzantine empire by the turks and persian empire
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the Taliban family is the ones planting food and working the feals.
Taliban is not starving.
He wouldn't be promoting scams if he was a legend
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The US judge just ruled that the 9/11 victims are not entitled to the central bank assets. Basically for the same reasons you outlined. Good analysis.
I cant imagine there are people out there who thought otherwise. Is there no morality and honour left with the Americans? How could Biden justify such an absurd decision?
How they think they're entitled to Afghan money for 3000 people killed by a separate organization, when their govt. presided over 200,000 being killed in an official war is beyond me. And even they seem embarassed by it, cos when they left no one was talking about 9/11. The media coverage of the event last year would lead one to believe this was a 'humanitarian war' for women's rights lol.
That is your opinion...
@@attitudego where is the honor in fighting a pointless war. The U.S. already got the ones who caused the 9/11 attacks and recently killed the second in command of the attacks. The U.S. doesn't need to be there anymore.
@@attitudego Same way Bush came up with invading Iraq after 9/11 when they had nothing to do with it. Americans think all middle eastern countries are the same.
"You have the watches, but we have the time." -Taliban soldier
But now the Taliban has had to make the switch from an insurgency to a counter insurgency. They have to remain united, which was easy when there was one common enemy. Now they fracture along ideological lines. They now lack both the watches and the time.
They never had any time.
And the poppy fields
They're only real threat is the NRF and they're still building strength. ISKP can hardly be considered an insurgency when they hold no territory, have no ethnic or local support and are simply running around like headless chickens doing the occasional suicide bombings. The Taliban mean while had vast chunks of the north by the first year of the American invasion and had effectively gained a governance of a lot of rural areas. They also have popular Pashtun support.
So civil war.... great.
Time was never on their side to begin with. It was counting down from the start.
I deployed to Afghanistan. Many afghans explained to me that they don’t understand why they would vote for a man from another tribe to lead them. Politics in Afghanistan don’t really go beyond a persons village or outside of their city. The federal government has pretty limited power in what it can do to the average afghan and has been the case for a long time as the standard of living and day to day life of the afghan has not changed in the last 2000 years outside of the advents of the mobile phone and combustion engine. If you looked at an afghan village when the British were there in the 19th century and now the only difference would be plastic garbage in the gutters and a few motorcycles
A lot of African nations have the same issue. Where alot of people, especially in the rural areas, see no point in national elections, or even regional elections. All they want is a local triber ruler, and that is it.
And those are just the facts.
It's starting to get that way in the United States too.
@@KatyaAbc575 you mean a democratic republic. Where the tribe elects a local tribal leader and then that leader elects the next upper echelons, and so on so forth.
And that's why you can't go arround the world trying to make them "democratics" as per your understanding of what it is. Only each society can evolve internally toward that. If your evolution toward democracy is forced, you end up like many banana republics, were there is no democracy at all and its only by name, because their weak institutions are only there to serve a group of people that was favoured during rhe "democratization" process.
No sane person can expect Afghanistan to rebuild over night after 43 years of war and occupation. It takes time for country to rebuild, it takes decades in fact.
Agree. And regaining their freedom is just the starting point. Afghans need to grow as a peaceful society, and it may need some years. As they were in a state of war for more than 40 years. And it needs time to change people's mindsets.
When I heard that they sell their excess firearms to buy food, I think it is a good development. History proves that letting civilians hold firearms in their daily lives will lead to chaos. People will prefer to use violence over talking. So, I hope they can export as many as civilian-owned firearms as soon as possible, to stabilize their security sooner.
Not much can be bulit on religious fundamentalism
@@vasvas8914 Not religious, Islamic fundamentalism
@@anupamtiwari5587 Islam is not a religion?
Well they need to create high ways across there country otherwise no development will takes place, they are not like Saudi Arabia which has lots of Oil money.
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@@zacharytracy3797 this is undoubtably a lawsuit and a half waiting to happen
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That's why historians are needed.
May I add _When the staving go on hunger strike few will notice_
Afghanistan is the strongest example of why you never bite the hand that feeds you. Afghanistan had a chance to willingly join the modern world with an unprecedented amount of financial support from the US. Yet they chose to not bend the knee and did not actively fight against Theocracy. Now they are getting their just desserts.
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Afghanistan is not very centralized and will always face competing interests and ideologies.
They face many challenges, just take the population growth, totally out of control, they went from 12 million people in 1990 to to almost 41 million people today. Un predict they will hit 65 million within the next 30 years. Close to 23 million people - 55 % of the Afghan population - suffer from hunger and 8.7 million have less than one meal per day.
@@larsstougaard7097 I don't think that their population will go up much further. They can't feed themselves currently. The UN always assumes that poor countries will constantly receive aid from the West and that there is an unlimited supply of food in the world. Both of these assumptions are unrealistic and very dated.
All the best.
@@ivancho5854 agree 👍
@@larsstougaard7097 lmao. Maybe stop breeding then? Imagine breeding like rabbits and then moan about "hunger"
@@larsstougaard7097 how does population growth relate with the inefficiency of the government I don't understand why population growth is the topic when we know India and other states in Africa Asia in South America even USA have a tremendous population growth not every time population growth create problems what is the main and the only problem is absence of an efficient government and long war with foreign powers
"Jihadist groups provoked by Modi's Hindu Nationalist agenda"
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>Does Afghanistan have a future?
All nations and cultures have a future, one way or another. Whether or not it'll be a desirable one is the real question.
Ashraf Ghani: "I would rather die than leave"
Also Ashraf Ghani: *Flees Afghanistan before the Fall of Kabul*
hes no leader hes an American agent
that's because he was a coward puppet leader, you think the usa would put someone who cared in the nation.
The whole "war on terror" was a disaster that:
A) destabilized much of the middle east and much of africa
B) created far more terror groups that they destroyed
C) led to massive amounts of civilian deaths and many warcrimes done by nato and other groups
D) wasted us citizen's tax dollars and the entire funds of many invaded nations
We should pull out of every nation we invaded and deal with whoever wins in their nations. Puppet governments can't survive by themselves and we have no right to murder thousands because their rules say to cover a woman's hair.
All we did is make more enemies and create worse terror groups, I would rather we made deals with saddam then cause isis.
He was a fraudster who came to power through fraud, a con man, who sabotaged the state and security forces from within and concentrated most of his efforts in undermining the possibility of resistance against the Taliban so that he can hand power over to Taliban easily.
@@Ghurshah Huh... Turns out he was a coward after all.
@@TheStarcoMarco
He is the most shameless lowlife to be born in Afghanistan. Just days ago, as part of programs on one year since the 15th August 2021 fall of Kabul, Ghani was interviewed by Freed Zakaria of CNN. In that interview Ghani claimed he is an honourable man with his integrity intact, whilst he lied over and over to visible embarrassment of Fareed Zakaria
0:23 : "Meanwhile, President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul mere days after stating he would rather die than leave." 💀
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Pashtun = Taliban
Ashraf Ghani = Pashtun
@@problem4643 so?
The fact that Afghanistan is a landlocked country with no access to a sea puts it at a massive disadvantage because they require permissions from another country for 100% of foreign trade. This is just one of many barriers that they have to overcome to advance.
Iran trains Taliban soldiers and sends them to Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine?
I've discussed a lot with Afghan friends over the years. Let's start with the obvious: the current centralized state doesn't work. Then the second obvious thing: we don't want to break down Afghanistan and attach the parts to neighboring countries.
So what remains? Prior to the Taliban takeover, we had 20 years to implement a better system. Better than the highly centralized state, that would only work in a country with relatively uniform population (language, culture, religion). Such a fragmented country can't work as a centralized state. You need something that's decentralized, with a balance between states and federal power. Good models for Afghanistan would have been the Malaysian federation, where individual states can decide to vote more stringent civil laws, always respecting federal guidelines. Or the canton model in Switzerland. That way, you can manage different language laws at the state level and have official federal languages. You can also have different religious accommodations at the state level (for example, observing a day off for one of the prophets in areas with majority shia population).
Afghanistan has been a centralized state for hundreds of years. It's afghanistan itself that does not work. Pashtun domination, religious conflict, tribal/family power struggles, it's been a mess since the Durani days.
Still with the "we"? Not year made it clear: It is none of your effing business.....
"observing a day off for one of the prophets in areas with majority shia population..." what does that mean? xD
@@markmcelroy1872 Afghanistan being a "centralized state for hundreds of years" is questionable. The centralization of Afghanistan didn't start taking place until the early 1900s. Before then, large parts of it were semi-autonomous or autonomous, ruled by various warlords and Princes.
@@thehumanoddity Sure, I agree that that word "centralized" might be the wrong word. But it's not a decentralized state either, it's just an ineffective one. Even during the American occupation large areas were autonomous or semi-autonomous. In general there is a weak king and a bunch of warlords running around acting against his authority- unlike say the United States which has real decentralized governance.
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"the future of afghanistan has not been written, but the first draft leaves a lot to be desired" holy shittt🔥🔥
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is it just me or are you not supper sympathetic to problems in Afghanistan? i can not help but feel ...if they did not want Taliban rule then why did they not fight? and if they did then... is this not what they were expecting?
@@johney3734 This is one of the outcomes of masses manipulation, they decide but they are not aware of the consequences, there are no national dialogue.
I am sympathetic only to children, the parents are (poorly) choosing for them. Then again, nothing we can do.
They don't accept international law, only religious law. The only thing we can do is to not accept them in the international community.
But that opens the question, should we turn a blind eye to their suffering? Have we the right to interfere?
What the fuck are you guys talking about?
@@BBBrasil i like that comment.. i would say, yes we must turn a blind eye to there suffering as NO we have no right to interfere.. the people have self determination and can chose there own destiny.. if they chose starvation and oppression who are we to tell them they can not chose that
I'm from Afghanistan but tbh this might just be another phase of Afghan history of when one political group rules for 10 - 20 years. Taliban collapse and another group emerges
Honestly, I don't see why y'all don't just break up as a country. Clearly y'all don't want to be united, just split
Your channel is an embarrassment. I feel sorry for the normal afghans who are ashamed by whatever you got going on in your channel. Go and make your people proud instead of embarrassing them.
@@saintjames1995 if they split then Afghans dont get Free Money/aid. They want to get free money from the whole world
@@hassanrabbaniboyka
Yeaaah...
Let's stop giving them aid. We have our own problems, rivals, and interests.
@@saintjames1995 so what next after a split? You think if with NATO assistance the country couldnt be freed from extremist elements, the smaller countries could do on their own? They would be all taken and controlled by their neighbors and strengthen them. Beside Afghans hating foreign rule, the other super powers wouldnt like that to happen.
Very eloquently delivered, with quite sound logic on the trajectory of AFG in the near future. Was a very in retesting watch!
"Over time, Washington's policy could backfire"
A story as old as Washington.
Replace 'could' with 'will inevitably' and you're spot on. American foreign policy seems to be "replace today's problem with tomorrow's disaster."
@@stevenkies802 this is boomer mentality in general, for any issue
I would like to argue that if not America, the rest of the world will. Come on, the moniker of "Graveyard of Empires" tells us that this is business as usual.
@@adissentingopinion848 Absolutely agree. The US just has a very rich track record in such things. Certainly not exclusive to them though.
@@anon2427 Not really. Every generation has its good and bad. Short-sighted thinking is universal throughout history.
How 9/11 victims can sue Afghan citizens is beyond me...
No, the Afghan central bank... That's not citizens money... It's basicly every country on the earths money that Afghan central bank has recieved in foreign aid rofl!
Good luck getting money from taliban hahahah!
It doesn’t mean they will get it, it’s just set aside if they win
@@theswedenguy4647 The average afghan have been exploited with that money.
The central bank itself has exploited the whole country and put the state in debt upwards to hundred of millions, forget the poor average citizen that is paying interest on small loans.
The whole central bank system is a crime, every nation that has allowed FED and central banks have lost their soverignity.
I don't genuinely think this is a good idea just to make that clear, but the gall of people to sue a nation where we have killed so many innocent people is just too much. The ego of some people.
Because that's how powerful American citizens are compared to the people the US exploits overseas. That's literally the disparity, right there.
Now look at how untouchable the wealthiest Americans are, and a sort of... pyramid, starts to form. 😆
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That Lawsuit against the Afghan Central Bank is moronic. With all sympathy.
Maybe so. Now imagine it's an election year in the US (which, it is.) and President Biden hands the Afghan Central Bank 7 billion - or even 3.5. Guess how that will play in US news and what it does to his party in the election. Not saying it's right, just real.
Also, without close oversight, most of that money will vanish in a black hole of corruption. Again, not right, but real. A lot of it did WITH oversight.
Nothing is easy in Afghanistan. It's been made into hell on earth and its neighbors have a vested interest in keeping it weak and troubled.
Agree about the lawsuit though.
It's a coping mechanism.
They've destroyed 2 countries and still aren't content. Now they want to starve citizens. Pathetic. 911 is the cow they keep milking
By that measure Afghan citizens have the right to sue the U.S central bank for having their country occupied for 20 years.
@@Halcon_Sierreno i think they are still trying to sue Russia for their invasion (which resulted in american forces in afghanistan)
Another great closing statement "when the starving go on hunger strike nobody will notice".
Good work script writers
Sirvan had quite a few gems in this one
He's had many very good lines, but I totally disagree with this one. Revolutions happen when the starving run out of the little they have. Let them eat cake, and so on..
@@janbo8331 I see your point, but I don't see people power happening in Afghanistan. All that matters there is who has guns and fighters willing to fight. Starving, unarmed people have no chance
@@janbo8331 the people of zimbabwe, soviet union, haiti, somalia, yemen and Cuba would disagree, unarmerd starving civilians have no chance against an army
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The "country" should have been divided between its neighbours a long time ago
It shouldn't have been drawn or divided in the first place.
Bruh how tf 9/11 victims's families even given to have share on afghan central bank's money in the first place?
It's all American money to start with.
@愛 Yes.
@@gvibration1 Not all alone American money, but many countries around the worlds money including my own (Sweden) Not sure how big the list is. Afghanistan only make money from selling illicit drugs to ruin other countries. I dont even understand how they can get ANY foreign aid with being the biggest supplier of opiates?!?!
@@gvibration1 common afghan civilian's deposit of their hard earned money stolen by America *
@@Harisfzal The US poured huge $$$$, trillions in. The money in Afghanistan was American, Poppies or Taliban.
Afghanistan is like Mount Everest, you can climb up there for a brief moment but you wouldn’t want to settle there.
@علي ياسر In their dreams,
When in reality its quite the opposite.
They don't have the strength nor the brains to be the masters of anyone aside from the weak people amongst themselves.
You can stop daydreaming and wake up to reality
Avoid that area. Cut them off from the rest of the world.
@علي ياسر Who are aryans?
Afghans?
@علي ياسر Also Aryans are not Irans
Irans are persians
Aryans are europeans or Indo-Aryans which are indian ethnicities
@علي ياسر Also which aryan made all those you mentioned slves?
Afghans? If you really mean Afghans I suggest you wake up to reality
I read that in Afghan culture, they have a code where no man has power over another man in how he does things. As a result, the Afghan government has no real power over the countryside where it's far away from capital and traditional values are still held. It's ironic because many Americans are all for limited government, but US tried to impose a "democratic" government in a place where people favor no government.
Source: Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan - by Aaron B. O'Connell
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I’m from Pakistan kpk,I want my Afghan brothers to rebuild now that war is over,70,000 people in my country died due to drone attacks by USA on Pashtun villages along the border.no more empires,no more wars
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Me a German who wants to create an empire that spans from Mexico to Argentina crowning myself emperor, while also getting compeltely rid of the cartels and destroying most of the corrupt ridden society.
Corruption is like a disease it needs to be eliminated, prison doe not help with corruption it just gives it leeway. If Central and South America want to be free from corruption (or atleast have it in a very reduced form since completely removing corruption is impossible due to human nature) then it must be eliminated but that itself would be very hard to achieve. Anyways this is mostly just a crazy pipe dream that will most likely never come to pass.
Also ofocurse one important thing I need to mention is that the leader/Emperor is the servant of the people he is ruling over, that is the responsibility that a ruler carries and they must not abuse it, you need to give away any enjoyment you had in life to make sure all your subjects are doing well, as their well being comes before yours the leader's which would've been me I guess the Emperor.
Yes I know I am very delusional.
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5:32 That's 3 lies in rapid succession. 1: "The complicity of the Taliban in 9/11 is yet to be established." This is an obvious lie.
2: "The central bank is independent of the state appartus and the Taliban" Flagrant lie, a Taliban terrorist was appointed to control the central bank.
3: "The money in the bank belongs to ordinary Afghans" Questionable, as almost all of that money came from aid from the U.S.
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Well channel is from turkey so he doesn't tell about state sponsored terrorism of pakistan or that turkey itself is in FATF grey list like in this he said pakistan killed taliban and pakistani associates but actually they killed couple of talibani and dozens of citizen including some children i dont how they were associating with taliban and he says in kashmir jihadist are active because of hindu nationalist government but jihadist are terrorizing kashmir from 70s when pakistan lost 4th war from india later when they lost 5th one they onmy now fund terrorists
Yeah
excellent analysis, i was glued to the screen during the whole time all thanks to your animations and an immaculately structured video, looking forward to more videos like this one :)))
UN has no shame to report of the hunger crisis while not pressuring USA to lift the economic sanctions!!!!
The USA hasn’t relaxed its economic sanctions on Cuba or Venezuela and that’s decades old. Can you imagine what America will do to Afghanistan? They dishonored the empire and will suffer for it. Oldest playbook in human history.
I think current regime has one plus point i.e. the simplicity and trivial methods of governance, which limit govt spending to much lower ebb. Plus tight control over mass corruption would definitely bring more revenues.
If we see on north of Afg, we have monarch running states, western side has a theocracy and east has a rag tag democracy. So I think neighbours would accept any system if it brings stability in the region and start economic activities like intra regional trades. Afg has a bright future with more Diplomatic relations with neighbours and two super powers. West should work on drawing the red lines and convey them to current regime linking with economic aid and defreezing assets.
Freezing the assets of Afghans is a complicated issue. It's a reality that letting the money flow would strengthen the Taliban, and effectively allow an enemy to exploit that money for its own use.
Letting Americans sue for 9/11 damages is a huge mistake and sets a dangerous precedent. Wars exist above the fallacy that the world is fair. It's not, we shouldn't try to force civil concepts onto an uncivil system.
While I think allowing suet for those funds is wrong, since the funds aren't directly tied to the terrorists... I feel you are also quite wrong in equating a terror attack on non-military targets to be 'warfare'.
I cannot imagine a society in which this is legal. They are stealing money from an *Afghan central bank* to compensate victims of an *Arab terrorist organisation*
This is the country that claims to "uphold international law". No matter what you think of the Taliban, this is unprecedented.
The bloodsucking insurance companies are behind the lawsuit. You're not allowed to mention that in court because it can prejudice a judge/jury against the plaintiff.... but we're free to talk about it here.
@@Raptorx911 How about drone striking civilians? Isn't that a terror attack? That's what caused 40% of the civilian casualties in the war.
Americans should be suing Saudi's they have money and had majority of 9-11 conspirators
“When the starving go on hunger strike few will notice.”
Your analysis are absolutely excellent thank you very much
terrific report Shirvan
Although this video seemed promising at first it fails to mention one major issue Afghanistan has faced in its entire history of roughly 200 years and that is the countrys ethnic issue which can and I believe will lead into a major ethnic war similar to rewanda and the many genocides that took place their. If you're not aware of this then please do read up on this if the situation of Aghanistan interests you. As a Afghanistani I can confirm that their are potential risks for an ethnic conflict and the one of the main reason you mentioned in the beginning of the video - CENTRALISATION.
One of the biggest issues Afghanistan has faced is centralisation. This started from the time of Abdur Rahman, one of the many kings or Afghanistan which sold many of its coethnic to the British Empire creating the Durrand Line and committed genocide against Uzbeks (racially different to pashtuns and a threat to pashtun dominance as Uzbeks have had a history of controlling the lands now known as Afghanistan) and Hazara's (racially the same as Uzbeks but are religiously a shia group). One of Abdur Rahmans motivations were to centralise a deeply conservative and ethnically diverse nation under the Pashtun dominance. The Pashtun is an ethnic group in Afghanistan that lived along side other ethnic groups such as the Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Hazara, Balouch, Aymaq, Kyrgyz, Qizilbash, Pashai, Arab, Nuristani. Since the creation of Afghanistan and the nation state model imposed on the native people of Afghanistan the Pashtun believe that they are the sole rulers of Afghanistan. And in the process it has created a history for itself (Where in many cases they consider themselves as the original inhabitants of the land and everyone else as immigrants) to justify its continued genocide of Hazaras, and now Tajiks and the many land grabbing against Hazaras(Dai kundi, Balkhab, Behsud - search these locations for articles), Tajiks(Panjshir, Badakhshan - search these locations for articles), Uzbeks & Turkmen (Faryab - search these locations for articles) that is happening under the watch and support of the taliban which is also a pashtun group. Unfortunantly there has been no population count of the country so we cannot say for certain if which is the majority ethnic group and which is the minority because the ruling pashtun elite feared they'd lose control politically and this would be humiliating to them as the nation's very name is Afghan - istan or translated to land of the Afghans(pashtuns) which non pashtuns would refer to Pastuns as Awghan and the latinised version is Afghan.
I understand I mentioned many different aspects of this issue in an unstructured way. But I hope CaspianReport does make a video on the ethnic issues and the recent revival of the Northern Alliance (which the leaders of the group has come back again except for Ahmad shah massoud which was assassinated by Al Qaeda) and the possible ethnic war that is looming over the taliban and their involvement of worsening the ethnic tension even though they claim to be men of god but have been caught committing crimes such as paedophilia, rape, assault on innocent people and genocide of other ethnic groups and making way for pashtun settlers from pakistan.
I understand that I am from Afghanistan and I could be biased but I welcome anyone interested to take a look at these situations I've mentioned.
I appreciate your unique insight.
Thank you for this, unknownsiner. Best wishes, Luke
Best wishes for you and your people. Thanks for your explaination
Taliban isn’t just pashtun you dummy, have you traveled to Afghanistan in recent years and spoken to any taliban?
I think you need to learn what genocide actually means
I always assumed once the Taliban regained control they would simply start killing each in a power struggle among the old hardliners/new cliques since without a common enemy in the Americans to fight, what else would they do
Give it time, it's inevitable.
American wet dreams.
they are human too, the same naturalistic values. Human tend to seek peace and avoid uncertainty. So, for sure their goal is a stable government, while, engaging their enemies
My bet was mainly on Pakistan's ISI pulling the strings from now on. In the background also the Chinese. I think this time they will crack the nut.
@@the-quintessenz Pakistan has its own problems with their domestic Taliban who have been killing PK soldiers.
Thanks for information. 👍
The intro map is lit...
“For when the hungry goes on hunger strike , few will notice “ you killin it my man
Fun fact: Afganistan has always been a geopolitical nightmare. It was the British that drew the borders of Afganistan, with little thought to how this nation would function.
On top of that, the Soviets attempted to influence the nation... with no appreciable effect. Then, we, the West went in and spent years "nation building" Again, no appreciable effect.
Perhaps, we just let Afgani's figure it out on their own this time.
Yes, the Taliban are not good people. But there are others in Afganistan who oppose them. Let them figure it out and then we all can create a civil programs to help them.
But we should continue with humanitarian aid.
How will giving humanitarian aid hit the people who need it and not pocketed by the government who will carry on oppressing women ?
WTF bro, you guys gave Taliban from pistol to Anti-Aircraft gun and expecting people to be against Taliban in Afghanistan ? You might don't know but systematic genocide of Tajik & Hazara is going on these days.
And you are talking about humanitarian aid, bro all aids are taken by Taliban none of them are distributed to Tajiks & Hazaras
@@paulcooper5200 through covert means or dare I say the un I know we love to rag on the un but if they actually put in any semblance of effort and don't just give up immediately then the un peacekeepers (in theory) should be able to distribute the aid to the people who need it. This was attempted before in bosnia and Somalia but the un just never gave enough effort but it is a method that could work. But I do understand that it is a major Longshot that foreign aid given to Afghanistan would ever actually reach the people who need it.
You first lied to Afghanistan government by making deal with Taliban behind their back, then become surprised why they demoralised. Usa is a world clown.
The British never took Afghanistan?
great report
Nice video, Sire. May your reign be long and prosperous.
"Does Afganistan have a future?"
It's a wrong question. Let's put it this way:
"Will Afganistan ever have a future?"😔
If they start selling Opium and other natural resources then they have.
Kinda same.
It is important to understand that afghanis dont think of themselves as Afghanistanis. They dont think which country they are from. They think of tribes and leaders. They will survive as they have survived for 100s of years. But how will US survive without their coke. Thats the question.
I think you downplayed the Taliban's ban on Opium. There are reports of entire fields being sladhrd and burned. My understanding of the law is that already planted fields may be farmed to the completion of the growing season, but new and future fields cannot be planted. Thats why there are still so many poppy fields around, the Taliban promised not to touch them for the next year. We'll see how they treat poppy farmers next year. Hopefully they'll use the fields for substistence farming instead, thereby fixing the food crisis.
It's called annihilating competition.
it all depends on which Warlord is responsible for the poppy fields, whether he is money driven or religious fanatic
Some speculate they will not actually outlaw it. There has been an increase in price after the announcement, and the Taliban are profiting. If they go back on it, they will keep profiting.
The USA and Taliban are both creating the perfect conditions for economic calamity, it's actually ridiculous. Hopefully that can turn it into food farms but who knows.
He straight up lied.. "Taliban allowed it and US spent 8.5bn to eradicate it!!" pure propaganda
I'm sure people felt the same about Iraq after Saddam, and well.... Iraq is still roughly the same as it was left decades ago after Saddam.
Where ever you find Islam, you find oppression, poverty and violence.
Excellent commentary, thank you. Your observations are very accurate unfortunately.
The main issue from the point of view of the US is there are bigger fish to fry than Afghanistan. And l imagine they are pretty relaxed about other nations filling the void since every single attempt to make the country serve foreign interests has resulted in colossal failure. They red line is hosting terrorist groups who attack the US. Other than that I cannot see them being too interested. And while the Taliban might do a few deals with China, they are not interested in economic development so there are limits.
You can do it easily....just pulla south america....bring money to the state to let the machines in and pay the a percentage. Lete the afghans fight afgahans.
America tried letting afgans fight afgans and it lasted about 3 months
One big plus for the US getting out of Afghanistan is that they can stop pretending to be friends with Pakistan. That will definitely help Indian-American relations.
What do you mean by economic development?If it's McDonald's and Netflix indeed the Taliban don't care about a power.But if misery is ousted, poverty they have never been against it is not because they have an austere mentality that they are against certain primary needs
@@le_draffar5370 Most governments aim to grow their economy to improve the standard of living of their citizens. The Taliban are only interested in religious observance so the material living conditions of the people is not something they are greatly concerned with other alleviation of the poorest. Afghanistan has significant natural resources but it’s not a country western companies will invest in. Whether the Taliban could tolerate the way China likes to do things or whether they are particularly interested is a moot point
Finally a video on Afghanistan after all this time 😄 been waiting for it!
What’s up Broski 🦋.
Great episode as always. A tip to the graphics producer -- it's good to keep the surrounding state names and borders visible at all times on the map (like the old graphics did). This time, for example, only Afghanistan was for the most part. This loses context and educational value. Keeping neighbouring states names and borders visible lets a viewer think along, and learn some geography too!
"NEWS: USA starves Millions!"
Well, yes Friendly Newspaper,
but why do you tell me as if i dont know 3/3 Strongest Countrys
are legit Evil-Empires?
After what happened to both the USSR and the USA in Afghanistan, I think from now on superpowers' interventions in Afghanistan will consist solely of flying in, bombing whoever is causing trouble, and flying out again. China _might_ have a chance of being able to enact real regime change in Afghanistan, but the way they would do it is the same way they did it in Xinjiang and Tibet -- and I just don't think Afghanistan is valuable enough for China to go to such lengths.
If China tried that in Afghanistan, you can add China to the graveyard of empires.
The difference tough, is that the USSR fell apart after their defeat of Afghanistan while the US was pulling out for years and only 8000 soldiers remained in Afghanistan until the end.
Plus, the Himalayan mountains pose a logistics challenge for any sort of occupation. Roads and rail between the two are extremely few, very underdeveloped, and easy targets for ambush from surrounding mountains.
@@thundereagle4130 The USSR fell more due to the economic problems in the failed reform era by gorbachov, than by the afghanistan war itself that was secondary.
But the soviets did manage to gracefully exit (no panic airport scene), and to leave behind a functionnal goverment in Kabul that lasted more than 3 years by itself with no further soviet or foreign aid at all (instead of the almost immediate house of cards collapse of the US installed one).
@@thundereagle4130 but at the end both USSR and USA withdrawal without achieving their aim isn't it?
thank you for reporting on this situation.
America wasn't defeated or humiliated. We left.
Keep telling yourself that buddy
Fantastic video.
Concise overview as always. Thanks!
You didn't mention Indian Owned Chabahar port in India which India has given Afghanistan access too for global trade.
U meant Iran
he didnt even mention indias help to afghanistan in terms of wheat and covid vaccines, but was very promt here 11:57
He didn't even mentioned that India has established diplomatic presence in Kabul recently . The embassy is currently there to watch on many projects , the delivery of shipments of vaccines,food,medicines . Basically Indian NSA's back channel talks with Sirajuddin Haqqani meant to bypass Doha, US and also Influence Pakistani Taliban to increase intensity of their attacks in FATA region on Pak Army. Or maybe I am speculating too much and stable Neighborhood is all what we need.
Next time, could you include sources in your description box?
It will have a future long as we all stay the fuck out of it.
and mind our own freaking business.
Beautiful work, Shirvan.
The only thing I would add is that 20 years ago women
were treated very poorly, and today they are at the same place.
Bush's nation building: How to take a small garbage dump
and turn it into a big garbage dump.
No, we keep them around to prepare food.
That's why we are all so ridiculously fat.
And to protect our dogs(0-23 seconds):
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Not allowing women to get school education is what infuriates me the most. Human rights >> your fucking religion.
They are not treated poorly. Thats just CIA propaganda..The American did phyoscoligal warfare to justify their invasion
Basicly make taliban look bad so invasion = good
Now as A person who knows the culture as i am from it. We are highly traditonal people. Men are the breadwinners in the family who provide money to their family and women help and raise children in the houses
Thats the majority of afghanistan. Aslo in afghanistan women cover up with Bukra. Free mxing and talking to your not related to is taboo
Thanks Omar. When good men talk, the world becomes
a better place.
Should Afghanistan be considered a country at this point? From what I know ever since the monarchy collapse most ethnic groups don't consider themselves afghans. It's more of a unorganized country similar to feudalism or confederation of tribes rather than a modern nation.
#Talistan!!! Lol
So Afghanistan is just like Somalia?
People always say that but they forget that outside the rural tribes, the cities and larger towns still see themselves as Afghan. Government influence isn't all encompassing like it is in other countries, instead it's more like a service in which it's provided when the locals want it but other than that, they go back to their villages and live their lives as usual. America tried to create a centralized government with it's head in Kabul, not realizing that Kabul is just the main powerbroker between cities like Mazar, Herat and Kandahar.
So yea, it is a nation and no ethnic group want's to break it up, they just want to be the ones in charge.
@@thekaiser1156 > So yea, it is a nation and no ethnic group want's to break it up, they just want to be the ones in charge.
So in other words, a game of thrones
@@pierrecurie More a game of Criminals and Warlords.
EXCELLENT and about damn time! 👀
Every place has a future, whether that future is bright or dark all depends.
The future is up to the Afghan people. They have to stop blaming others for their situation. Afghanistan is jam packed with mineral wealth and hydrocarbons. But that won't help them if they prefer endless clan wars.
Other countries need to keep their hands off the country, there will always be proxy civil war and conflict in the region until those things are stopped.
Whi knows maybe China or Pakistan are next in the line to throwing their hands there.
How about US sanction
While this video is insightful on the current geopolitical situation for Afghanistan, I think it ignores the ongoing civil war between the Taliban, the National Resistance Front (NRF), Islamic State - Khorasan Province (ISKP), and other militant groups.
Spot on mate
The NRF is getting whooped by taliban lmao and ISIS K is a joke
@@abovethelaw4417 Yeah, and? The Taliban was getting whupped for the better part of 20 years. That would've continued had a certain orange buffoon not negotiated such an absurd "deal" with them while excluding the Afghani government. Not that the US was exactly good for Afghanistan. . While women did enjoy better rights, corruption was ignored or even encouraged.
Either way, once the US abandoned the Afghani government, the Taliban took over. . a pile of shit. Unless ISIS K and NRF are eliminated, there's always the chance they will surge when the Taliban gets distracted with something else. Like famine and poverty.
this video ignored many other details such as role india is playing
@@ashish282 yep terrorist India is disturbing afghan peace
Amazing video
Whereʻs the list of sources? It would be beneficial for my senior thesis
Edinburgh is pronounced "ed in bruh". We get lazy with our place names and just start removing sounds until it becomes short enough to shout drunkenly at strangers on the street.
Bruh moment
ok
Thank you Shirvan, your work is much appreciated! Keep up the great content! Cheers!
First he tell usa lose the afganistan war but he forgets usa controls afganistan for 22 years and if Taliban really want afganistan why Taliban wait for 22 years to attack afganistan why they attack afganistan after usa army withdrawal from afganistan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 but I know he never going answer...
@@debasismohanty1952 lol you need to connect your brain before typing comments you know?
"A state monopoly on violence" that is worth every word.
Afghanistan will be come a powerful country before the mid of this century.
Mark my word
tf are you talking?
Explain...
The fact that Taliban is offering to pay for ruzzian imports in barter is just hilarious
The amount of time the Taliban government survives I believe depends mainly on how much autonomy it will allow its vassals to have & how the revenue from the Chinese mining project is distributed
That is a good point. If the resources of the land is actually allowed to benefit the people to some extent they could become a stable power in Afghanistan.
And if there is any people on earth that needs some peace and prosperity it's the Afghans
@@tally3018 the only people who will truly benefit are various Warlords and Chieftains the question is which ones
Certain Warlords are left out then start assembling their War bands
3:20 centralisation was not the issue, it was state capacity
As far as people are there, there is hope!
Quite a fitting ad considering Lord Miles’s adventures in Afghanistan lol
Amazing content, always a pleasure. Can you make a video covering the WEF. I'm sure your viewers would find it interesting. Thanks!
so is no one going to talk about the taliban resistance in panshir? where the northern alliance has been resisting the taliban since the us left?
Afghanistan is a big country with plenty of natural resources like minerals and oil, if Afghanistan will be properly managed by those who are running that country and make oil and mineral harvesting as an Afghanistan state business, while the borrow money first from international financing institutions or from World Bank then use that money for equipment procurement for oil drilling equipments and oil storage facilities and also mineral harvesting equipments and once they achieve that refrain from borrowing money to avoid debt trap or any compromise agreements with other countries and never redirect their money earned from revenues for corruption nor for terrorist activities to increase their gold reserves and money reserves, then they can purchase radars and anti aircraft missiles to protect their country from sabotage from air and from invasion, but they have to open their country for international economic relation and diplomacy that can benefit their country but avoid over compromise agreements from greedy countries and improve the living condition of their people by providing their basic needs to prevent civil war or uprising, then Afghanistan can progress as a country.
Hahahahahahaha said much easier than done. The people in Afghanistan are incapable of such a feat. With US help for over a decade we tried to create such a stable govt without success you think they can do it on they’re own? I don’t think so, every single person I talked to that’s been there says the same thing. That country is doomed to go back to what it was before. I’m for the safety of the west it’s better to leave it to its own devices and sanction it as a terrorist state until it can prove otherwise. The old way of thinking that conceding and maybe they’ll change is a failed concept. It didn’t work with China and it won’t work with Afghanistan. while monitoring any potential danger it causes. They think they won a war with the US. Isolate the place don’t allow anything to come and go. I don’t care how much of a disaster it becomes for those living there. Those people will smile with one face and will stab you in the back the next. You think the US should just accept they took over. War is waged in many ways little boy. They haven’t won yet. They still can’t do anything without daddy US permission.
@@adinota3 America isn’t the daddy anymore. China is becoming the new boss and will eventually pass USA economy and luckily Afghanistan has a border with China. China can easily help Afghanistan with its natural resources. Because they have the hardest working people on the planet.
Well said bro💯👏👏👏
Thinking of Afghanistan as a country is something of a fallacy since their are too many separate ideologies that violently oppose each other rather, you should think of it as a non-state.
This is not true. Only the west is ignorant enough believe this crap as a coping mechanism. Before the Soviet invasion Afghanistan was very much united and not as ideological or extremist. It has very little to do with Afghan geography(which is similar to Switzerland) and culture. It has everything to do with the barbarism of the west.
It's a country mainly because the borders with its neighbors exist. Basically the neighboring countries have elected not to move their borders.
Afghanistan is a country with no nation. The US, in its ignorance, presumed that a nation would naturally follow the state, when the reverse is true. States are downstream from the nation.
Afghani Badlands would be a fitting name.
Yep, its likely Afghanistan will collapse into Pashtunistan in the South and East, and smaller fiefdoms outside of that. Some of the border areas may even choose to join their neighboring countries
As ususal, amazing video !
Keep up the excellent work and may God bless you always !
Hahaha Established Titles awesome be right there
Thanks
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I love your videos. Could you please cite your sources in the description? Or include a link to your sources?
Could someone tell me what is the name of the music,?
Every Caspian Report has at least one memorable line of wisdom. "History doesn't cease when the cameras stop rolling". 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Peter Zeihan made a very apt observations
Basically you can't really make a nation state of modern notion out of Afghanistan
Basically the west broke up what was an omelet that was the Afghanistan state then and tried to make a very expensive souffle out of it
while not disagreeing with this , Zeihan has an extemely basic understanding of pretty much everything, if i were you i would'nt quote him, he isn't held in high regard by anyone, he is like the pulp fiction (books) of geopolitical commentary, simplistic, he doesn't understand the nuances, and complexities and has an extremely orthodox and predictable mind. I don't dislike him as such, he is just 2 basic
Thank you for watching and "sagol" - nice way to end an interesting report. FYI "sagol" translated from Azerbaijani as - stay healthy!
Can you make a video about the current situation in Mali?
Your point that Jihadists attack Kashmir because they are provoked by Modi government's Hindu nationalist policy is just a lie or propaganda.
Jihadists are attacking Kashmir since 1947 when tribal attacked there.
And modern terrorism is there since 1990s.
It has decreased since 2014 after coming of Modi govt.
Bro you need to take care of the facts and do more research.
And you didn't mentions about India's role and concerns in Afghanistan. We are one of the largest developmental partners of Afghanistan ( provide large quantities of food and medicines).
Bro the research was low in this video.. I hope you will do better in next one.
By the way love your content. Keep it up
Modi made India a Nazi inspired fascist state that accelerated the 70 year genocide in Kashmir, but, it will be liberated soon....