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Bucky

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5. I don't think there's a long line of countries eager to swoop into Afghanistan at the moment

Reply to joetheman (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 06:07 AM

Aug 2021

They seem pretty ungovernable.

The Taliban's affiliation can be bought, probably by China via Pakistan's sympathetic military leaders, but I don't think they're gonna let anyone tell them how to run their dictatorship. China's interest is probably mostly in keeping the Uyghurs unfunded by outsiders. And Pakistan's is mostly about keeping their border calm.

No one gives a shit about the Afghan people.

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So where is Pakistan in all this Afghanistan turmoil?? [View all] joetheman Aug 2021 OP

taking advantage of it's monster, as much as possible, elleng Aug 2021 #1

Glad to have increased influence over a region they view as a resource for generating RockRaven Aug 2021 #2

Extracting a bunch of people from Kabul unc70 Aug 2021 #3

Pakistan is in debt to China so........... And Russia doesn't have money to do much other than JI7 Aug 2021 #4

I don't think there's a long line of countries eager to swoop into Afghanistan at the moment Bucky Aug 2021 #5