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Yes, I am definitely sure it was all Amerikkka's fault, Afghanistan definitely hasn't always been a dirt poor country for the past 200 years and also definitely didn't spent most of the 70s and all of the 80s and 90s locked in brutal civil wars, and definitely has a united national culture that made running a functional national government easy.
Also I love the part where we were colonizing Afghanistan and dictating their internal policies. God, it's so great that we thought Islam was so amazing that we made it a crime to apostatize from it. Wait, or are we supposed to be the Christian Crusaders imposing our faith on Muslim countries? I can never keep all the things we're accused of doing straight.
If you think the economic situation in Afghanistan is due to the US... well, that's about the understanding of Afghanistan's historical and present circumstances I expect from someone who treats international politics like a religion and says "Well, I don't agree with the Taliban closing schools for women and 'other things', BUT... have you considered, America bad?"
You can keep turning in circles and do adhoms but the fact remains that America ruined Afghanistan the last 20 years. Before that it was the Russians.
The current Afghanistan has been independent for a very little time and has inherited tonnes of problems from America ruining the country. The sanctions and aid restrictions also don't help this.
I'm not sure why you'd even begin to disagree with these facts but seeing as your entire comment doesn't address then I can only guess.
In 2000 the Afghani was worth 75,000 to 1 USD. During ISAF occupation it was fixed at 50 to 1. It is now at 70 to 1 and dropping. Let's stick to one argument at a time rather than playing the whataboutism game. You said the USA destroyed their economy, yet the evidence strongly says otherwise. Before 2001, Afghanistan was the second poorest country in the world. When ISAF pulled out it was ranked at about 40 (I say 'about' because it was still growing and changing faster and the rankings were uptated). In the short time of Taliban rule they have dropped back down to sub 33 with exact number still to be determined. (The sub 33 ranking is important because there are only 33 countries on the UN "least developed countries" list).
I would spend time debating topics like this with educated people and those that are open minded, but you do not seem like you fit either group. Do not expect a reply.
Please don't reply anymore.
His point is that America boosted the economy by turning the place into a giant Opium farm and now a huge part of the Afghan population are crackheads.
Now the Taliban has outlawed the American drug cartels they don't make money from it indeed. Not that they're very profitable anymore since Chinese synthetic fentanyl has taken over the drug market.
There's an inconsistency here. You cannot ruin what it already ruined. If the USSR ruined them, then the US kept it in that state, but did not cause the ruination itself. The only other possibility is that the USSR ruined them, then they recovered, then the US ruined them again.
Things were already bad before the US got involved. Infant mortality was extremely high. That rate actually went down during the US occupation. The world isn't so simple that the US is to blame for every issue. I wish it were, because that would create a simple solution to every problem.
The sad fact is that some places are fucked up by no real fault of any nation, but by regional warlords and religious extremism. And it behooves us to look critically at these things so we can identify possible solutions.
The place was ruined up after the first war with Russia, then America turned the place into a giant opium farm which does generate revenue but also a whole lot of cartel problems. People here don't seem to want to admit it but basically the entire Afghan economy under America ran on drugs https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-world
America also prevented the nation from developing by instating boy raping pedo warlords as police and giving them guns to terrorize the citizens with.
There was some aid from Unicef and stuff which isn't bad, but all in all the reason the economy is in shambles now since America added almost nothing of real value to the country and prevented it from developing itself.
Fair enough then, but I think your viewpoint might be better described as "America kept them in ruin" instead of "America ruined them". Semantics though, I'll admit.