• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        … it literally isn’t. The Taliban wasn’t a ‘splinter group’ of the Mujahedeen government, it was a largely Pakistani-funded and supported initiative whose even most embryonic form post-dates the entire Soviet-Afghan War in creating a paramilitary with the express purpose of overthrowing the previous Mujahedeen government (a goal in which it succeeded).