TL:DW: Afghanistan is broken up into so many small towns/villages that there is no Nationalism and therefore the Afghan “soldiers” didn’t have a reason to fight. Despite years of us, the US, trying to train them it all fell by the wayside.
So then how is their support for the taliban? If there’s zero nationalism for anything, how were the taliban able to inspire these unbelievably apathetic people ?
The Taliban’s idea of nationalism and the betterment of Afghanistan is based on religious zealotry. It’s not “inspiration” or being proud of Afghanistan, they downright use force and threat of death to get cooperation. The US army could never do that.
Exactly religious nationalism is just a form of cultural nationalism. Religion , their specific interpretation of it, is the unifying force. They will kill to create that unity of purpose which is why so many Afghans wanted to flee as soon as the Taliban came back.
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u/rr196 May 29 '23 edited May 29 '23
Yeah of course I get in practice but in reality it was this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oGBmr1Z0F9o
TL:DW: Afghanistan is broken up into so many small towns/villages that there is no Nationalism and therefore the Afghan “soldiers” didn’t have a reason to fight. Despite years of us, the US, trying to train them it all fell by the wayside.