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Lol, would you really rather I be as pedantic and change it to “the US supported radical extremist within the mujahideen that would become known as the taliban?”

"The US supported the Mujahedeen against Soviet invasion, including radical religious extremists. Years later, after the Soviets left the country and Afghanistan had spent half a decade quarreling amongst themselves, the Taliban, a radical extremist organization formed in the mid-90s, would draw on religious extremism in the country to leverage into success over the fragmented Mujahedeen warlords in the Afghan government. This apparently means that the US supported the Taliban."

Yes, the mujahedeen had an internal crisis and split into mainly two different factions, as I said.

"split into mainly two different factions"

Again, you don't seem to actually be grasping how the Afghan civil wars in the 90s played out.

Lol, what do you think they just suddenly appeared from nowhere

Did I say that? I explicitly noted the strengthening of religious radicalism in the country, but reading comprehension is apparently not your strong point, considering the wiki excerpt you posted.

They and other important leaders around Kandahar formed the Taliban from the mujahedeen fighters loyal to them.

They literally recruited from religious schools, largely not mujahedeen veterans, most of whom that were still interested in fighting were already serving under various warlords. Fuck's sake, does "Mujahedeen" just mean "Religious Afghan" to you or something?

It literally isn’t… And yes the mujahedeen outside the northern alliance were just the future Taliban.

Jesus fucking Christ.

"The Soviet invasion and the Iranian Revolution not only led national uprisings but also the importation of foreign radical Muslims to Afghanistan.

Bruh, are you just continually quoting snippets of wikipedia here without actually reading them?

The mujahideen leaders were charismatic figures with dyadic ties to followers.. In many cases military and political leaders replaced the tribal leadership; at times the religious leadership was strengthened; often the religious combined with the political leadership. Followers selected their local leaders on the basis of personal choice and precedence among regions, sects, ethnic groups or tribes, but the major leaders rose to prominence through their ties to outsiders who controlled the resources of money and arms.

With the support of foreign aid, the mujahideen were ultimately successful in their jihad to drive out the Soviet forces, but not in their attempts to construct a political alternative to govern Afghanistan after their victory. Throughout the war, the mujahideen were never fully able to replace traditional structures with a modern political system based on Islam. Most mujahideen commanders either used traditional patterns of power, becoming the new khans, or sought to adapt modern political structures to the traditional society. In time the prominent leaders accumulated wealth and power and, in contrast to the past, wealth became a determining factor in the delineation of power at all levels."

Literally none of that supports your point, other than the outsiders poured in arms and money into Afghanistan, which was never contested. Jesus fucking Christ.

Lol, dude. Did you learn Afghan history from watching Rambo or something? All of this is fairly well known.

"All of this is fairly well known"

Coming from someone who:

• Asserted the Taliban were Saudi, not Pakistani in origin
• Thinks the Taliban existed in the 80s and fought the Soviets
• Does not understand the difference between the factions outside of the Northern Alliance and the Taliban
• Thinks that religious radicalism was new to Afghanistan in the 80s rather than something that had been long-established in the country since at least the 19th century
• Apparently is incapable of reading the wiki articles they copy and paste

lmao

We're done here.