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."

Lol, yes.

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

Sure..... Even though you've had to back track and largely agree with me.

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.

Yeah, you are largely agreeing with me that the radicalism suddenly increased, my claim with supporting sources was that the religious indoctrination was imported.

They literally recruited from religious schools,

Religious school created by radical sunnis with support from the US, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

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?

Lol, all the leaders of the Taliban were higher up mujahedeen. What are you talking about about?

Mujahedeen" just mean "Religious Afghan" to you or something?

Lol, my dude.... in pashtun it literally translates to -strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād'

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

Bruh, can you not remember my original claims?

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.

What are you contesting? Seems like the only thing you have a problem with is a pedantic dispute.....

Asserted the Taliban were Saudi, not Pakistani in origin

The religious extremism is Saudi, the Saudi also imported this extremism into Pakistan before Afghanistan...

Thinks the Taliban existed in the 80s and fought the Soviets

Again.... Another pedantic dispute.

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

Lol, making a lot of assertion with no evidence.

"By the 20th century, Islam made up as much as 99 percent of the population. The country's religious minorities such as Hindus and Jews did, however, enjoy "complete religious freedom" as of the early 1970s.[25] Men praying at the Blue Mosque (or Shrine of Ali) in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif The 1979 Soviet invasion in support of a communist government triggered a major intervention of religion into Afghan political conflict. The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1980–1987) was a secular state; Islam united the multi-ethnic political opposition."

We're done here.

Gladly. You are clearly a person incapable of admitting they were wrong.

[–] Eheran 2 points 1 week ago

"Lol, no"