Thread by @HNadim87

Past one month I’ve come across mostly fiction & propaganda writing on #Afghanistan.

Here is my response to another such fiction writing published by Bloomberg with totally tone deaf & historical inaccuracies. [Thread]
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

1. Imagine invading a foreign country with no war plan & then occupying it for 20 years wasting 2 trillion dollars sponsoring corruption & warlords.

Then having the audacity to blame a neighbor for all your failures that advised to the contrary.

2. How many times does it take to repeat a lie for it become an established truth? This $33b dollar US aid only funded the US contractors & consultants at the expense of $150b Pakistan suffered.

Since US likes honesty, the USG owes Pakistan a good $120b if we go by the numbers.

3. News flash for editors at Bloomberg, the US-PAK relations for last 70 years have been narrowly focused on security & transactional pivoted around US short term interests.

But ofcourse your lazy research & intellect on the subject presents this as ground breaking “policy”.

4. Blackmailing Pakistan with a threat of forcing an economic collapse of Afghanistan says less about Pakistan’s behavior & more about inhumane & deeply colonial mindset of the Western powers. But don’t let humanity come in the way to your talking points.

Conclusion: These propaganda pieces are not accidental & are carefully curated talking points pushed as “news”.

The only real enemy the US is facing is its own lies, confirmation bias & hypocrisy.

Plz excuse my tone, as a scholar, I find such intellectual dishonesty repulsive