Breaking: another dirtbag authoritarian regime takes its own people hostage and demands concessions to end their suffering
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1479441427629318147
A few months ago the mighty Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was holding victory parades with all the military equipment that blithering idiot Joe Biden gave them. Now they're beggars that can't feed their own people. Beggar regimes should not be given a shred of legitimacy.
The civilized world needs to have a long, painful discussion about how massive humanitarian aid can sustain and empower evil regimes. Every dollar spent caring for the abused and ignored population by outsiders is a dollar the rulers can spend on weapons, terrorism, and luxuries.
Of course, since we ARE the civilized world, we don't want to turn a blind eye to millions of sick and hungry people. Scumbags like the Taliban ruthlessly exploit this, offloading all the responsibilities of rule to compassionate foreigners so they can enjoy the perks.
Our compassion relieves the pressure that might otherwise topple those regimes from within. Taliban leaders richly deserve to end up swinging from lampposts in Kabul, but as long as outsiders step in to feed their people, the revolution never happens.
If the Taliban wants the civilized world to feed, medicate, and shelter the Afghan population, maybe they can start by handing all of their wanted terrorist leaders over to us for prosecution. Make our demands big and humiliating.
But then another problem is that we spent the last few decades enriching an evil power, China, that offers support to the scummiest regimes without human rights demands. Their alternative New World Order doesn't give a damn about suffering and oppressed peoples.
Corrupt regimes, terrorist regimes, kleptocracies... we end up supporting them all, including the degenerate Afghan government we midwifed and propped up for 20 years before the Taliban takeover. We keep alleviating all the pressures that might lead to some improvement.
The entire international system became a rigged game where the cheaters prosper and everyone else pays the bills. And of course, along the way we nourished a huge, parasitic international bureaucracy interested in "managing" problems, not solving them.
Fixing that system won't be easy, but we've got to do something to correct a decaying "international order" that doesn't bring much order, only domination. We keep getting the worst because we subsidize it. We'll never get the best unless we demand it. /end
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