Five-Step Afghanistan Intervention

Step 1: Fund mujahideen fighters to engage in guerilla warfare against the Soviet Union Step 2: Once the Soviet Union dissolves, overthrow the Insurgents and install your own proxy government Step 3: The mujahideen fighters become the Taliban Who's in control in Afghanistan? Taliban control Contested Step 4: The Taliban manage to take back control of most of the country Step 5: THE AUGUST 15TH INCIDENT Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Kabul Afghanistan Pakistan Herat Mazar-i-Sharif Jalalabad Kandahar

A five-panel political meme shows a simplified chain of events involving funding the mujahideen, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Taliban, and the Taliban retaking Afghanistan. The final panel shows an aircraft surrounded by people, referring to the August 15, 2021 evacuation incident at Kabul airport. The joke is a sarcastic summary of unintended consequences and foreign intervention. EN: A five-panel political meme shows a simplified chain of events involving funding the mujahideen, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Taliban, and the Taliban retaking Afghanistan. The final panel shows an aircraft surrounded by people, referring to the August 15, 2021 evacuation incident at Kabul airport. The joke is a sarcastic summary of unintended consequences and foreign intervention.

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