TheImmortal
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Well , this ensure Afghanistan remain weak and doesn't become a threat for us ... so lets them be ...Just your friendly neighborhood Taliban we were told would be such a beacon of hope to society—you know as long as you arent a women or haven’t advanced past the Renaissance period of human history
Afghanistan's Taliban order women to cover up head to toe
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. It was...www.yahoo.com
what @TheImmortal is missing about the Afghanistan situation vis-a-vis Iran is that as of today, THINGS ARE DIFFERENT - Taliban are too weak to attack Iran, and they are MORE DEPENDENT ON Iran today than ever. why? well who else can they "rely on"? Not Pakistan, because Pakistan has played dirty and used Taliban as cannon fodder for its US politics in Afghanistan, and not US, because US hates that Taliban forced their retreat from Afghanistan, and Afghanistan being broke and a recovering war nation means it needs any helpful supporting neighbor to help it get back on its feet, and as of today, thats China and Iran! Beef with Iran means Afghanistan will lack affordable gas and oil, food, transit routes, intelligence and military equipment, all kinds of things.The end.Well , this ensure Afghanistan remain weak and doesn't become a threat for us ... so lets them be ...
I'll blame the Iranian cinema industry not dealing with such epic story.
Busy Political day
The problem with that capitalist system is that it eventually runs its course and needs a reset because all the capital has acclimated into the hands of the few, and it is no longer a free market competition. The system would then need to blow up and start again and let the Pareto distribution run its course. We are reaching the later stages it seems. No more American dream.
In our lifetime we could witness the fall of Capitalism—the premier economic model that has powered modern human history.
A model that had inherent flaws that led to widening income inequality and destroyed the ability for working class to have a “livable wage”. Lack of ownership of assets and perpetual debt on middle class lead to social economic factors of declining child birth.
what happens when a capitalistic country that:
A) relies on stable or increasing young labor force
B) consumption of products by said labor force to produce most of GDP
Suddenly no longer has a sufficient amount of childbirths to produce such a labor force?
Answer? It likely collapses. We have seen highly advanced civilizations “disappear” (Mayans) in the past.
The countries that notice this (China, US) are moving full pace to automate (artificial intelligence) as much of their economy as possible. But that only solves the A problem (size of labor force needed). It doesn’t fix the other problem that is equally as important...a large population that consumes goods to power GDP.
This is a pressing issue affecting most if not all the countries in the world. I have talked about it in the past.
A country that doesn’t produce enough children will run into economic growth problems and eventually collapse as it slowly becomes a failed state.
I would argue that what you describe is not failure of the "free market" but capitalism functioning as it is intended. The purpose of capitalism is capital accumulation. Naturally those with the most capital (capital previously acquired through methods of primitive accumulation such as feudalism, enclosure, and colonialism) will subequently be able to accumulate more and more capital - it will never be distributed evenly. Capitalism does "reset" in a sense when the economy inevitably enters a depression every once in a while. The problem is that these resets are becoming more frequent since the 90s and the unfortunate effect of capitalism in crisis is that it leads to fascism, as it did in Germany and Italy before and will be the ultimate fate of the US as well.The problem with that capitalist system is that it eventually runs its course and needs a reset because all the capital has acclimated into the hands of the few, and it is no longer a free market competition. The system would then need to blow up and start again and let the Pareto distribution run its course. We are reaching the later stages it seems. No more American dream.
“A feminist one at that”?
Your post implies that if it was a man’s rights being negatively impacted then there would grounds for intervention? At the very least it’s poorly worded to make it seem like you think women’s rights are trivial affairs to worry about. At worst, well.....let’s not go there.
Your admiration for “low security threat” that emanates from Taliban rule is high. But the more they crack down on women (who you may or may not care about) and on the youth, the more you are going to see an exodus of Afghans to Iran’s borders and Pakistanis borders. The more refugees who will try to enter Iran. Which again puts a strain on Iran’s limited resources. This is why Iran wants an inclusive government in Afghanistan and stability and basic human rights.
Taliban went on a PR spree saying how 2022 is not 1998 and now they have supposedly evolved and moderated. I and others were very skeptical of this. Others weren’t.
Well it appears Taliban think they can take Afghanistan back to 1998 and the fact is they cannot. Afghan society has drastically changed in that 20 years. It’s like taking Iraq back to Saddam like rule. This only going to lead to further destabilization. ISIS will be able to exploit this fractionalization in society to conduct more attacks and grow. They did this well in terrorist held areas of Syria.
Now you are correct what happens in another country should be the affairs of that country....to an extent. Except Iran helps the oppressed around the Middle East (Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Bahrain). Afghanistan is no different. Their people are being repressed, but as long as it’s not by a Western backed agent country it seems you say we should look the other way. Even in some hypocritical world if that were true, what happens in Afghanistan has a direct bearing on Iran’s borders for better or for worse.
You think refugee crisis is bad now, just wait till next winter with wheat prices soaring around the world and Taliban not able to provide to the entire country.
If true, I take this as a positive development for iran and it allies.