Aka western sources lol
Afghan war killed 200k people and wounded normally 5x that number
According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the conflict killed 212,191 people.[2] The Cost of War project estimated in 2015 that the number who have died through indirect causes related to the war may be as high as 360,000 additional people based on a ratio of indirect to direct deaths in contemporary conflicts.[3]
Uppsala is a swedish source.
Cost of war is an american institute.
My UN and WHO sources are less “western” then yours.
But all you do is handpick the western sources you like to use and handwave all others. Biased.
But lets not stop there. It is not as if my other sources disagree with the 200k number.
Only that 200.000 over 20 years in a population of 30-40 millions is not that massive. And with most of the deaths caused by the taliban:
“According to The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the majority of civilian casualties were attributed to the Taliban and other anti-government elements each year, with the figure ranging from 61% to 80% depending on the year.”
We are talking about 3000-5000 a year?
And its not that afghan society was the pillar of peace before Nato.
It came out of the soviet invasion (2 million dead in 15 years) and afghan civil war (400.000 dead in 10 years).
Deaths due to conflict actually went down during Nato control….
Just the improvement in infant mortality meant that 30.000 more babies survived every year:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/806605/infant-mortality-in-afghanistan/
Maternal deathrate with births dropped 60% due to billions into healthcare as well.
Thats 15.000 mothers surviving every year.
80.000 more kids under 5 survived yearly thanks to billions in selective aid.
You do the math….
but somehow we need to believe your Western sources that American improved things lol. Damn man...hypocrites are the worst of all people and scum of the earth. They sell their mothers for $5 and say they are doing a good thing
Nato spent over 100 billion on development aid in afghanistan. Aside from also opening up the country for billions of UN and charity aid as well.
Free and open access to global development data
data.worldbank.org
Large increase in education rates as well.
The state of education in Afghanistan has significantly deteriorated since the Taliban takeover in 2021. The impact of the Taliban takeover...
borgenproject.org
Or here a middle eastern news outlet:
Disagreements between the international community and the Taliban threaten the education of millions of Afghan children.
www.aljazeera.com
just simple facts. I can post hundreds of these…..
so open your biased eyes.
A lot of mistakes were made in afghanistan but it was not “all bad”.
Development and country-building was a major public drive to even stay for so long in the bottomless pit that is afghanistan.