How Afghanistan Became War-Torn | Afghan History
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Afghanistan is known for war. But there was a time when that wasn’t the case. The first 8 decades of the 20th century saw it being a relatively peaceful state that was making steady progress towards modernising. Under the watchful eye of its monarchy, Afghanistan was developing its infrastructure and working towards becoming an active member of the international community. The political modernisation of the country gained significant momentum during the long reign of King Zahir Shah from the 1930s to the 1970s. In its desire to bring the country up to speed with the 20th century, the royal family’s modernisation efforts had a number of unintended consequences that would see Afghanistan become embroiled in Cold War politics and subsequently thrown into violent chaos. The Soviet invasion in the 1980s undid much of the progress that had been made up until that point and left the country destroyed and war-torn.
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Early 20th Century Afghan History
4:35 Early Musahibans & WWII
13:03 Post-WWII Political Modernisation & Pashtunistan
19:43 Daud's Decade and Aggressive Modernisation
24:28 Constitutional Decade
29:43 Daud's Coup & Presidency
33:25 Afghan Communists Takeover & Soviet Decision to Invade
40:29 Early Stage of Soviet Invasion
48:05 Mujahideen Get Foreign Assistance
55:00 Who Were The Mujahideen?
58:47 Soviets Defeated & Aftermath
If you had to pick the most important reason for why Afghanistan Went From “Modernising” to “War-Torn”, what would it be? Modern History Playlist: kzhead.info/channel/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz6goEJlQ1zh6KkbeBWZ2pP.html
government-funded drug production, from both sides during the cold war (CIA and ISIS)
USSR invasion
Islam.
America funding radical Islamist factions and the USSR invasion that followed.
Not a difficult question... which countries went to war with them? What were their military budgets?
As a historian, I’m stoked to find a well produced, intelligent, and entertaining history channel focused on the Middle East. It’s a subject that I’m extremely lacking unfortunately.
We are actually central Asian , but nevertheless I’m glad you are interested to know the history of Afghanistan
@@KahramanEafghanistan I was meaning the channel as a whole, not just Afghanistan. I get what you’re saying though. Apologies for the confusion.
Thank you for making this documentary about my country. Its so hard to get through the things that happened to the afghan people. An amazing video from beginning to the end. Continue the great work brother.
Appreciate the kind words Bilal, plenty of Afghan history content coming up!
Wouldnt things have been better ifnl the afghan royal family remained in power....I mean there would have been to soviet invasion....
This was an amazing documentary experience. So glad I stumbled onto this channel. Thank you, as a westerner that is a humble student of history I really appreciate you taking the time to educate.
Excellent content, thank you for your efforts.
Much appreciated!
Thanks for making this
Took me a while to find a good video that wasn't just an over simplified American history of Afghanistan. Great vid 👍
More Afghan content coming soon!
Hey Hikma History, thanks for doing my country and I have been noticing you do a lot of Afghanistan history videos. Thanks a lot, you produce great videos for us to learn, I will try to watch your videos everytime, Great History Teaching by the way! This has to be the best Afghanistan History Coverage
He is actually from Afghanistan, he mentions it in a video I seen months ago, if I do remember correctly.
Yeah I think he's Afghan.
This content is mind blowing! Great job
Thank you, that's very nice of you to say!
Brilliantly told. Thank you so much 🙏
My homeland has suffered so much , inshallah we will have peace soon
it has achieved peace. especially compared to the 20 years of occupation prior.
@@hamishmcgloin4979 yes I agree it is much better now but we still have to iron out a few things
Excellent stuff you got going, love from the Lowlands🇳🇱
This channel deserves way more subscribers. Hikma History is awesome!
Appreciate you!
@Hikma History It's me who appreciates you, sir! Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos.
Now on my third hour of watching this channel after a mention on Casual Historian's Caliph series. Awesome channel man.
Thanks! Plenty of great content coming this year
Thank you for this very illuminating discussion of modern Afghan history!
You should had written overlaying text on the video so that one would remember what you are talking about and could keep trace of the long story in a much chronological order. Further, putting photos from the exact same meeting/truce/situation could make the video more understandable. BTW its one of the good history vodeos about Afghanistan. 😊
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Oh thanks Mohammed!
Great vlog! A few notes: A) Abdul Khaleq was the offspring of a servant of the Charkhi family & his actions were solely for revenge on his master. B) Nadir Shah's - known as Shah e Shahid - full name Mohammad Nadir Khan. Brothers Mohammad Hashem Khan and Shah Mahmoud Khan. C) W/Zallmian was a thought child of Doud Khan - being present at its inception. One major issue not covered was that during the ten years of Doud Khans' prime ministership - for the first time in Afghan History, students were sent to the USSR & Eastern Europe - the birth of the communist movement. D) The Pashtonistan Issue was solely a Doud Khan issue; King M. Zahir Shah was not at all a proponent of this issue. E) The US also spent Millions in various programs not just in Helmand - Khandahar Airport, the Kabul Khandahar Heart Road...etc F) All the upheaval during the Decade of Democracy was led by the Doud Khan-backed Communists - due to the 7th Article of the New Constitution: No member of the Royal family may stand for public office. G) You mentioned Dupree and showed a clip of a British documentary in (1972-3) It states Doud Khan's republic is so close to Moscow that it is hard to tell where the policies were coming from. I) Women were given the right to vote and work in Doud Khans' decade as prime minister - not the communist era. Two add numbers to his vote if the constitution had not been changed in 1964.
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Impressive you know all that in such detail.
@@Garbeaux. Thank you. I am very kean on history.
This is amazing. Thanks for the history
You are somehow full of it.
I have to say brother that I really enjoy your blogs, as a Christian I find both Christian and Muslim bloggers very biased regarding their understanding of history through a rather low resolution Lense and world views but I actually found you to be very balanced and centerist. I loved your story of the history of Lebanon and actually telling the truth that quite a few Muslims even emirs converted to Christianity, something that most Muslims find it discusting lies, also Christians converting to Islam such as Seljuk and his Turk followers. Keep telling the truth. Godbless
3:34 Prince Amanullah Kahn (1919 - 1929). 4:35 Nadir Shah (1929 - 1933) assassinated by high school student in 1933. 5:09 Zahir Shah (1933 - ) succeeded his father at age of 19.
very good interesting doc. hopefully Afghanistan recovers and become great nation again
Thanks Zain!
I was fortunate to meet both the King and Masud on their last day a live in Kabul. I was taken by the King and also meet Sardar Waly I was very impressed by him wow, what an honor
This gives the illusion that Afganistán was some paradise, those “modernizing” pictures were only a small fragment of the population. Most lived in the same poverty of today.
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the country was on the right track until the late 70s.
@@zainmudassir2964 the people have to be on the same page as the government and that wasn’t happening in Afghanistan
Not that small, they were really like that back then
If communists hadn't decided to usurp power in that country, it would had have been much better than what it is.
Afganistan was a great country ,, sad story today ,,, but i still pray that it prosper and modernize to make life easy for all Afgans
Is it? People are just dying to get in and immigrate there for it’s freedoms, opportunities, and desirable climate? Get real. Few people wanna live there who’ve seen better. Which is running water, free speech and worship, and electricity
Can you give me the sources you used in this video, I’m doing A research about the history of Afghanistan and I would like to use the sources
Email me and I'll hook you up!
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@@HikmaHistoryI’ve send you an email.
Men I love it, how you spell all those places name or subjects name.
There is no such a thing as modern it's all about culture. Progress has nothing to do with clothing. Real progress comes with industry and business and promotion of ones own knowledge and education. Kabul was a very small city with one hundred thousand residents with one University with a few schools.
Agreed!
a social process based on modern education is likely also to be based on freedom of the individual. afghanistan will not become free as long as it stays away from freedom of the individual.
Rampant population growth in all those decades covered by the video is a main reason for all the problems. During all the war years the population grew, not only in Kabul but throughout the country. Kabul now has more than four million inhabitants. Also the ecological problems mentioned (bad harvest, drought, etc.) only could trigger political turmoil because of the huge population growth.
The word culture is a lie born of a racist ideology of separation/segregation !!
I think that if the USSR had not invaded Afghanistan. Afghanistan would’ve been better off today.
Of course
I think if starving people were given food, they would not be hungry.
@@mpforeverunlimited lol
No I think if the USA wouldn't have given all the weapons to some idiots and stayed out of the Afghanistan business, Afghanistan would have been much better
No brother. Maybe ALLAH wants to make them strong internally. After everything Afghanistan is the place on earth where real Shariah is implemented.
Analysis shows how disconnected the elite were from the common people aspirations it is sad to see how the elite tried to ignore the people
Its so interesting that a country having decades of upheaval is not uncommon in history
24:17 32:54 Noor Taraki & Hafizulah Amin must have looked to H.P. Lovecraft's Chthulu universe for inspiration in the design of their hyper-scary Khalq flag.
This is a good account of Afghan history, but one from the perspective of the westernized urban elite. It is the story of their attempt to "modernize" Afghanistan by centralizing power in their hands at the expense of the traditional culture of the culture and its largely rural population. The leaders you see in these photos don't even look Afghan.
They were Afghans spoke in pashto
Obviously to your lot (English and American) Islamists Terrorist backward lot are true looks of Mid East people ! The pro dominantly Aryan Real Afghans looklike as you don't like. Tahrika Taliban from cave depth of the earth is your Idealooks ! So much hatered for advancement and progress by educated people of None AngloAmerican World in particular born ones in Muslim countries !
@@rossib6974 islam is peace why blame the action of humanity to pure Islam of Deen
That’s not entirely true. The documentary mentions HOW the hastened modernization alienated people so it was slowed down. The entire thing is very accurate because the biggest struggle after independence from Britain for MOST countries was to establish themselves as sovereign nation that could not be overtaken by another country, mainly USA and Russia at that time. It led to coups and destabilization in many countries not just Afghanistan. It is not a westernized perspective but in fact a VERY good documentary from a GLOBAL perspective. Exact same thing happened in India when Nehru invited MIT among other institutions to establish IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) to propel India into modern sovereign country. This is by far the most accurate description that takes into account exactly why the decisions that were made were made from a GLOBAL perspective of how other countries were also seeking to stabilize themselves after independence from Britain but did not always account for changes that people far alienated from global society did not understand.
I'm pashtun it's shame for me living in quetta and calling myself a Pakistani actually we are afghans but what the Pakistani media shown us one side to us washing our minds to be Pakistani.. Live long our brave leaders amanullah khan, habibullah khan Zahir shah all of them sepcailly the brave leaders we have now manzoor pashtun, ali wazir and mohsin dawar in eastern pashtunistan still fighting with our enemies
You are a troll.stop fooling the world
@@selen7515 that's because part of pashtunistan is occupied by Pakistan! The Durrand line cuts pashtunistan, and now part of it occupied by Pakistan. From Peshawar to Quetta it's part of pashtunistan but occupied by Pakistan.. majority of people speak Pashto, not Urdu or Punjabi.
@Kaleb J the british empire continues in pakistan and parts of afghanistan. this region has no freedom movement, so continues as a colony. the british are free, and laughing in their graves.
@@akhil999in the British drew their lines and left ruining the lives of millions of people who live there right now.. India-Pakistan partition line, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Kurdistan in Iraq & Syria (Sykes Picot line), the Israel-Palestine problem, etc
My pashtoon brother salute to you We Afghans from the heart
salamualikum brother can you make a video regarding the(Pashtun GHILZAI tribe ) coz i have seen peaple getting confuse between the khalaj turkic tribe with Ghilazi/khilji pashtun tribe and also were the ruler of delhi sultanate Jalaluaddin and Alauaddin khilji pashtun s. i have seen people say that they were turk afghans how true is that
Definitely a topic for the future!
Alauddin Khalji was from Khalaj tribe not ghilzai :)
@@zyT175 Ghilzais are not same people with Khalajis but if you think they are that means Ghilzais are also Turkic just like Khalajis :)
@@zyT175 but the word Ghilji/Ghilzai is definitely Turkic origin
The narration is a bit slow, but it's not bad
Thanks for the feedback and I agree it is a bit slow.
@@HikmaHistory For your shorts I think not just the narration but the pacing itself should be faster aswell and you should put some subtitles on the screen. For shorts you have to cater to the short attention spans of the viewer, which is what these "tiktok" genre is for. I really hope your channel grows and I would like to see how it develops in the future
@@HikmaHistory it is not slow for those not already schooled in the political history between ww2 & the Soviet invasion. I thought I had a general awareness, I was wrong. I actually think the depth & scope of this subject, with such important analysis and overall flow of information you’ve already crystallized, might do well to break up into a series of videos. Make it slower 🙂 really tho, excellent work. I even took some notes! 🙏
Hope and pray that this country gets better leaders and others stay out of their business. All the best from America.
the wars are likely to continue, as china, pakistan, iran, india, will now be fighting it out in afghanistan even if the western countries stayed out.
Well I hope America stays out of Asia
@@alijamal9000 and Muslims and Europeans stay out of the world
From germany too.
Is Ali G the narrator?
Dawood didn't take the slow pace for modernization and it blew up in his face. Perfect example of easy come easy go.
Was monarchy better here or worst?
Veri complicated History, Big errors by political leaders drove the Afghan people to catastrophe....after .... catastrophe ...to nightmares....
TB is bad but , is this Hikmah ??? not having enough cloth is modernization?
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You're welcome
mmmmmm just in time I binge watched the wars vs GB and the USSR invasion
For record, Afghanistan is not Middle East. It’s Central Asia entirely.
Someday, and I hope to be alive long enough to see that day, Afghanistan will be a free, fair and prosperous place to live. With a strong democracy, and the right for all her people, no matter their race, religion or creed, to stand under the light of a land so full of culture and history. I have to believe that. I have to believe there's a light at the end of this tunnel.
Probably after Pakistan falls. I BELIEVE that maybe Afghanistan will restore the monarchy but with a different Shah to lead Afghanistan 🇦🇫 out of this rut.
Someday, but, right now, it seems that the day in which Afganistán becames a prosperous country is far far away
@@itsblitz4437 Yes return the Shah.
Democracy doesn't fit Afghani culture. Nor does it fit many non western countries.
@@patrickmunneke8348 The same was said about so many countries that today are democratic. Every country can have a democratic system, afghanistan did during the constitutional decade
Never forget the heroic actions of John Rambo
How can we forget!
When I heard 'support of freedom fighters is self defense' set off a bunch of dominos
Great video overall one thing though the child's toy mines is simply not true what refers to is these air scatterable mines, the actual purpose of them is to be difficult to detect as most minds are and were painted dark green to blend in with foliage the problem is in Afghanistan they were very visible and were mistaken for toys by children. The Soviets probably should not have been deploying these air scatterable mines at all, but they were not trying to specifically Target children.
Thanks for the correction John. I would say, however, that at some point the Soviet military command must've understood the mines' were viewed by the children as toys and were continued to be deployed regardless. I know that doesn't make child toy mines per say but if the consequence is the same, you can understand the confusion.
@@HikmaHistory if nothing else the story has been repeated so many times I don't even blame you for making a mistake, regardless of what the degree or another the Soviet command knew about the danger of mines, and frankly antipersonnel mines are a pretty despicable weapon in general and every country that employs them deserves to be condemned.
Russia should be tried in the Hague for war crimes for using toys as mines
@@MS-hx5sj they didn't tho
@@ninjadolphin01 yeah killing 3million people in a country of 17million is fine for you? May Ukraine destroy Russia and make it 20 countries. That's the only thing we can hope for.
Just saying it's link to their religion or rather how they interpret it. That's an over simplification but it really boils down to that
Yeah it went from having women with nicely trimmed legs on one corner of Kabul from the elite class of society; oh sorry "modernised". To getting taken over by a group of autocrats and war lords and was invaded by world superpowers. That's the abstract for their modern history
Thanks for for the video 23 years ago I digging for reading this now I wish this video came by before and now my nation has a lot stupid people and conducts are well because thinking funds will last has ever has they wish details wish this came by Sooner
I met Ahmad Shah Massoud in 1991 in Takhar Province while photographing the anti-Communist jihad. In my observation he was an amazing and honorable man. I was also in Loghar Province in 1983; during that time, the mujahideen there also stopped fighting in order to harvest their crops. The idea that a temporary, tactical cessation of fighting is unusual or somehow wrong is of course ridiculous. The Soviets had targeted and invaded Massoud's Panjshir Valley several times in the early 1980s (eventually a total of 9 full-scale incursions), Massoud used the cessation to reorganize and came back fighting again just as hard as ever. Unfortunately Massoud's tribal and factional rivals feel the need to distort his actions. If you want to read reminiscences of those who knew him best, Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader, by Marcela Grad is excellent. If you want to read a book by an impartial observer, To the Mountains, by Abdallah Anas, an Arab mujahed who knw many of the top Afghan leaders, is absolutely fascinating. The petty and false claims that Massoud was somehow corrupt ultimately just helps to prop up the narrative of anti-Islamic elements around the globe.
It wasn't just Western journalists who praised Massoud. The great Abdullah Azzam also praised him, after actually spending time with him, and realizing that the factionally-based lies about him were rubbish. Please read Azzam's son in law Abdullah Anas's book.
Short answer: US, USSR and the deep state Long answer: This video Keep it up bro well explained.
Thanks Hemant!
Don't forget Pakistan evil of evil.
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Now Afghanistan is new province of Pakistan
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21:20 President Dawd Khan once said that he like American cigarettes lit with soviet matches.
Russia never learns.
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Eu queria esse lenço dos afegãos.
33:32 according to Afghan sources there were 2,000 dead across the country due to the coup fighting.
The darkest period was the 40 years of zaher “kale”because he and his uncles were British agents. Davod khan was the only independent and countryman lover president of Afghanistan🇦🇫. But Khalq was the worst party.
a question is whether afghanistan, considering all realities, has a likelyhood of acheiving civilised systems of government. apparently not. it is meat to geopolitical wild predators. meat has no possibility of being safe in a forest.
With that being said: no predator has come searching for meat in Afghanistan and succeeded 🤷🏽♀️
The problem was that they decided to modernize their civil society along Western lines and modernize their military along Soviet lines. They sent their officers to be trained in Moscow at the Suverov Academy, apparently not knowing that part of their military education was heavy on communist ideology which created fanatics that would find conflict with both their traditional religious heritage as well as the westernized aspects of life that all of the students brought back with them from the West. The older, more religious parts of society could've handled the moderately westernized part of life easier than communism because it was strictly atheistic in a way that the west wasn't. Conflict sadly was inevitable.
in May 1974, in the wake of the East-Pakistan loss for Islamabad, the media blared with headlines : "Another Bangla-Desh brewing up" referring to the secessionists of Pashtunistan.
A country like afghanistan would maybe have a good development with a strong non corrupt honorable leader respecting the traditions.
It happened the same way as Vietnam was war torn.
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Afghanistan has been war torn throughout it's history and will continue for it's entire existence. Simply because of location.
Read to you bt Ali G
Ahmed Shah masood was never a fighter he was just opportunist to earn money and he did so.
I don't need to watch this too figure out the answer, they got a fresh shipment of democracy!!
Afganistan was a shithole waaay before the US invasion.
LOL best one ever! UK and USA still blessing others to this day. Sadly they'll ultimately pull the trigger like the Zionist's dream.. but NOT IN MY NAME!!! Fck NATO. Eternal neutrality for Austria! (that hope is dwindling though) NATO punish neutrality and peaceloving states with !!!dead-serious!!! sanctions THESE DAYS.
Actually, they got the typical asymmetric warfare of communists stoking revolution by poisoning politics and intentionally creating conflict and chaos to gain power… then it’s hell followed by deeper layers of hell and on and on in new iterations and facades.
The whole countries, one big cat box
Afghanistan could have been another Turkey. Modern and interesting.
I gotta say choosing suits as a sign of progress in the thumbnail is a poor choice.
You gotta look at it from my POV - if I design a thumbnail I need people to get what I'm saying within milliseconds. As Western-centric as the idea of equating suits to progress is, people nevertheless still equate the two.
@@HikmaHistory I understand what you mean but the problem is doing something like that reinforces a wrong idea inside a western-centric audience. It’s also a bit offensive to non-western audience that simply dress this way because they are proud of their local customs not because they have backward way of thinking.
@@mhmdrifaie1049 I get your point. My hope is that I bring in viewership with these "low" tactics knowing that my content is not "low". That way I achieve both aims - numbers and spreading well-researched knowledge.
What's wrong with suits ? Do you see the Japanese posing in kimono and samurai outfits ? Do you think a progressive Afghan govt would wear what the Taliban wears ?
@@jamieammar6131 Maybe they would. There's nothing that's automatically more "advanced" about a suit and tie. We just assume that's how it is because that's how the west has forced things to be.
The power craziness of Afghanistanians has ruined the civilisation of Afghanistan. Put Afghanistan in disaster zone for decades, just wanted to overthrow the Shah family government, who provide modern society’s standards of living with dignity. The king was overthrown, Afghanistanians lived in disgrace and inhumane conditions.
The only improvement on all levels including Education and equality of emmen was during Socialist era and Soviet occoupation .Before and after times speaks for itself as it does now .Poverty,Discrimination Oppression and Injustic
MY UNCLES WERE IN KHAD AND THE AFGHAN ARMY DURING THE 1980S
Shame ON you and your family.
@@saracen638 eat sh1t meg
So you might be in USA now, I mean American Afghan.
@@fahadullahkhan6967 UK !
@@fahadullahkhan6967 LANAT ba massoud LANAT ba gulbuddin 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Afghanistan was way ahead of other Muslim countries during its time and that’s a fact you can’t disprove.
Massoud was the sole and only honourable leader in the entire Afghan history, hated by chauvinists simply because of his Tajik entinicity.
Modernity is not neccessarily a good thing and change is not always for the better. Things like investment in modern science and technology are good things but things like promoting western clothing are silly. Traditional clothing, languages customs and religion are symbols of a nations history and culture and they should be preserved. Saudi Arabia is a perfect example of how to preserve culture and develop at the same time. It is highly developed economy yet everyone wears traditional clothing and follows religious laws. It is good to see that the Taliban is also promoting traditional clothing. The Shalwar Khameez looks way better than Western suits. Also, it is Important to note that there was a dark side to the "modernity" in Afghanistan. For example, during the King Amanullah period, anyone who opposed westernisation was punished harshly and reforms were forced down peoples throats. It was similar to what happened in Iran with Reza shah. That is was why Amanullah faced fierce rebellions from Afghan tribes and religious leaders like Habibullah Kalakani who eventually overthrew him. That being said, Ofcourse there are 2 extremes. I think it is best to follow the middle path. I believe the way forward for Muslim countries is to gradually promote relevant reforms which do not go against religion and traditions which are deeply rooted in these societies.
Spot on, everyone shouldn’t be forced to fit into the same shoe, because it doesn’t work. As long as we can cooperate and there is no animosity and fighting everyone should move at their own pace and do what works for them.
Saudi Arabia is a perfect counterexample for preserving culture while modernizing. The monarchy is only hanging on due to the immense wealth they distribute among the society: everyone has cushy oil jobs with no pressure. Everything menial is done by foreign workers. Young Saudis are extremely americanized in leisure, music, language, food, and even fashion. Architecture, transportation and urban planning is literally a carbon copy of the US. The only thing resembling cultural preservation is superficial dresscodes and draconian religious laws and punishments. All of Saudi's wealth is paid for by the west and will collapse once the need for hydrocarbons runs out.
Haha, Saudi..development. Give the amount of oil Saudi has to any nation. You can't develop with conservatism if you don't have oil, or you are extremely talented like the Iranians. Those who have accepted reforms, are in prosper. Turkey, Azerbaijan, Albania. Was never gonna work in Afghanistan anyway, for it's tribal mentality. Saudi is a poor poor example. Wish youtube had haha reaction.
@@Handle0108 Lol tell that to the Saudis who are having fun in Yemen.
@@jamieammar6131 “Give that amount of oil to any nation” Oh is that so? Tell that to all the corrupt and poverty stricken oil rich countries around the world. If you don’t like Saudi at least you have to commend them for some things, rather than making ridiculous claims and belittling people who are extremely successful, your jealousy can be felt from a mile away.
The British were never good people. My family left the island back in the 1780. I can't thank them enough.
Modern? You mean 'Corrupted' surely like Iran under the 'Shah' First explain what 'Modern' means before throwing it around for impressionable minds
correction....it was this and the american encouragement...
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Afghanistan was built on Hazarajat & Turkistan after Hazara uprising of 1890s
Not war torn Is protecting their land against unbelievers enemy how want to concur its Resources and Political & Diplomatically Control.. And they Succeeded....
Afghanistan is a prime example on why "Polices and Islam never should be mixed" - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Let them defend their freedom. Better than under Satan's control.
Personally I think Afghanistan was never set to succeed. From geographical barriers that prevent a centralized control, numerous minority groups with closer ties with neighbors, added by religious tension and foreign interventions. It’s kind of like Lebanon but maybe worse.
The people their have a mentality incompatible with any but their own kind
so did the swiss
This only happened after USSR withdrawal, prior to that, there was no group above the central government
Afghans were too cowardly to fight for their Freedom, unlike the Ukrainians who are fighting and dying for theirs right now.
Your idea of freedom and their idea of freedom is different. VERY DIFFERENT.
Russia will defeat the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
@@hiseverest9074 Ours is better.
Well,95% are in favour of Shari'a according to pew there.
@@wyattmcgee1 you can't force people to accept your idea of freedom and still hold to it. In the west we have the freedom to denounce Christianity and destroy our society. Over there they have the freedom to live their traditional way of life
Afghanistan, like most other Muslim nations, both Sunni and Shia operate, under a different set of rules, different codes of conduct. Family tribe, Clan. Their values are different much different. You can lose your life because you looked at a man’s daughter twice and they will do or say anything to save face.. any wise, European, or American, for that matter must stay the hell out of that place
Çok yaşa necibullah.
Bless the lion of Pansheer!
More like the cowards. They aligned with ISIS and are bombing all around Afghanistan killing innocent souls 🤦♂️
He was a cat. Signing cease fire with Russians is not the work of a lion.
@@MS-hx5sj Exactly 😂 He was a cat and France held his leash but he also obeyed anyone that threw him cat food (money) They say goats 🐐 walk on his grave now
@@DistantTravels exactly, the goats 🐐 walk on it and do other things as well.
Mujahid Click Soldier's lives on
Abdul khalig Hazara ❤️❤️❤️
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People are blaming Islam, but the US gave the bulk of its assistance to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who invited Osama BIn Laden.
US newspaper called him hero back in 80's.
So that's doesn't means islam is any better
@@toyotasupra174 Don't even comment on Islam in societies, when girls in non-Islamic, western countries want to open an only fans (as soon as they're 18) and married people go to night clubs lol.
You mean the ISI. Why blame Islam instead of the COMMUNIST AGITATORS TAKING ORDERS FROM THE KRELIM IN PRECEDING *DECADES* WITH THE GOAL OF FURTHERING INSTABILITY AND DECREASING THE VIABILITY OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AND ELECTIONS TO ACHIEVE cOmMuNisT ReVoLuTiOn
That durand line n the India Pakistan border are dumb n should’ve been done right
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Why?