Testing a Hexbear-like thread for sharing and commenting on news. Might become a weekly thing if people like it 👀
Rules:
- Include sources in (at least) every top-level comment
- No clearly fake stories
- That’s it for now
- Xibucks arrive on the third Sunday of every month
What even is the point? Do the taliban actually think they can go in the offensive against Iran? I really don’t get what’s the plan here
I’m skeptical(?) about the whole thing. I saw the story break, but as nobody had mentioned it on Lemmygrad, I did some digging.
At the time, the only sources were the AP, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Liberty and a couple of others. So I dismissed the narrative as propaganda. If there is a conflict over the water, it’s not going to be resolved by a skirmish ffs.
I’m not saying the skirmish didn’t happen – it probably did. Two people were killed, apparently, one from either side.
Curious how this is happening after the US ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan. I wonder what military hardware ‘had to be’ abandoned in that withdrawal. Call me a conspiracy theorist but doesn’t the US have a history of clandestine support for the Taliban/brave Mujahedeen warriors? I’ll wait for the evidence before I’m confident, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the CIA is behind this in one way or another. They’re pissed off that Iran and Saudi Arabia are turning eastwards, together.