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Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb scene, “Are we the baddies?”. With friends like these … etc.
And China already licking its chops over minerals in Afghanistan. And presumably to draft the Taliban in to help them suppress Uygurs in Xinjiang. Last time around the Talibs weren’t at all kind to minorities even putatively Muslim ones.
As Beijing says “We welcome this”, not yet knowing — not caring one presumes — if Taliban redux will still run with its enlightened policies of the 90s: beheading folks in the public square, stoning women for having sex, cutting hands and feet (on opposite sides!) off bread thieves.
