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[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is what USA wants ; chaos and instability

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do we make this still about the US even though they aren't one of the belligerents? Any chance you might one day look in the mirror?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Asim Munir, the current COAS and second ever self appointed field marshal of Pakistan's Army, spent the last couple of years basically shooting the country in the foot by deleting the democratically elected government, attempting to assasinate the former PM, jailing the former PM under false charges (of which the public hasn't seen since 2023), nuking the economy with IMF loans, and beating Israel to be the first to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

All while showing up to Washington in a private jet as much as Netanyahu.

This entire "war" with Afghanistan was an American request that he happily obliged to conduct. No one is buying it, which is one of the reasons why the US Consulate in Karachi was attacked by armed protestors over a week ago.

For all intents and purposes, you can just currently consider Pakistan a vassal state of the US, just like KSA or UAE.

[–] Encephalotrocity@feddit.online -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What does that have to do with the decisions the Prime Minister/President made to retaliate against Taliban terrorism? Pakistan has nukes and isn't a vassal of anybody. JFC anything to try and blame US to deflect from reality.