• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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        How many senior Taliban members are still alive from those days? The organisation persists, most of the leadership didn’t.

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            No, but they can certainly kill the Ayatollahs, and I don’t think they’re willing to die for the cause.

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                  The leaders know their time is running out (especially Chamenei, which is an old man by now), and I sincerely believe that in his perspective it is much more favourable to go out on the prospect of being worshipped by his followers for a long time to come instead of doing a Saddam.

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      Oh yeah America really taught them a lesson by, checks notes, giving Taliban control of Afghanistan, after pouring millions of dollars and ending the lives of thousands of Afghani and Americans