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Hooverx@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

ISIS-K Is Waging a New War in Afghanistan—This Time Against China

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ISIS-K Is Waging a New War in Afghanistan—This Time Against China

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Hooverx@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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The Afghanistan arm of the Islamic State is targeting Chinese nationals in a bid to “avenge” Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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    • ex-ISIS chief appointed as commander of US-backed militia

    • US provides air support to ISIS against Syrian army

    • ISIS condemns Hamas (real)

    • Israel’s Intelligence Chief, Herzi Halevy: “We will do everything to make sure ISIS does not lose in Syria.”

    • UN Report: Israel in Regular Contact with Syrian Rebels including ISIS

    • In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA

    And now attacks on Russia and China. US is doing a shit job at hiding it.

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      You need to use better sources. I see a number of untrustworthy sites here, and just a Reddit post (entirely unreliable source). Also seeing a lot of straw man arguments in what you’re saying.

      Try to have some nuance; the world isn’t divided into two clean sides, and multiple parties can have hostile stances towards each other at the same time. That does not mean “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” if that enemy of your enemy is also attacking you. For example, the US killed ISIS-K’s leader back in 2015; not a friendly maneuver. (Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10N21L/ )

      Now, Russia has actually done a lot to earn this terror group’s ire; we have the history of the Tzar’s trying to conquer Afghanistan, the Soviet Afghan War that took 10 years in the 1980’s and was Russia’s Vietnam with a massive civilian death-toll and the destruction of vast amounts of infrastructure, the wars and oppression in Chechnya, the heavy support with Russian boots on the ground for Assad in the Syrian Civil War against the civilian rebels, the ongoing extreme violence and repression of Muslims by Prighozin’s Africa Corps, and the now the forced mobilization of Russia’s ethnic minorities (many who are Muslims from Central Asia) to fight in their morally bankrupt genocide against Ukraine. China has plenty of pressure points with ISIS-K too; chiefly the ongoing Uighur genocide, hence the attacks against Chinese officials in Afghanistan.

      Turns out if you do decades of terrorism against a people they might do it to you, regardless of if your country is considered “East” or “West”.

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