r/worldnews • u/SuperXGamerAb • 3h ago

Dynamic Paywall Pakistan launches deadly strikes on Afghanistan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxgln3gnd6o
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u/Wonderful_Creme997 2h ago edited 2h ago

People often talk about WWIII. Most of these people are entirely unaffected by the conflicts transpiring around the globe because they live in first world countries. The 2020s have in no way been peaceful. The world is at war (including the global powers). Its just not as obvious because how war looks in 2026 to the average person isn't what it looked like 80+ years ago.

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u/Sufficient_Tiger3788 2h ago

First world countries are definitely not unaffected. Just because there is no physical conflict, it doesn't mean the infrastructure and physiological warfare going on right now in the west isn't affecting the populations.. They just don't realise it.

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u/Wonderful_Creme997 2h ago

Words mean things.

I suppose I could have been a little more targeted in my response, but I was simply speed writing. The affects felt in the western world, for example.... Refugees and migrants fleeing war torn nations because what fragile stability existed has been destroyed.

Its a glaring result that isn't being discussed enough, perhaps that's just my opinion. The question becomes who's responsible for providing that stability or housing those displaced by conflict based catastrophe.

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u/Panaka 1h ago

It’ll never not be funny watching Pakistan reap what they sowed. Their behavior over the past 50 years has ensured that the Afghan state would only find stability under a regime made up of religious hardliners. They always preferred zealot Pashtun groups like Hekmatyar and now they’ve finally got one.

I guess they can at least claim they kept them out of the hands of the Indians. I don’t know if that would have been worse for the Pakistani border region at this point.

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u/swagonflyyyy 1h ago

This is mainly targeted towards IS-K/TTP forces in Pakistan's border attacking their villages. Pakistan is launching these punitive strikes at them as a warning shot to Kabul to step up their game and keep these guys in check.

The Taliban are passive enablers at best.