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ok so what am I missing here exactly, why do we care about what happens in Afghanistan? like I can understand people who served there feeling like it was pointless, and those with investments that would be affected... but why the rest of us? what's got everyone so upset?
appreciate all the responses thus far, this clearly isn't something I think about much so, this has been enlightening. war and geopolitics in the abstract is very different than the messy details lmao
is it like, a sense of impending doom due to the foreshadowed collapse of the neoliberal globalism project? is it that "America fucked up oh no"? like what's the big obvious thing I can't see