Mistake: I messed up the music credits at the end. Here are the songs I used: Guardians - Evan King Rallying The Defense - Per Kiilistofte What Are You Prepared to Sacrifice - Crysis 3 Soundtrack
hello gilliams, i would like to mention that although this isnt big enough to be shown on the map in June 2003 the Pakistan Frontier Corps "Marched 5 kilometres into Afghanistan and seized the village of "Ghulam Khan" in Afghanistan which is located at the southern point of Khost
Speeches by non-Americans would’ve been really cool for this video I think. It would’ve been interesting to hear maybe Brezhnev and both declarations of the Islamic emirate
It's impressive to see, that republic of Afghanistan held for so long even after USSR pulled out. Especially when you compare it to Americans as Afghanistan felt in less than a week.
Well, probably because USSR tried to put native afghani government in control - soviets only needed it to be communistic and subordinate of USSR. They weren't interested in keeping Afghanistan under direct control. So soviets actively trained afghani communistic forces and government and helped them with money and equipment - but that clearly wasn't enough so soviets actively used their own military since 1979, trying to keep everything under control. So when soviets pulled out, afghani government still fought for some time, even though lost eventually.
Excellent video. Though I feel it best viewed at 75% speed as the info and changes went by so fast. I appreciate that you show the entire series of conflicts that poor country has gone through for the past 40 years.
@99 Pakistan didn't start this civil war, you absolute buffoon It was initially an only Afghan civil war, which eventually led to the soviets intervening and America later intervening as well Pakistan was pulled into this war, since the Taliban/Tehrik-e-Taliban directly occupied parts of Pakistan, mainly the Swat Valley
@99 Thank you for at least trying to explain things despite the dumb shit thrown your way. I'm in no way qualified nor well-read enough to question the validity, but I do appreciate your efforts anyway in this thunderdome that is YT comment sections.
I'm from Pakistan. I have to say this is very accurately made, down to the events and geopolitical alignment of countries that neighbor Afghanistan. Good job!
If I could I'd have Bush answer for war crimes to set an example to other leaders not to invade other countries. Nothing was gained but over a hundred thousand dead civilians, millions of refugees and homeless and increased radicalization, instability and devastation.
@@WeGoAllTheWayUp Sure, saying one is not as bad as the worst tyrannies that murdered millions of their own people, is really indicative of how low the bar has been set for the US. Guantanamo Bay is a travesty, and no Western country should ever do such, as was the murderous invasion of Afghanistan. Bush should be in jail, just as Xi Jiping and Putin.
@@WeGoAllTheWayUp especially the Sowjets forced men from lithuania, estonia, poland, latvia, Czech to Fight in Afghanistan and Made them addicted to heroine. It was a Crime to the afghan Population but also to the oppressed People by the communists in these States
@@abbb123 lol Czechs and Poles were forced to fight in Afghanistan under the Soviets? Open a history book! Soviets never forced their Warsaw Pact allies to go fight in their war, unlike the US - which by the way did use Czech and Polish forces after the countries joined NATO.
My mom’s family is from Afghanistan. It’s quite bizzare how decades of war have desensitized them. After immigrating to the US, my grandma saw someone get shot in the face right in front of her. She feels sorry for what happened to the poor man, but there is no trace of trauma or fear. Sometimes I wish I was strong like them, but I am grateful to have lived a life of ease where I don’t need to be as desensitized as them.
Let's be real, we never controlled Afghanistan in the first place. We couldn't step a toe outside our FOB's without being heavily armed or without being shot at.
It's actually funny that the video is pretty accurate in depicting the soviets only holding on to thin portions while it shows the americans holding on to huge territories, and yet taliban roamed freely within these, methinks an american made this video.
In this war, I lost 3 of my aunts, and my grandfather from my mother and my dads side. My grandmother got shot in the head and survived. Although she had issues with walking after that. I believe Allah let her live because most of her children weren't even teens. My uncle joined the sunni mujahideen, and fought under Ahmad Shah massoud, and after the war, went to live in Saudi Arabia because he did not want to kill innocent Afghan civilliains. After the Soviet-Afghan war, when I was 3, my dad was kidnapped by the Taliban, and escaped from them after 3 years. He told me there were some others with him too, but they couldn't escape with him. Last year, one of his other fellow kidnapped friend was set free by the Taliban. I don't wish this to happen to anyone.
Actually it went downhill from 2006 onward / this simulation Ignores the Contested Areas and simply paints them just blue which gives the viewer the false sense that that territory was under government control and safe, while it actually was a battleground with an active insurgency going on / in an Insurgency, just showing the controlled area's and not the contested one's does not give a full picture of the situation
It's a feeling hard to describe, where so much of my life is defined by the year I spent fighting in Afghanistan, only to be summed up with a couple of color changed over a few seconds of a 7-minute video. Infinite human struggles, each worthy of being told and remembered, will be forgotten forever. Really sad.
On the side of the invaders? If that’s true, remember, you came to our country. We do not like Bin-laden, he was a terrorist, however, I don’t think that any of us would hand over a Muslim brother to an enemy without proof, no matter how hard the struggle. I do not know if the Afghans will ever forgive America and NATO for what they have done, but we are happy we have our country back
@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 Your country is now under a dictatorship. America gave you a democracy and you threw it away just because you hate foreigners. Your people are starving because of this foolishness.
pls just sit down for a min and think ! Just think you aren’t American ! You are an afghan ! So now some terrorist come to your country kill 3,000 people ! And now you invade America and kill and bomb all American ! You overthrow the government and you put an American who has grown up in Afghanistan as the president but he can’t do anything without your permission ! And than you search and search but you don’t find the guy who you THINK maybe he is responsible ! So you couldn’t find him, but you stay there ! You stay for 20 years ! You bomb their marriage ceremony ! You kill children women civilian ! And some American take arms and stand against you and fight you !! And you the afghan will spend more than 10 billions dollar in media to call those American resistance fighter terrorist !! You who invaded USA you who killed and bombed American citizen you aren’t the terrorist ! But those American who are tired of your controlling over America and tired of you killing their people, those guys are now terrorist ! How are you feeling now ?? Are the Talibans Right ? Are you the Terrorist one or Taliban ??
Yea, it was a genius idea to tell the enemy exactly when the government you supported was going to stop receiving bullets Biden. Almost as smart as forcing them to release 5,000 Taliban veterans and gutting their air force/logistics IN THE MIDDLE OF A TALIBAN OFFENSIVE. Seriously, it was almost like he wanted America to lose in the most humiliating way possible.
@@Valk369 That's just not true and is a posthoc justification of your horrendous failure in Afghanistan. The government did well over 99% of the actual fighting and held all the major population centers as well as over 95% of the population for the last 5 years well America sat in their bases and fixed up planes and gave them bullets. You force that government to release 5,000 Taliban veterans well they're fighting a pandemic and drought, gut their air force and logistics during the Taliban offensive, refuse to allow them to kill thousands of Taliban prisoners then tell the Taliban and the government soldiers that come three weeks time, they're simply not going to receive bullets and obviously it's going to fall apart. Like if your house burned down and you were trying to rebuild it well fighting cancer, than I release a 50 killers, take away your weapons then tell you and the killers exactly when you're going run out of bullets for the pistol I left you, I don't then get to blame you for being killed or say you were going to be killed anyway by the killers I released.
@@thekaiser1156 How did America loose? After estimating the amount of money that they'd be saving after withdrawing from Afghanistan, it's most sensible to say they won.
I'm glad someone is showing this not just from the perspective of US intervention or the Soviet-Afghan War. Too often we only consider the suffering of our fellow Westerners, and neglect to open our eyes to the almost fifty years of pain and suffering the Afghani people have endured.
And the pain and suffering they’re gonna continue to feel- we should’ve never left the Taliban couldn’t have made those gains unless he chose to leave and we did!
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 they may know about it, but they place all of the blame on the us. As if the only reason behind the existence of the mujahideen was american support. Afgans are and were deeply religious people, and they didn’t take kindly to forced progressivism and state atheism. Not to mention that while not secular, the mujahideen were largely supporters of democracy and relatively high freedoms, not even comparable to the taliban.
@@milantoth6246 not true the group that got the bulk of the funding was Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and they pretty much all joined the taliban as they had similar ideologies
@@amanrahmani2632 But they weren’t the Taliban at the time- they played up a big game for freedom but when they finally got what they wanted many started the Taliban. The U.S. didn’t support the ideology of the Taliban they gave the weapons to freedom fighters by those same weapons were THEN given to the Taliban.
its kind of suprising to see just how long the US was losing the war in afganastan. Like I knew it wasn't going well, but compare 2005 to 2018 and its kind of shocking to see how much territory was lost. Makes you wonder if it might've been better if we pulled out then.
The USA took what they wanted, Afghanistan has alot of recoursces which the USA took and now they left as there is no reason to fight for some wasteland
@@nokiatunes7256 Hahaha. Did USA left because of the wasteland? Are you in a dream or it hurts to you to accept the truth? The USA was forcibly expelled, not withdrawn voluntarily. If there would not resistance by the Taliban than we would see USA in the Afghanistan till present day and USA would not left Afghanistan never. Afghanistan is a stragetic and geopolitic country in the world, it means it is very importand and golden place. Afghanistan has border with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (These countries under Russia), Iran, Pakistan, China. Who want to left this coutnry, huh? Afghanistan is a silk road and rich with minerals. Nobody could not touch minerals in the Afghanistan in these 20 years. Because to take minerals of Afghanistan is hard and very expensive. And to do this in the war situtation is just creepy and useless. Minerals stays at the place. Afghanistan is a rich country and you will see it next 10 years. TALIBAN WIN.
@@nokiatunes7256 That's a lie. The US didn't extract resources from Afghanistan. The US spent far more money helping Afghanistan than it ever got in return.
Afghanistan: When you have a civil war end then another one starts and it ends then another one starts and then another one starts and then you get invaded.
then another one starts, then the country invading you has a civil war then another on starts, then another one starts controlling parts of you and the invading country, then another one starts then a faction from another country's civil war flees to you then another one starts
It's not a "vivil war" when 2 "super powers" invade your country. I'm very proud and happy that my country kicked out the satantic forces of these so-called super powers
I am from Afghanistan, and this map is true and sad it cost 4 million lives, it was all because Afghanistan has a wired ethnic politics that did not let any government stay for long nor the foreign powers have good intentions toward Afghanistan, the previews government was too carpeted and a huge gap between people and the authorities such as the last election 1 million people voted and where the population is around 35 million, 70% people lives in rural areas and they don't really care about what if a government collapses, and after 42 years Afghanistan is under control of only one group but the US has frozen Afghan Central Bank money which let to overall poverty and insecurity, right now too much mental pressure on us and where rest of the world enjoys peaceful life, not fear, speechless....
@@mentalillness1574 I am not afghan like him but according to almost all Muslims Taliban are the role model for how to run a state and how people should behave and be like since they go by Islamic principals. IS on the other hand well they give the impression that they just want to seize power rather than wanting the best for Muslims and Islam, they do criticize wrong things done by Taliban and they are right but they are definitely not right to takfir Taliban and rebel against them as it's pretty much against Islamic law to catigorize someone for apostasy for just signing a cease fire like what taliban did and IS exaggerates and says that this cease-fire is cooperation with the enemies whether they are usa or china or iran. I'd find the best to rule the Muslim world to be similar more to al Qaida since they hold the middle ground they do not takfir people too irrationally like IS but also they are more global in their intrest unlike Taliban which is busy and rightfully so to serve their people to rebuild the Islamic emarate. It's a criticism though cause Islam bans nationalism and tribalism as all Muslims are the same and must be united in one state with one aim and goal to spread the law of God and justice. If you were wondering secularism is complete apostasy and heresy from Islam and spreading such ideas is punishable by death penalty cause it is basically a treason against Islam and Muslims. You got a good summary for what most Muslims believe about some of the groups. If you were wondering I am Arab Muslim.
43 years of war. Lets hope that it finally ends and that the living conditions of Afghans will truly improve and they can prosper. However unlikely that may seem now
@@nlyrics156 you are justifying eceonomic sanctions on a country the US already signed peace with. Political and economic terrorism that is and americans should know best that economic bankrupt kills more than terrorism. If the US should mantain sanctions on that country they should not cry when retaliation arrives.
Seriously I get wanting to get out of Afghanistan but Biden basically handed Afghanistan on a silver platter. He left the Airfields/bases before getting all our allies and civilians out first and didn’t even let the Afghan government know. The Afghans were trained to go into combat with air support. He literally pulled Military out before civilians leaving Kabul defenseless, then the realization hit him and was forced to bring back troops, too little too late. They even were offered control of the Kabul airport via the Taliban they refused which ultimately led to 12 dead Marines and 1 sailor. Biden had more time then Trump to get this right but he was to busy appealing the the LGBT+ Alphabet community.
@No Commentary Gaming Yes Biden had more time he had no exit plan because he didn’t start evacuating until July. Yes I know about the warnings the pentagon gave them, but just like fool Biden “assured” everyone that “it’s unlikely for the Taliban to take all of Afghanistan”.
@No Commentary Gaming Special forces were he only one’s fighting and before leaving Ghani had told the Afghans forces to lay down their arms. This wouldn’t have happened if Biden maintained the situation on the ground literally left all airbases before clearing.
@@DuraStop Раша? Может все таки СССР? Так его туда настойчиво приглашало местное правительство. Чечне? Т.е части Раши? Хули раша делала в раше? лолшта?
@@wiyiwiyiwiyiwiyiwwiyiwiyiw1274 Да, конечно. Сидели себе ровно, а как только собрались уходить - тут же внезапно оказалось, что они вообще страну не контролируют)
There's a lot wrong with what my country had been doing, but what a lot of people don't mention is the secrecy. What upsets me (an American) is just how little the American media talked about this. Even though they are extremely left-wing and controlled by the same few oligarchs, we still had no idea that anything was going on until late August 2021 when we started to hear a few rumors of our men were being encircled and destroyed. Days later we find out most of our newest equipment had being seized and re-sold to who knows where and that the puppet government was collapsing. The media doesn't report. They are the 4th branch of the government that needs new leaders.
Persepolis - A great book to read that sheds light on situation similar to this. If I was mostly about Iran in the 70s but mentions many things about Iraq as well
The incredible hypocrisy of Americans to denounce Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (at the demand of the Afghan government, may I add) and yet they invade Afghanistan as soon as they get the chance.
@Bernie Sanders It's the same thing than the Taliban. It's like saying "Russian communists", "Soviet soldiers" or "Red Army"... different names, same group.
@@florentz3518 Al Queda was Allies with the Taliban but then after Al Queda committed the attacks, the US demanded the Taliban give Osama over. At the time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan and was almost done fighting with the Northern Alliance. The Taliban refused to give him over and said if you have proof it’s him, they will send him to a neutral 3rd country. The US then prepared for its invasion. Taliban and Al Queda were Allies, but weren’t the same group
Although the monarchy was pretty stable, the seeds of the future war were already being planted before 1973. It's hard to say if Afghanistan would still be stable today if the monarchy remained, although probably more stable than it is now.
No. Life is monarchy was very bad, the life in the communist era was what is said to be best regime for Afghans with free healthcare, freedom and kabul being one of the hottest tourist spot for Asia at that time. The Afghan economy was so good if only pakistan, US and NATO didn't destroyed it the people would have lived a good life
*the country during the Afghan Civil War was not the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, it was the Islamic State of Afghanistan. The republic was made when the US put it in power in 2004.
Simple at time the government turn into puppet of Soviet after previous president of Afghanistan Amin got betrayed by Soviet and killed. With that almost all neutral tribe or side with government see Soviet as real enemy so what Soviet and government control reduce to only major city. Amin is communist president but he got in power after successful coup. But after him almost all president of Afghanistan choice by Soviet.
Soviets only took control of major cities and communication centers, hoping their presence alone would ensure that no insurgency emerges... However, given that almost entire country was against them, they couldn't subjugate mujahiddeens waging war from country side .. Soon a pattern emerged, Soviets controlled all major urban centers and mujahiddeens controlled rest of the area
I am from Pakistan and I have to say that Pakistan suffered a lot due to Afghanistan issue . By present day Pakistan have loss of estimated $156 billion of economy.
@@manny2640A The first war started in 1960 when Afghanistan invaded Pakistan, then later in 1978 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, then in 2001 when US and NATO invaded Afghanistan (Admittedly Pakistan provided logistical support to NATO in this time). But how did Pakistan start either of these wars?
The US and Nato downsized their troop presence, also the presidency of Hamid Karzai ended (though I don't know if that second part had anything to do with it)
@Necromancer-ji7yb @Necromancer-ji7yb It is one of the stupidest things to say, since religions cause wars, then we should not embrace Islam Islam is different from other religions that call for ridiculous things, and Islam, through jihad, allows you to defend yourself and Muslims because religions command their adherents to kill Muslims or non-Muslims who oppose it. Did one of the Muslims or the polytheists attack during the Battle of Badr because they wanted to interfere in the affairs of others and kill all the Muslims even after they migrated to Medina? Did the Muslims attack Khaybar because they wanted to push their noses in as the Quraysh did, or because the Jews who betrayed the covenant and were expelled by the Prophet gathered in Khaybar in order to confront the Prophet from there? Did the Muslims conquer Mecca out of anger at the Quraysh or because they betrayed the covenant between them? Tell me What resulted from atheism? Atheism resulted in the passing of Nazi and communist ideas, and as a result the Russian Civil War occurred The Soviet Union arose, the Great Purge took place, Nazi Germany arose, World War II arose, and in the war between the communists and the Nazis, 23 million were killed!!! From atheism, communist ideas passed through China, and I do not need to talk about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and other things that communist China did. Now you say that religions cause wars, but we as Muslims cannot count our wars on the wars of Christianity The important thing is that if it were not for religions, many wars would not have occurred, and I say that if it were not for atheism, these hideous events would not have occurred.
In 2001 or 2002 the Taliban actually offer Surrender but the US rejected their Surrender that when US control all of Afghanistan but after they reject the Surrender offer the Taliban begin reorganize in the Mountains and slowly gain ground thanks to US Focus shift to Iraq. The peak of Taliban gain ground happened 2 time first after Obama recall home some of the troops. 2nd when US out of Afghanistan.
I'm an Afghan and I can see how this data have been exaggerated! Taliban captured Kundoz in 2015 and Panjshir is now ruled entirely by Taliban. All those lives was not worth it!!!
I gotta say i was rooting for Sharan. It held out for so long, i remember some great people there when i was in in 2013. Was a mechanic, fixed one fella's bicycle once, he brought me some bread the next day. I hope he is ok still.
I'm half British half Slovak. I'm going be honest, what were our Governments even thinking. Furthermore, why didn't we take note from the Soviets. The Soviets spent half the time, also they focused on the main routes and strategic things. Not trying control the bloody thing. Compare the start of the Soviet Afghan war to the end right before the end of the withdrawal, roughly the same just minor changes. Compare the start of the US led NATO intervention to the end of the withdrawal. What the bloody hell went so wrong if the Soviets made it look like a cup of tea. Obviously it wasn't but the Soviets spent half the time, their strategy was different and their ambitions were reasonable to fullfill.
@@mirzahamzabaig5667 Pakistan probably started helping them out when they realized that they couldn’t control the Taliban. So saying ISI wouldn’t be incorrect.
@asahi toki LOL! what are you using dude? if you defeated them then why you are begging for food from them? when they were there you couldn't get out of your caves, when they left without any war you claimed victory! how you defeated them without shooting a single shot on them? you are a loser and people who have similar mindset like you. I'm a Persian and we will never submit ourselves to your stupid barbaric believes, we will fight to the end and you tribal stinky people doesn't deserve to be our country men.
@No Commentary Gaming This is your problem, US or NATO never occupied Afghanistan, their presence in Afghanistan was based on united nation security council decision. Taliban was not fighting with them at all, 95% of time they were fighting against Afghanistan national military Wich was very popular among Afghan people. Taliban never won the war, everything was given to them and nobody fought with them at the end because everyone wanted to leave Afghanistan. Right now 99% of Afghans want to leave Afghanistan and they don't care anymore because this war never ends and this country never will be able to see peace , freedom, or prosperity. Now Taliban can't feed their own soliders leave a lone the normal people. Regarding your views on Islam, I'm quite on the opposite side of your views.
@@yastheaustralian8590 Not true. Theres video ev idence of there still being guerilla bands controlling the mountain areas, plus presence in East Andarab.
@@braxtonjones6163 now dead and these apostates and heretics are now done with. The only military challenge taliban has other than preparing for future against china in east Turkistan is IS organisation in Afghanistan, but IS do not have the popularity of taliban so it doesn't seem like they'd win this one though it might cause annoyances here and there like constant assassinations and bombings here and there.
The taliban won for 3 reasons. One they were genuinely as stubborn as advertised. Two Pakistan and Iran covertly supported them so no matter how bad it got there was always a base of operations to maintain them. And three covid hit forcing an abrupt stop to any US support. Once the money dried up the troops melted away.
America was trying to give the Afghan government a chance to fight against the Taliban. Yes, the US wanted to pull its troops out of Afghanistan, but it didn't want the Taliban to take over. Unfortunately the government was corrupt and too many Afghans were fine with Taliban rule so the whole country collapsed.
Ehhh, idk. It might have delayed it, but there was already a lot of growing discontent in Afghanistan with the rise of Communist influence in the Army and the reforms of the King.
3:50 Really, didn't they have proofs for Afghanistan that he was guilty? They just instead preferred to send an invasion army. 5:25 At least something good happened from an invasion Wich only put at risk the life of civilians.
War makes insane profits. Ask US military industrial complex, they are good at starting wars and selling weapons. Was there proof of WMDs in Iraq? Nope but they still invaded as they wanted to make profit out of it.
As a Pakistani nothing makes me more happier than seeing the purple (pakistani Taliban) get kicked out of our country. After years of sacrifices by our military, government, and intelligence we were finally able to fully defeat them in our lands.
@@V_For_Vigilante The Taliban used to be Pashtun nationalists. The Pakistani Taliban still are. The Pashtun people have been split in half by the Duran line, or the Afghan-Pakistan border.
You have so many views on many videos but yet you receive only a couple of thousand subscribers. I think its because of the presentation in your videos. You should improve it by using a more unique coloured description panel (a darker tone usually works fine) and higher resolution maps where neutral countries are represented by more darkish colors rather than plain white (again, dark colours always make it more smooth™).
Почему, если СССР вводит войска по официальному приглашению правительства, то это Советско-Афганская война, а если США вводят туда войска по официальному приглашению, то это уже праведная помощь официальному правительству?
@asahi toki Soviet Union was the furthest thing from Satanic, unlike the Talibans which are terrorists. If the USSR won then Afghanistan would be the richest country in central Asia, behind the USSR of course
I don't quite understand why anyone ever thought the Islamic republic would hold out alone, when it could never control the entire country with the help of a superpower. Now don't get me wrong I wasn't aware at the time of just how fed the situation was as this video shows but knowing the USA had actual combat engagements in a region is really telling.
Taliban doesn't wanna expand, their only demand is to make peace with US and every country and control afghanistan they weren't there to kill US troops like ISIS is lol, hence why they got in Doha agreement. and yes they'll need the help of US, China; Russia etc to govern.
@asahi toki it wasn't lol you could say they won the battle but not the war. even Qaddafi stated that the taliban's goal is to get afghanistan and cooperate peacefully, he actually stood for them. the only difference between taliban and the former afghan gov is that one dresses differently, and a bit more desiring for shariah.
U.S was leading the fight and ISAF and not the afghan government from 2001 to 2014. U.S itself retreated from areas that it could not defend due to terrain, and started its strategy of counter insurgency in populated areas, hence areas like in nuristan province was fallen to taliban. During the surge (2009-2012) U.S aim was stabilize the situation (create a stale mate) and focus on populated areas and train the afghan army. After 2014, the gave the responsibility of security to afghans and was just there as a back up with a small number force( from 120k in 2011 to around 15-20k in 2019).
Hay que admitir algo aguantar 20 años de guerra contra varias de las mayores potencias del mundo es de admirar... Además de que en cuanto se fueron los yankies no tardaron ni un par de meses en apoderarse de todo Afganistán... No apoyo su ideología pero hay que recalcar la persistencia de esa gente.
I feel so bad for those that live in the country I’m sorry our military abandoned your country without a supporting government and the situation is horrible we should have left earlier but this was a mistake and I as a American am sorry for all those that suffered from the war
lol dude, i can assure you that your country destroyed my nation, k1lled our farmers for no reason and stole lithium and natural gas from our country. we want to be ruled by anyone except non native t3rr0r1sts who claim to be giving democracy and freedom. tal1ban is the same sh1th0le of pakistan
Its kinda amazing that the US left the democratic forces witjin afghsnistan in a worse place than in the early 2000's they completely delegitimized the democratic forces,gave over highly effective equipment to the Taliban and led to a mass withdraw of people who couldve mounted a resistance.
I think that is only a simplification. The DRA never had much control over the rural areas of the country. So, the mujahideen were already there in 1978-1979, but they began a more furious fight during Amin’s government and after the soviet invasion.
Mistake: I messed up the music credits at the end. Here are the songs I used:
Guardians - Evan King
Rallying The Defense - Per Kiilistofte
What Are You Prepared to Sacrifice - Crysis 3 Soundtrack
@Ramzan Kadyrov The programs I use are in the credits of the video
@@TheGilliams Nce
Where is this info from? Ur ass or ur dreams?
@Ramzan Kadyrov comes from inside his ass
hello gilliams, i would like to mention that although this isnt big enough to be shown on the map
in June 2003 the Pakistan Frontier Corps "Marched 5 kilometres into Afghanistan and seized the village of "Ghulam Khan" in Afghanistan which is located at the southern point of Khost
The only video that shows 1978 to today. Fantastic and detailed
Speeches by non-Americans would’ve been really cool for this video I think. It would’ve been interesting to hear maybe Brezhnev and both declarations of the Islamic emirate
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@@G3E007 they don't speak arab in Afghanistan. They speak Pashto and Dari.
@@G3E007 doesn't mean it's ok to lie about what language they speak
you don't sound very respectful
@@fasoooli2751 I don’t respect terrorists
@@BoogerSugar420 national atlantic terrorist organisation
It's impressive to see, that republic of Afghanistan held for so long even after USSR pulled out. Especially when you compare it to Americans as Afghanistan felt in less than a week.
Well, probably because USSR tried to put native afghani government in control - soviets only needed it to be communistic and subordinate of USSR. They weren't interested in keeping Afghanistan under direct control. So soviets actively trained afghani communistic forces and government and helped them with money and equipment - but that clearly wasn't enough so soviets actively used their own military since 1979, trying to keep everything under control. So when soviets pulled out, afghani government still fought for some time, even though lost eventually.
@@Rosa-cr7qc It was my first time hearing the word communistic, but it's a real word. I guess libs just have more vocabulary than you.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me lmao, not sure why he said "libs" but it is also my first time hearing communistic.
@@case3270 I think it's because that's similar to how they say it in this person's language, he is clearly not English.
@@case3270 Because they are not communists, but communistic forces.
One of the interesting thing is after decades of war , Its territorial integrity is still intact.
Shows the colonial influence of all these civil wars.
None of these wars were ever about border expansion.
@@psychokinrazalon they don't recognize border with Pakistan though. One of the reason why Pakistan has always been in olved there
@@walterwhite1588 Exactly. Border expansion is meaningless. Hence why they’ve never fought any wars for that purpose.
@@psychokinrazalon yeah, you are right
Excellent video. Though I feel it best viewed at 75% speed as the info and changes went by so fast. I appreciate that you show the entire series of conflicts that poor country has gone through for the past 40 years.
This event should be known as the Afghan Wars, because it was a series of non stop wars taking place in Afghanistan. Kind of like the Napoleonic Wars.
@99 Pakistan didn't start this civil war, you absolute buffoon
It was initially an only Afghan civil war, which eventually led to the soviets intervening and America later intervening as well
Pakistan was pulled into this war, since the Taliban/Tehrik-e-Taliban directly occupied parts of Pakistan, mainly the Swat Valley
@99 oh ok nice
@99 are you responsible when coalitions decide to attack you?
@99 Thank you for at least trying to explain things despite the dumb shit thrown your way. I'm in no way qualified nor well-read enough to question the validity, but I do appreciate your efforts anyway in this thunderdome that is YT comment sections.
@99 he was talking about the nepoleonic wars since Napoleon didn’t start most of the wars
4:00 but if you close your eyes
7:13 does it almost feel like nothing changed at all
lol
Ofcourse.
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Ah yes I like how USA also killed another secular republic just so they could exploit thier resources
And then blamed on Afghan people lol
I'm from Pakistan. I have to say this is very accurately made, down to the events and geopolitical alignment of countries that neighbor Afghanistan. Good job!
zindabad
@Vizzy Jam Culturally maybe not, geostrategically speaking most Pakistani's know Afghanistan well.
@MortalGame TV Love back from Pakistan
Karabakh is Azerbaijan
@@kamilkashaf2766 love Pakistan from India 🇮🇳❤️🇵🇰
No one cares, Pakistan is not special.
Imagine being an Afghani born in, say, 1973, pretty much all of living memory would be of war.
If I could I'd have Bush answer for war crimes to set an example to other leaders not to invade other countries. Nothing was gained but over a hundred thousand dead civilians, millions of refugees and homeless and increased radicalization, instability and devastation.
@@lookingforsomething tell that to china and russia
@@WeGoAllTheWayUp Sure, saying one is not as bad as the worst tyrannies that murdered millions of their own people, is really indicative of how low the bar has been set for the US. Guantanamo Bay is a travesty, and no Western country should ever do such, as was the murderous invasion of Afghanistan. Bush should be in jail, just as Xi Jiping and Putin.
@@WeGoAllTheWayUp especially the Sowjets forced men from lithuania, estonia, poland, latvia, Czech to Fight in Afghanistan and Made them addicted to heroine. It was a Crime to the afghan Population but also to the oppressed People by the communists in these States
@@abbb123 lol Czechs and Poles were forced to fight in Afghanistan under the Soviets? Open a history book! Soviets never forced their Warsaw Pact allies to go fight in their war, unlike the US - which by the way did use Czech and Polish forces after the countries joined NATO.
My mom’s family is from Afghanistan. It’s quite bizzare how decades of war have desensitized them. After immigrating to the US, my grandma saw someone get shot in the face right in front of her. She feels sorry for what happened to the poor man, but there is no trace of trauma or fear. Sometimes I wish I was strong like them, but I am grateful to have lived a life of ease where I don’t need to be as desensitized as them.
In some safer countries you don't even need to see people shot in the face.
@@inkunziknox7714 Yeah, but in those countries you have to suffer from socialized medicine. I'd rather be shot in the face.
/s
@@scoobydoobers23 Here is the ignorant American who is stuck in the 1960s and doesn't want free Healthcare. Fuck
@@clonesolar there is no free healthcare
@@linnenbach123 well, in Europe there is yea ding dong,
It's almost weird to think that this country embroiled in decades of conflict was relatively peaceful in both world wars.
They tend to be, if you're not involved in the world wars then they caught up to you
They had a huge civil war beetween the two wars
if not for soviet and us invasions it would be as peacefull as before. But i dont think that living in islamic state is that peacefull at all.
@@iscreenshotedthisguyongoog7422 It wasn't exactly peaceful before the USSR invaded
Not weird at all. It's a conflict-ridden third world shìthole.
Let's be real, we never controlled Afghanistan in the first place. We couldn't step a toe outside our FOB's without being heavily armed or without being shot at.
It's actually funny that the video is pretty accurate in depicting the soviets only holding on to thin portions while it shows the americans holding on to huge territories, and yet taliban roamed freely within these, methinks an american made this video.
Little late to watch this on my part cause of vacation but i absolutely enjoyed this video, great job!
In this war, I lost 3 of my aunts, and my grandfather from my mother and my dads side.
My grandmother got shot in the head and survived. Although she had issues with walking after that. I believe Allah let her live because most of her children weren't even teens.
My uncle joined the sunni mujahideen, and fought under Ahmad Shah massoud, and after the war, went to live in Saudi Arabia because he did not want to kill innocent Afghan civilliains.
After the Soviet-Afghan war, when I was 3, my dad was kidnapped by the Taliban, and escaped from them after 3 years. He told me there were some others with him too, but they couldn't escape with him.
Last year, one of his other fellow kidnapped friend was set free by the Taliban.
I don't wish this to happen to anyone.
@Storozhevoy Ameen
hope you are kidding
@@सुदय-त8थ I wish I was
Im sorry you had to suffer all of that. May Allah give peace and prosperity to your people
This is really well done.
No it's medium rare
2011 was probably the last time we could've declared some sort of victory with the death of Bin Laden and pulled out before the decline started
Actually it went downhill from 2006 onward / this simulation Ignores the Contested Areas and simply paints them just blue which gives the viewer the false sense that that territory was under government control and safe, while it actually was a battleground with an active insurgency going on / in an Insurgency, just showing the controlled area's and not the contested one's does not give a full picture of the situation
At least we gave a few more years of freedom to millions of Afghans before the religious Fundamentalists took over.
@@greywolf7577 Imagine being invaded by a foreign country and becoming a puppet state, that does not sound like freedom
@@aburoach9268 I agree. U.S was too busy with Iraq after 2005, and talibs were regrouping and staging attacks. Just ask the British in helmand.
@@greywolf7577
I don't think US army bombing Kunduz civilian hospital in 2016 (or 2015 i don't remember exactly) is the freedom Afghan people want
It's a feeling hard to describe, where so much of my life is defined by the year I spent fighting in Afghanistan, only to be summed up with a couple of color changed over a few seconds of a 7-minute video. Infinite human struggles, each worthy of being told and remembered, will be forgotten forever. Really sad.
On the side of the invaders? If that’s true, remember, you came to our country. We do not like Bin-laden, he was a terrorist, however, I don’t think that any of us would hand over a Muslim brother to an enemy without proof, no matter how hard the struggle. I do not know if the Afghans will ever forgive America and NATO for what they have done, but we are happy we have our country back
@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 have fun with your country.
@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 Your country is now under a dictatorship. America gave you a democracy and you threw it away just because you hate foreigners. Your people are starving because of this foolishness.
@@fakeeeacvounthhs1470 If your from Afghanistan you couldn't be here and if your not you are sickening.
pls just sit down for a min and think ! Just think you aren’t American ! You are an afghan !
So now some terrorist come to your country kill 3,000 people ! And now you invade America and kill and bomb all American ! You overthrow the government and you put an American who has grown up in Afghanistan as the president but he can’t do anything without your permission ! And than you search and search but you don’t find the guy who you THINK maybe he is responsible !
So you couldn’t find him, but you stay there ! You stay for 20 years ! You bomb their marriage ceremony ! You kill children women civilian !
And some American take arms and stand against you and fight you !!
And you the afghan will spend more than 10 billions dollar in media to call those American resistance fighter terrorist !!
You who invaded USA you who killed and bombed American citizen you aren’t the terrorist ! But those American who are tired of your controlling over America and tired of you killing their people, those guys are now terrorist !
How are you feeling now ??
Are the Talibans Right ? Are you the Terrorist one or Taliban ??
I've been waiting for this one, thank you so much for continue it
"I've concluded that's it's time to end America's longest war"
Taliban: me too
Yea, it was a genius idea to tell the enemy exactly when the government you supported was going to stop receiving bullets Biden. Almost as smart as forcing them to release 5,000 Taliban veterans and gutting their air force/logistics IN THE MIDDLE OF A TALIBAN OFFENSIVE.
Seriously, it was almost like he wanted America to lose in the most humiliating way possible.
@@Valk369 That's just not true and is a posthoc justification of your horrendous failure in Afghanistan. The government did well over 99% of the actual fighting and held all the major population centers as well as over 95% of the population for the last 5 years well America sat in their bases and fixed up planes and gave them bullets.
You force that government to release 5,000 Taliban veterans well they're fighting a pandemic and drought, gut their air force and logistics during the Taliban offensive, refuse to allow them to kill thousands of Taliban prisoners then tell the Taliban and the government soldiers that come three weeks time, they're simply not going to receive bullets and obviously it's going to fall apart.
Like if your house burned down and you were trying to rebuild it well fighting cancer, than I release a 50 killers, take away your weapons then tell you and the killers exactly when you're going run out of bullets for the pistol I left you, I don't then get to blame you for being killed or say you were going to be killed anyway by the killers I released.
@@thekaiser1156
The afghan war ending and the US government getting humiliated is a GOOD thing
@@thekaiser1156 How did America loose? After estimating the amount of money that they'd be saving after withdrawing from Afghanistan, it's most sensible to say they won.
@@aryan_bhat they lost the same way they lost in Vietnam.
I was waiting for this on your channel, this was the video we needed
Great video! Very detailed. It must have taken you 43 years to make this xD
ok but is no ways
@@lionelllangitan6203 Hey gregory have you heard of the hit game among us. I know its hard to be sus but you need to vent.
@@domino5525 LMAOO I FUCKING CANT THIS IS PURE COMEDY
I'm glad someone is showing this not just from the perspective of US intervention or the Soviet-Afghan War. Too often we only consider the suffering of our fellow Westerners, and neglect to open our eyes to the almost fifty years of pain and suffering the Afghani people have endured.
I'm pretty sure most people know about the Soviet invasion
And the pain and suffering they’re gonna continue to feel- we should’ve never left the Taliban couldn’t have made those gains unless he chose to leave and we did!
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 they may know about it, but they place all of the blame on the us. As if the only reason behind the existence of the mujahideen was american support. Afgans are and were deeply religious people, and they didn’t take kindly to forced progressivism and state atheism. Not to mention that while not secular, the mujahideen were largely supporters of democracy and relatively high freedoms, not even comparable to the taliban.
@@milantoth6246 not true the group that got the bulk of the funding was Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin and they pretty much all joined the taliban as they had similar ideologies
@@amanrahmani2632
But they weren’t the Taliban at the time- they played up a big game for freedom but when they finally got what they wanted many started the Taliban. The U.S. didn’t support the ideology of the Taliban they gave the weapons to freedom fighters by those same weapons were THEN given to the Taliban.
Thanks. Now I'm waiting for visualisation of every second of war in Afghanistan.
its kind of suprising to see just how long the US was losing the war in afganastan. Like I knew it wasn't going well, but compare 2005 to 2018 and its kind of shocking to see how much territory was lost. Makes you wonder if it might've been better if we pulled out then.
Well at that time you could see that the Taliban was gaining land but had not taken any cities yet.
The USA took what they wanted, Afghanistan has alot of recoursces which the USA took and now they left as there is no reason to fight for some wasteland
@@nokiatunes7256 Hahaha. Did USA left because of the wasteland? Are you in a dream or it hurts to you to accept the truth? The USA was forcibly expelled, not withdrawn voluntarily. If there would not resistance by the Taliban than we would see USA in the Afghanistan till present day and USA would not left Afghanistan never. Afghanistan is a stragetic and geopolitic country in the world, it means it is very importand and golden place. Afghanistan has border with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan (These countries under Russia), Iran, Pakistan, China. Who want to left this coutnry, huh? Afghanistan is a silk road and rich with minerals. Nobody could not touch minerals in the Afghanistan in these 20 years. Because to take minerals of Afghanistan is hard and very expensive. And to do this in the war situtation is just creepy and useless. Minerals stays at the place. Afghanistan is a rich country and you will see it next 10 years. TALIBAN WIN.
@@nokiatunes7256 That's a lie. The US didn't extract resources from Afghanistan. The US spent far more money helping Afghanistan than it ever got in return.
@@greywolf7577 both helping and bombing it
Must have took so long. Excellent quality!
Afghanistan: When you have a civil war end then another one starts and it ends then another one starts and then another one starts and then you get invaded.
then another one starts, then the country invading you has a civil war then another on starts, then another one starts controlling parts of you and the invading country, then another one starts then a faction from another country's civil war flees to you then another one starts
It's not a "vivil war" when 2 "super powers" invade your country. I'm very proud and happy that my country kicked out the satantic forces of these so-called super powers
An Afghan leaving to be refugee in late 70s: "Dont worry war will be over before we know it and then we can return..."
* *45 years & 4 months later* *
Thank you for the extra map of Kabul, I pointed out that it was lacking in the prior version.
I am from Afghanistan, and this map is true and sad it cost 4 million lives, it was all because Afghanistan has a wired ethnic politics that did not let any government stay for long nor the foreign powers have good intentions toward Afghanistan, the previews government was too carpeted and a huge gap between people and the authorities such as the last election 1 million people voted and where the population is around 35 million, 70% people lives in rural areas and they don't really care about what if a government collapses, and after 42 years Afghanistan is under control of only one group but the US has frozen Afghan Central Bank money which let to overall poverty and insecurity, right now too much mental pressure on us and where rest of the world enjoys peaceful life, not fear, speechless....
What are your opinions on taliban/isis-k
It actually cost 2 million lives, still a lot but 50% less than what you said it was.
@@mentalillness1574
I am not afghan like him but according to almost all Muslims Taliban are the role model for how to run a state and how people should behave and be like since they go by Islamic principals.
IS on the other hand well they give the impression that they just want to seize power rather than wanting the best for Muslims and Islam, they do criticize wrong things done by Taliban and they are right but they are definitely not right to takfir Taliban and rebel against them as it's pretty much against Islamic law to catigorize someone for apostasy for just signing a cease fire like what taliban did and IS exaggerates and says that this cease-fire is cooperation with the enemies whether they are usa or china or iran.
I'd find the best to rule the Muslim world to be similar more to al Qaida since they hold the middle ground they do not takfir people too irrationally like IS but also they are more global in their intrest unlike Taliban which is busy and rightfully so to serve their people to rebuild the Islamic emarate. It's a criticism though cause Islam bans nationalism and tribalism as all Muslims are the same and must be united in one state with one aim and goal to spread the law of God and justice.
If you were wondering secularism is complete apostasy and heresy from Islam and spreading such ideas is punishable by death penalty cause it is basically a treason against Islam and Muslims.
You got a good summary for what most Muslims believe about some of the groups. If you were wondering I am Arab Muslim.
@@فهميكتاني
R u stupid? Taliban are not muslims, they are terrorists
@@فهميكتاني
Stupid fcuk. Taliban don't know how to run a country because they destroyed the whole of Afghanistan during 1996-2001
"I've waited 84 years..."
Any Russian or American kid who says they didn't lose but left Afghanistan, shows how hard it is for them to cope with their defeat.
43 years of war. Lets hope that it finally ends and that the living conditions of Afghans will truly improve and they can prosper. However unlikely that may seem now
Especially since US sanctions will kill more people than the Taliban
@@nlyrics156 you are justifying eceonomic sanctions on a country the US already signed peace with. Political and economic terrorism that is and americans should know best that economic bankrupt kills more than terrorism. If the US should mantain sanctions on that country they should not cry when retaliation arrives.
@@nlyrics156 damn that's such a dumb thing to say
Talibans are afghans why would they kill US sanction will kill millions and drive people to join Daesh k
21 years for US intervention.
Biden: *speaks*
Afghanistan: time to become grey
Seriously I get wanting to get out of Afghanistan but Biden basically handed Afghanistan on a silver platter. He left the Airfields/bases before getting all our allies and civilians out first and didn’t even let the Afghan government know. The Afghans were trained to go into combat with air support. He literally pulled Military out before civilians leaving Kabul defenseless, then the realization hit him and was forced to bring back troops, too little too late. They even were offered control of the Kabul airport via the Taliban they refused which ultimately led to 12 dead Marines and 1 sailor. Biden had more time then Trump to get this right but he was to busy appealing the the LGBT+ Alphabet community.
Afghanistan: I'm gray!
@No Commentary Gaming Yes Biden had more time he had no exit plan because he didn’t start evacuating until July. Yes I know about the warnings the pentagon gave them, but just like fool Biden “assured” everyone that “it’s unlikely for the Taliban to take all of Afghanistan”.
@No Commentary Gaming Special forces were he only one’s fighting and before leaving Ghani had told the Afghans forces to lay down their arms. This wouldn’t have happened if Biden maintained the situation on the ground literally left all airbases before clearing.
@@braxtonjones6163 i hate lqbtqia+
Yeah, you definitely did much better than me, lol. Nice job though, can't wait to see what you upload next!
a must see for those who wish to understand the afghanstan conflict...truly..what a mess :(
My family were in the Afghan Army during the Soviet Afghan war
Omg hi meatiest
@@krishivkaran5337 qkvewnvrsmcnfnf. F
Cause they forced ppl
@@AfG_313 My uncle joined voluntarily (by himself) and my dad was drafted
@@AfG_313 my uncle also joined to ki|| mujahideen
"I've concluded that it's time to end America's longest war"
*One second later*
Afghanistan has capitulated
США в 1980-х: Афганистан для русских должен стать их собственным Вьетнамом!
США сейчас: Сиквел...
хули раша делала в афганистане ? то же в чечне грузии итд?
@@DuraStop Раша? Может все таки СССР? Так его туда настойчиво приглашало местное правительство. Чечне? Т.е части Раши? Хули раша делала в раше? лолшта?
@@Kamelskih Россия в 2010х: США спонсирует и устанавливает отношения с террористами
Россия сейчас: Сиквел...
Афганистан и стал Вьетнамом для совка , а США тупо оккупировали его за 2 месяца и сидели там
@@wiyiwiyiwiyiwiyiwwiyiwiyiw1274 Да, конечно. Сидели себе ровно, а как только собрались уходить - тут же внезапно оказалось, что они вообще страну не контролируют)
3:03 song name please
There's a lot wrong with what my country had been doing, but what a lot of people don't mention is the secrecy. What upsets me (an American) is just how little the American media talked about this. Even though they are extremely left-wing and controlled by the same few oligarchs, we still had no idea that anything was going on until late August 2021 when we started to hear a few rumors of our men were being encircled and destroyed. Days later we find out most of our newest equipment had being seized and re-sold to who knows where and that the puppet government was collapsing. The media doesn't report. They are the 4th branch of the government that needs new leaders.
Thank you for part two there’s just one problem The pincher resistant you know wiped out
They're not totally wiped out, there remains some holdouts in the mountain areas.
Persepolis - A great book to read that sheds light on situation similar to this. If I was mostly about Iran in the 70s but mentions many things about Iraq as well
Wasn’t the pansheer resistance defeated too?
It has been defeated
Because of the same factors
Tajiks named it Pashtun-Tajik war and thus Panjsher Felled to the Taliban
Yep, they fell within a week.
There's some fighters in some remote mountains but that's it
The incredible hypocrisy of Americans to denounce Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (at the demand of the Afghan government, may I add) and yet they invade Afghanistan as soon as they get the chance.
It’s called 9/11 and bad people do bad things and try to kill other people so we have people that kill the bad people so they don’t kill other people.
@@jaeger7693 9/11 literally happened as a consequence of American intervention! The Americans are the ones who trained and armed the Taliban!
@Bernie Sanders ...yes? Who did you think did 9/11?
@Bernie Sanders It's the same thing than the Taliban. It's like saying "Russian communists", "Soviet soldiers" or "Red Army"... different names, same group.
@@florentz3518 Al Queda was Allies with the Taliban but then after Al Queda committed the attacks, the US demanded the Taliban give Osama over. At the time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan and was almost done fighting with the Northern Alliance. The Taliban refused to give him over and said if you have proof it’s him, they will send him to a neutral 3rd country. The US then prepared for its invasion. Taliban and Al Queda were Allies, but weren’t the same group
Imagine if that first coup failed and the monarchy remained. So many lives would be better
Although the monarchy was pretty stable, the seeds of the future war were already being planted before 1973. It's hard to say if Afghanistan would still be stable today if the monarchy remained, although probably more stable than it is now.
That, but also if the communists never took power in 79, the monarchy and the following republic was stable.
No. Life is monarchy was very bad, the life in the communist era was what is said to be best regime for Afghans with free healthcare, freedom and kabul being one of the hottest tourist spot for Asia at that time. The Afghan economy was so good if only pakistan, US and NATO didn't destroyed it the people would have lived a good life
*the country during the Afghan Civil War was not the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, it was the Islamic State of Afghanistan. The republic was made when the US put it in power in 2004.
Oh yea you're right, my bad. Not sure how I missed that.
Amazing work!
wow, seeing that circle made me realize that our strategy in afganistan was literally the same as the soviets.
Great job video.
finally an update!
Jesus christ it looks intense
0:36 How did the government lose so much territory all in once?
Simple at time the government turn into puppet of Soviet after previous president of Afghanistan Amin got betrayed by Soviet and killed. With that almost all neutral tribe or side with government see Soviet as real enemy so what Soviet and government control reduce to only major city.
Amin is communist president but he got in power after successful coup. But after him almost all president of Afghanistan choice by Soviet.
@@johnmaulana7027 тоесть 20 последних лет у власти в афганистане было марионеточное правительство сша?
@@xtz9510 Ok and? Stop deflecting and admit your faults
Soviets only took control of major cities and communication centers, hoping their presence alone would ensure that no insurgency emerges... However, given that almost entire country was against them, they couldn't subjugate mujahiddeens waging war from country side .. Soon a pattern emerged, Soviets controlled all major urban centers and mujahiddeens controlled rest of the area
They were never loyal to the US to begin with
I bow to you, sir.
I kinda dont understand how the soviets only controlled roads as opposed to the US and ISAF that controlled whole provinces
I think soviet goal was to make a puppet government
Thanks, Jimmy Carter
The best Afghan-civilwar video by far! Props to you and Congrats my mate, U have a new sub from me.
I am from Pakistan and I have to say that Pakistan suffered a lot due to Afghanistan issue . By present day Pakistan have loss of estimated $156 billion of economy.
Pakistan started the whole war what are u talking about?
Ya when you arm terrorists and give them refugee that tends to happen
We aren’t done with you just yet.
Donk*y these were Afghans who invited USSR to b0mb their own country. You started this war and dragged pak in it as well.
@@manny2640A The first war started in 1960 when Afghanistan invaded Pakistan, then later in 1978 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, then in 2001 when US and NATO invaded Afghanistan (Admittedly Pakistan provided logistical support to NATO in this time). But how did Pakistan start either of these wars?
Interesting how Obama held it pretty well until the summer of 2015. Does anybody know what happened?
The US and Nato downsized their troop presence, also the presidency of Hamid Karzai ended (though I don't know if that second part had anything to do with it)
Trump brought the troops home.
@@TheGilliamsprobably the American were tired of the war and didn't care much about it especially after Osama deaths
"it is a deliberate effort of a powerful atheistic government to subjugate a religious muslim nation"
USA a few years later:
USA became more atheistic than the USSR has ever been
Today november 2021 panjir is taliban or afgan control ?????????
Taliban
Love and support for Afghanistan
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We hope for a better life away from wars sha' Allah
@Trannykiller9000
The universe was created by accident is not it ?
@Necromancer-ji7yb
@Necromancer-ji7yb
It is one of the stupidest things to say, since religions cause wars, then we should not embrace Islam
Islam is different from other religions that call for ridiculous things, and Islam, through jihad, allows you to defend yourself and Muslims because religions command their adherents to kill Muslims or non-Muslims who oppose it. Did one of the Muslims or the polytheists attack during the Battle of Badr because they wanted to interfere in the affairs of others and kill all the Muslims even after they migrated to Medina?
Did the Muslims attack Khaybar because they wanted to push their noses in as the Quraysh did, or because the Jews who betrayed the covenant and were expelled by the Prophet gathered in Khaybar in order to confront the Prophet from there?
Did the Muslims conquer Mecca out of anger at the Quraysh or because they betrayed the covenant between them?
Tell me
What resulted from atheism?
Atheism resulted in the passing of Nazi and communist ideas, and as a result the Russian Civil War occurred The Soviet Union arose, the Great Purge took place, Nazi Germany arose, World War II arose, and in the war between the communists and the Nazis, 23 million were killed!!!
From atheism, communist ideas passed through China, and I do not need to talk about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and other things that communist China did.
Now you say that religions cause wars, but we as Muslims cannot count our wars on the wars of Christianity
The important thing is that if it were not for religions, many wars would not have occurred, and I say that if it were not for atheism, these hideous events would not have occurred.
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How is it possible to make these videos? how do you edit? where do they get the information?
it's a very good job
Great video
Nice video brorher I wish you can put some Soviet recordings on the Afghan war too
It looks like the US captured all of Afghanistan, what happened? Someone please explain this to me.
In 2001 or 2002 the Taliban actually offer Surrender but the US rejected their Surrender that when US control all of Afghanistan but after they reject the Surrender offer the Taliban begin reorganize in the Mountains and slowly gain ground thanks to US Focus shift to Iraq. The peak of Taliban gain ground happened 2 time first after Obama recall home some of the troops. 2nd when US out of Afghanistan.
@@johnmaulana7027 damn, that’s fucking stupid.
@@johnmaulana7027 wait the Taliban offered surrender man this feels like the exact same way as when USSR offered too join NATO but they refused
@@danilapolesciuk4316 because NATO would have became useless then. Not a valid comparison
I'm an Afghan and I can see how this data have been exaggerated! Taliban captured Kundoz in 2015 and Panjshir is now ruled entirely by Taliban. All those lives was not worth it!!!
I gotta say i was rooting for Sharan. It held out for so long, i remember some great people there when i was in in 2013.
Was a mechanic, fixed one fella's bicycle once, he brought me some bread the next day. I hope he is ok still.
@@dmitrychernivetsky5876 sharana was close to zurmat which had a massive taliban influence. They easily took sharana
yeah they did capture kundaz and its shows on the map. And what do you mean all those lives lost??
Appreciation for the video Can I use this video for the documentary?
I'm half British half Slovak. I'm going be honest, what were our Governments even thinking. Furthermore, why didn't we take note from the Soviets. The Soviets spent half the time, also they focused on the main routes and strategic things. Not trying control the bloody thing. Compare the start of the Soviet Afghan war to the end right before the end of the withdrawal, roughly the same just minor changes. Compare the start of the US led NATO intervention to the end of the withdrawal. What the bloody hell went so wrong if the Soviets made it look like a cup of tea. Obviously it wasn't but the Soviets spent half the time, their strategy was different and their ambitions were reasonable to fullfill.
Wow you can notice that the circle during the Soviet Afghan war that is under Soviet control is the main highway that runs across the country.
didn't the Afghanistan war ended ended almost 2 months ago
not really, there still was some Panjshir resistance as shown in the video
@@newstartyt3700 There is also ISI running around an ambushing Taliban.
No - the government may have collapsed but the Panjshir resistance continues to fight the Taliban, and ISIS still holds territory
@@braxtonjones6163
I think you mean ISIS-K or ISK not ISI.
@@mirzahamzabaig5667 Pakistan probably started helping them out when they realized that they couldn’t control the Taliban. So saying ISI wouldn’t be incorrect.
My father was born in August 1978. This conflict is even older as my father, unbelievable!
Poor Afghanistan
@asahi toki I wouldn’t say defeated
@asahi toki LOL! what are you using dude? if you defeated them then why you are begging for food from them? when they were there you couldn't get out of your caves, when they left without any war you claimed victory! how you defeated them without shooting a single shot on them? you are a loser and people who have similar mindset like you. I'm a Persian and we will never submit ourselves to your stupid barbaric believes, we will fight to the end and you tribal stinky people doesn't deserve to be our country men.
@No Commentary Gaming I'm not from Iran, half of current day Afghanistan is Persian.
@No Commentary Gaming This is your problem, US or NATO never occupied Afghanistan, their presence in Afghanistan was based on united nation security council decision. Taliban was not fighting with them at all, 95% of time they were fighting against Afghanistan national military Wich was very popular among Afghan people. Taliban never won the war, everything was given to them and nobody fought with them at the end because everyone wanted to leave Afghanistan. Right now 99% of Afghans want to leave Afghanistan and they don't care anymore because this war never ends and this country never will be able to see peace , freedom, or prosperity. Now Taliban can't feed their own soliders leave a lone the normal people. Regarding your views on Islam, I'm quite on the opposite side of your views.
Panjasher pocket has been terminated
It hasn’t they’re not as active but are waiting for the perfect time to strike.
Not yet, although they did lose Bazarak on September 6th
@@TheGilliams yes they lost it already now
@@yastheaustralian8590 Not true. Theres video ev idence of there still being guerilla bands controlling the mountain areas, plus presence in East Andarab.
@@braxtonjones6163 now dead and these apostates and heretics are now done with.
The only military challenge taliban has other than preparing for future against china in east Turkistan is IS organisation in Afghanistan, but IS do not have the popularity of taliban so it doesn't seem like they'd win this one though it might cause annoyances here and there like constant assassinations and bombings here and there.
The taliban won for 3 reasons. One they were genuinely as stubborn as advertised. Two Pakistan and Iran covertly supported them so no matter how bad it got there was always a base of operations to maintain them. And three covid hit forcing an abrupt stop to any US support. Once the money dried up the troops melted away.
Well done
important to note that afghanistan is NOT a small country, it's larger than france
This makes me realize the war was already lost in 2015
Why changed from "Soviet union and DRA" to "Democratic republic of afghanistan and allies" and from purple to yellow in 1989?
1989 Soviet pull out so DRA from 1989 is fighting alone that why he change the color because this time no Soviet military on the ground
@@johnmaulana7027 But then, why is still soviet colored?
@@theukrainianmapper385 support providing weapon and other military support but no troops on the ground
"Time for American Troops to come home" also should have meant "Time for America to take all its billions of dollars of equipment and weapons too"
Blame sleepy Joe cuz most US military gear equipment and ammunition sent for the Afghan govt now in the hands of Taliban
@@bobbyalvarez5659 that was the plan :P
America was trying to give the Afghan government a chance to fight against the Taliban. Yes, the US wanted to pull its troops out of Afghanistan, but it didn't want the Taliban to take over. Unfortunately the government was corrupt and too many Afghans were fine with Taliban rule so the whole country collapsed.
All this would never happened if the Afghani King was never disposed
Ehhh, idk. It might have delayed it, but there was already a lot of growing discontent in Afghanistan with the rise of Communist influence in the Army and the reforms of the King.
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Really, didn't they have proofs for Afghanistan that he was guilty? They just instead preferred to send an invasion army.
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At least something good happened from an invasion Wich only put at risk the life of civilians.
He admitted on tv it was a act of war not a act of crime
War makes insane profits. Ask US military industrial complex, they are good at starting wars and selling weapons. Was there proof of WMDs in Iraq? Nope but they still invaded as they wanted to make profit out of it.
@@mmdirtyworkz this is a country called Afghanistan not Iraq?
@@Random_Panda_eating_cake You're right. I mentioned Iraq as it is the same principle. Make wars, make profit. Wham bam thank you mam.
@@mmdirtyworkz the us didn’t intentionally create Afghanistan
Could u provide me your sources?
Interested to know
As a Pakistani nothing makes me more happier than seeing the purple (pakistani Taliban) get kicked out of our country. After years of sacrifices by our military, government, and intelligence we were finally able to fully defeat them in our lands.
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Funny how u paxtanis support taliban yet u don't want them in ur country. Buncha hypocrites
@@V_For_Vigilante we dont support taliban, we just want 0 US occupation in afghanistan, if the afghan people are fine with the taliban then its all ok
@@V_For_Vigilante The Taliban used to be Pashtun nationalists. The Pakistani Taliban still are. The Pashtun people have been split in half by the Duran line, or the Afghan-Pakistan border.
@@dasbubba841 Pashtuns are perfectly happy in Pakistan.
Great job, ,man!
You have so many views on many videos but yet you receive only a couple of thousand subscribers. I think its because of the presentation in your videos. You should improve it by using a more unique coloured description panel (a darker tone usually works fine) and higher resolution maps where neutral countries are represented by more darkish colors rather than plain white (again, dark colours always make it more smooth™).
Why did the soviet backed government last longer then the us one ?
Still trying to understand what we got out of being in Afghanistan for 20 yrs
lots of oil
no al qaeda attacks.
bin Laden killed
Ur a legend sir!
Почему, если СССР вводит войска по официальному приглашению правительства, то это Советско-Афганская война, а если США вводят туда войска по официальному приглашению, то это уже праведная помощь официальному правительству?
Штурм дворца Амина
Амин не просил его убивать, тащемта.
@asahi toki Soviet Union was the furthest thing from Satanic, unlike the Talibans which are terrorists. If the USSR won then Afghanistan would be the richest country in central Asia, behind the USSR of course
@@TheUmbralPresence Ну так это и не делает всех афганцев вдруг врагами Советов. Только Амина и его приближенных.
There is no punsheer resistance alive now in Afghanistan.. kindly update
I don't quite understand why anyone ever thought the Islamic republic would hold out alone, when it could never control the entire country with the help of a superpower.
Now don't get me wrong I wasn't aware at the time of just how fed the situation was as this video shows but knowing the USA had actual combat engagements in a region is really telling.
Taliban doesn't wanna expand, their only demand is to make peace with US and every country and control afghanistan
they weren't there to kill US troops like ISIS is lol, hence why they got in Doha agreement.
and yes they'll need the help of US, China; Russia etc to govern.
@asahi toki it wasn't lol
you could say they won the battle but not the war.
even Qaddafi stated that the taliban's goal is to get afghanistan and cooperate peacefully, he actually stood for them.
the only difference between taliban and the former afghan gov is that one dresses differently, and a bit more desiring for shariah.
U.S was leading the fight and ISAF and not the afghan government from 2001 to 2014.
U.S itself retreated from areas that it could not defend due to terrain, and started its strategy of counter insurgency in populated areas, hence areas like in nuristan province was fallen to taliban.
During the surge (2009-2012) U.S aim was stabilize the situation (create a stale mate) and focus on populated areas and train the afghan army.
After 2014, the gave the responsibility of security to afghans and was just there as a back up with a small number force( from 120k in 2011 to around 15-20k in 2019).
It really says something that Taliban rule is the first time there’s been peace in Afghanistan in 40 years.
What a stupid fcuk u r. The taliban are terrorists who didn't bring any peace at all
Peace? There will never be peace in Afghanistan. The place is still on the verge of civil war.
Only reason their is peace is because their is fear. Wanna keep your head on your shoulders? Do as the Taliban say.
@@Prodelem I wasn’t implying the Taliban are good.
@@Prodelem still better than war
What a suffering for the people of Afghanistan, they deserved much better, let’s hope that the Taliban will treat them in a better way !
@@rudrakshsharma2832 better than western imperalist dogs
peace and security is what they have now.
Unfortunately the Taliban have been treating them horribly
this didnt age well.
Hay que admitir algo aguantar 20 años de guerra contra varias de las mayores potencias del mundo es de admirar... Además de que en cuanto se fueron los yankies no tardaron ni un par de meses en apoderarse de todo Afganistán... No apoyo su ideología pero hay que recalcar la persistencia de esa gente.
Como dicen: "un enemigo que no tiene miedo a la muerte es el más peligroso de todo el planeta"
The Taliban lost every single major battle but they still won the war.
Goddamn!
Sad to see that so much effort and ressources have been spent just to be annihilated by one mans' decision
I feel so bad for those that live in the country I’m sorry our military abandoned your country without a supporting government and the situation is horrible we should have left earlier but this was a mistake and I as a American am sorry for all those that suffered from the war
it's really sad that all the effort they put into the War just for nothing
People in Afghanistan are happy that the foreign invaders left them alone
Now Afghanistan is stable and the fighting is occurring in only 1% of it
lol dude, i can assure you that your country destroyed my nation, k1lled our farmers for no reason and stole lithium and natural gas from our country. we want to be ruled by anyone except non native t3rr0r1sts who claim to be giving democracy and freedom. tal1ban is the same sh1th0le of pakistan
Its kinda amazing that the US left the democratic forces witjin afghsnistan in a worse place than in the early 2000's they completely delegitimized the democratic forces,gave over highly effective equipment to the Taliban and led to a mass withdraw of people who couldve mounted a resistance.
How did the Mujahideen take over most of Afghanistan so quickly?
I think that is only a simplification. The DRA never had much control over the rural areas of the country. So, the mujahideen were already there in 1978-1979, but they began a more furious fight during Amin’s government and after the soviet invasion.
Islam
American and Pakistani support
@@luisantoniomenezes9490 my family is DRA
U mean taliban
you didnt show the terrorist attack in peshawar aps school