Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo
Phone and internet connections are down nationwide after the Taliban cut fibre-optic connections to prevent “immorality”.
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TBH that seems like the sort of move that gets people to oppose the Taliban. Once a people have had modern living luxuries and amenities, it is difficult for them to ever go without. Once they've got nothing better to do, they will organize and they will become threats to the regime.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Apart from the uncited quote from a “Taliban official”, is there any indication that this isn’t US fuckery in preparation for some sort of armed intervention to capture a certain airbase?