Russia becomes first country to recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban government

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1. *Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced that Russia had become the first country to recognize the Taliban as the ruling government of Afghanistan. Russian state media outlet TASS reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin made the final decision based on advice from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Taliban-led administration has not yet been formally recognized by any other state.*

2. Good job Russia! That’ll show em!

3. What’s the quid pro quo? Does this mean Russia’s about to do a big recruitment drive of poor Afghan men?

4. *Terrorists recognize terrorists.*

   Ok

5. Russia will support anyone that makes their own population miserable.

6. So other countries don’t recognize them but continue to do somewhat business with them? Doesn’t China still have a belt road initiative through Afghanistan?

7. Technically, Taliban is the only government organization that had successfully survived decades long invasions from both Russia and USA in the last 50 years, as far as I know..

8. The irony is ripe. Imagine telling a 1980’s Soviet soldier that their future president would support the very people they were trying to kill.

9. Curious what this means. Recognition doesn’t necessarily equal support, doesn’t seem like they’re going anywhere.

   Did they do this to access their market, military support… all of the above?

10. Russia tried hard invasion of afghanistan for years…now to try some soft invasion.

11. didn’t realize they hadn’t been recognised by most countries. I can just about understand the coalition countries not having accepted them, but why no one else?

12. Russia works with talibans, the Us with Syrian fanatics…i think the memes from 2010’s are becoming a reality

13. Russia’s whole thing with foreign diplomacy (or at least part of it) this last 5 years or so seems to be trying to prove to the world that it actually has a lot of friends outside of the west and that it doesn’t actually need the support of the developed world.

    Problem is that most of these other countries that it tries to claim are its friends aren’t really, at best they are ambivalent to Russia and more just allies of convenience. Ultimately the majority of these relationships probably won’t actually go very far in practical terms but who knows.

    Also, Russia keeps trying to boast relations with far away countries but ultimately the best alliances you can have are always going to be with your immediate neighbours and a majority of those (North America, eastern Europe, the caucus region, Kazakhstan, Mongolia) are either outright hostile or extremely distrustful.

14. Russian government trying to beat the pure evil allegations [challenge level: impossible]

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