Soldiers fighting for a paycheck from corrupt govt seen as illegitimate by Afghans vs soldiers fighting to defend homeland from foreign invaders

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The afghans didn’t want to fight. That’s how Assad fell. Syrians defected and he didn’t have enough external support

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Afghan army was pretty weak and despite years of trying to clean it up the US just couldn’t do it, so they all fled when given the opportunity, the Ukrainians are actually putting up a fight bc they care

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