Hes full of bs watch his videos from 10 years ago he said taliban would never take over all of Afghanistan because of different ethnic tribes and tajiks will never let taliban rule everything he said turned out to be false
Not at all. The Taliban control Kabul (at least last time I checked). It is nominally in charge of the whole state. But Taliban rule (like any rule in Afghanistan) has never gone very deep. In fact, that is the basic insight that Barfield makes over and over. Different foreign powers (the U.S., the U.K., the U.S.S.R., Persia, the Greeks under Alexander the Great) have maintained varying degrees of the control of the state as a whole. But the extent of that control was wider than deep. Real political power is at the tribal level (those tribes being, in some cases, as big as major cities). So, the Taliban have some control over the state as a whole. They are who foreign powers need to deal with (at least in the first instance, they doubtless have relationships to the various tribes). But they don't rule in the sense that we in the West (or the countries of East Asia) think of as "ruling".
I LOVE Prof. Barfield's insight and his style.🤓
Hes full of bs watch his videos from 10 years ago he said taliban would never take over all of Afghanistan because of different ethnic tribes and tajiks will never let taliban rule everything he said turned out to be false
Who knows, the way Afghanistan is he could still end up right
@@bigmofarah9084 lmao 🤣 😂 😆 keep hoping 🙏 mate
@@KamBam-ni3ptHow is that hoping? Do you really see the terrorist Taliban in power for the next five yeti ? If so, you must be delusional!
Taliban zindabad
Not at all. The Taliban control Kabul (at least last time I checked). It is nominally in charge of the whole state. But Taliban rule (like any rule in Afghanistan) has never gone very deep. In fact, that is the basic insight that Barfield makes over and over. Different foreign powers (the U.S., the U.K., the U.S.S.R., Persia, the Greeks under Alexander the Great) have maintained varying degrees of the control of the state as a whole. But the extent of that control was wider than deep. Real political power is at the tribal level (those tribes being, in some cases, as big as major cities).
So, the Taliban have some control over the state as a whole. They are who foreign powers need to deal with (at least in the first instance, they doubtless have relationships to the various tribes). But they don't rule in the sense that we in the West (or the countries of East Asia) think of as "ruling".