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Ahmad Shuja
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Lawyer • Coauthor, The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
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I spoke with @thediplomat.com about the Taliban and the big powers - the US, China and India.

thediplomat.com/2024/12/ahma...
Ahmad Shuja Jamal on the Taliban and the Big Powers
“Trump’s statements, the views of his senior Cabinet nominees, and the dynamics in Afghanistan do not make recognition [of the Taliban regime] likely in the foreseeable future.”
thediplomat.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Here's an idea for the next arrest warrant by @intlcrimcourt.bsky.social's top prosecutor:

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November 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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is offering a 50% discount on all books for Black Friday -- including on my book with Prof William Maley, The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan.

Get your copy here:
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The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan | Hurst Publishers
A searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate.
www.hurstpublishers.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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The Pacifist

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

- Hilaire Belloc
November 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Invaluable writing by Dan Trombly on likelihoods of far-right street violence in an age of reactionary ascendancy www.unpopularfront.news/p/will-the-s...
I still believe the puzzle of U.S. (non-state) political violence, particularly far-right political violence, is not “why is there so much,” but why, given our relative legal leniency towards violent speech, freedom of association for radicals, the widespread availability of firearms, and a long, violent history of rightist street action against racial minorities and leftists, is there still so little. The absence of substantive organizations and subcultures to effectively direct violent specialists and promote an élan of action and sacrifice is a problem not just for fascist organizing but for far-right organizing generally, a problem that far-right intellectual and electoral successes have not necessarily solved. If Trump’s second term emboldens far-right activists and restores a sense of impunity, that could certainly restore street-level or other forms of political violence to levels we saw in the first - but as we saw in the first term, it does not necessarily mean that we will see these groups transition into an effective and durable fascist movement.
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Lawyers, this is why you need to define your terms 📃
November 23, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Massive congrats to Nila Ibrahimi for winning this award

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November 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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I don’t think it will all fit in there.
Sign on public storage building with lights burnt out in several letters, leaving “Public rage.”
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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The U.S. is sending land mines to Ukraine.

Not a step to take lightly. In Afghanistan, land mines killed people long after the battles they were laid for. Although the U.S. says its mines deactivate after a time. And Russia is already using them.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:37 AM
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Given how both Trump and Biden treated NATO member states in the lead-up to, and during, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, this is sensible
November 19, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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How the world sees lawyers...
November 18, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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Friends! Please follow Afghan analyst and former Afghan National Security Council member Shuja Jamal! And he has a book!
shuja-jamal.bsky.social Ahmad Shuja @shuja-jamal.bsky.social · Nov 18
This is important journalism about the cost of Taliban's totalitarian control in Afghanistan - with a clique of terrorists in charge of public policy, it's the marginalized that pay the price.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Nov 18
Revealed: the truth behind the Taliban’s brutal Kabul ‘regeneration’ programme
November 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM
shuja-jamal.bsky.social
This is important journalism about the cost of Taliban's totalitarian control in Afghanistan - with a clique of terrorists in charge of public policy, it's the marginalized that pay the price.
November 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM