Afghanistan pull-out – Radicalized veterans in the US | DW Documentary



US troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan – with heavy emotional baggage. Many veterans are suffering from PTSD. There’s also evidence linking the radicalization of rightwing individuals in the US to their wartime experiences.

The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have left chaos in their wake – and not just in the war zones themselves. Suicide rates among US veterans are strikingly high. Many of the pro-Trump insurrectionists occupying Capitol Hill in January 2021 had a military background. The FBI says veterans of the war in Afghanistan joining white militias now pose one of the biggest threats to US domestic security. Through footage from Afghanistan and exclusive interviews, the film shows how veterans are bringing the war back home.

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42 thoughts on “Afghanistan pull-out – Radicalized veterans in the US | DW Documentary”

  1. The only existing danger is radicalized talibiden; he is destroying the country. He is a liar, corrupted, a tyrant, and a criminal with blood on his hands.

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  2. The people running this country want to rub your face in their corruption,and then if you have a problem with it they demonize you and call you a domestic terrorist.

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  3. Ehh let's not blame guns for veteran suicide shall we, it starts with mental problems caused by them seeing the Afghanistan people weren't an enemy and had to continue and the fact that no proper resources for mental help is what EVENTUALLY leads to them picking up their gun but it's not the guns that need to go it's pointless wars portraying an enemy that magically hates us for no other reason than we are Americans, people who claim to be representing America have to have done something to them and that's undeniable no one hates just to hate. And veterans having to try to get insurance passed for certain medical help is absurd anyone who fights for us should be fully covered medically regardless if it's tied to war or not

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  4. @Chris Hill the Vet with no brains! Go to collage instead playing sausage fest with your boys!! These Vets insult everyone who served America, they serve a man Trump not America!! They have become the unregulated militia our Army would put down just like the confederates!

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  5. 'The Thrull army'
    To tell you what my grandfather told me as he served in ww2 ' they will Always thank you for your service however to them, you are nothing but a bunch of ……' ( they already now know what he said)
    That is EXACTLY what he told me
    That is why I never joined the adf
    Nor never will I do so
    Both voluntary or involuntary

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  6. I see this documentary is following the party line. What I am not clear on is wither it is the Chinese Communist Party of the Democrat Party, mostly because I'm not seeing much of a difference.

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  7. Hate to break it to you DW but veterans come in all different colors. Militias in this country come in all different colors. We're just not buying the absolute bullshit ya'll are selling anymore. And the people who are pissed off come in all different colors. They aren't white right wing extremists. They're just regular people who are seeing through the lies. And when we finally do come together and relegate this cancer destroying our country to the dustbin of history all of the useful idiots who supported this cancer will face a reckoning including outlets like yourself who pumped out ridiculous propaganda like this documentary.

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  8. The fact that you even brought up the capital frankly made this entire thing a waste. I don't see how you can call people who got spit out by policy makers as radical for being mad about it, let alone trying to justify that angle by using an event that happened before the A-Stan pullout. For DW this one was really bottom of the barrel.

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  9. I only did one tour, OEF10. But it was clear to me, even as a 20yo kid, that this was a militarized nation building project that very well could succeed……. in 100 or 200 years. The Taliban were dug in for the way-long game and we weren't. Occupation is all that country and those people know. It didn't take much of a history lesson to figure it out. So it baffles me how our greatest minds at the top couldn't have foreseen the outcome – that this was a commitment we ultimately would not be willing to make.

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  10. Great documentary. Fellow Muslim veteran U.S. Navy. This brings up issues I've been saying since 9/11. Thanks for bringing up the issue involving the fire pits that were made in Iraq and Afghanistan for burning garbage and human/medical waste..

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