In a tweet, Rui said:

The Afghans need to raise their awareness and recognization of the idea of 'Statehood' - the basics to establish any modern country. The 'Every person is a tribal person, or an ethnic person' approach has denied Afghanistan of modernity once. It will again.

One faction, or one interest group, that desires to achieve dominance in a region like Afghanistan can do so by superior military force. They can achieve that superiority on their own and/or by alliance with a foreign power. Such a solution suppresses conflicts with and among their several contending counterparts, The solution is particularly unstable when withdrawal of the foreign alliance partner weakens their military situation and may cause them to lose dominance.

While it is internally divided, its energies are likely to be squandered on internal strife, and the whole region is less able to resist conquest from the outside.

As with competitions among nations, few if any actors are willing to yield their own sovereignty to a union of nations.

In a tweet, Rui said:

Afghans were known for being open-up and inclusive when they were busy brokering trade on the Silk Road. Now Afghanistan is the hotbed for religious zealots and extremists, both before and after the US intervention. So why?

Was this change associated in time with the end of the Kingdom in 1973, the military coup in 1978, the Soviet incursion during the 1980s, the dominance of the Taliban from around 1996, or with the US occupation starting in 2001?

In a tweet, Rui said:

The strong and unremitting commitment to religious faith rather than the idea of science and progress landed Afghanistan nowhere but a Taliban takeover in 1996. And again this year.

Is the majority of people under Taliban control really bound to them by the Taliban's brand of Islam? Or is it that the Taliban members are bound by the ideology and therefore follow directions from the Taliban leadership to oppress and subdue the ordinary people? When and where did the militarization of “fundamentalist” Islam begin? How was it carried to Afghanistan? How well was it accepted by existing religious authorities?

In a tweet, Rui asked:

With the advent of the new Afghanistan, some questions need to be answered. For example, how can a tribal society be transformed into a modern society? How can a patriarchal government be replaced by a political system that emphasizes the protection of human rights and gender equality?What would be the best form of government that serves ethnic unity instead of deepening the ethnic divide?

What would be the best form of government that serves ethnic unity instead of deepening the ethnic divide Also: کدام درسته؟ آیا پشتونها دوباره تحت پوشش افراط گرایی اسلامی بر افغانستان حکومت می کنند؟ یا دین سالاری اسلامی از طریق افراط گرایی پشتون؟ یا آیا پشتون ها به سادگی تصمیم می گیرند که افغانستان باید توسط آنها اداره شود ، حتی از طریق دولت افراط گرایی؟ Translated from Persian: Which is right? Are Pashtuns ruling Afghanistan again under the guise of Islamic extremism? Or Islamic theocracy through Pashtun extremism? Or do Pashtuns simply decide that Afghanistan should be ruled by them, even through an extremist government?**

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