was there nazism in the war in Afghanistan 2001

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During the war in Afghanistan that began in 2001, there was no official or organized presence of Nazism as a political movement. The conflict primarily involved the United States and its allies fighting against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which are extremist Islamist groups. The ideologies and motivations of these groups are fundamentally different from those of Nazism, which is based on principles of racial superiority and nationalism.

However, discussions around extremism and terrorism sometimes involve various comparisons and references to historical ideologies, including Nazism, to illustrate the nature of radical beliefs. While there could have been individual cases of far-right or neo-Nazi sympathizers who took an interest in the broader context of conflict or terrorism, these do not reflect a significant or organized role in the Afghan conflict of that period.