Taliban claims to control 85% of Afghanistan after rapid gains
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The Taliban have been emboldened by the NATO troop withdrawal and appear to be pressing for a full military victory.

The Afghan government seems to be on the edge of collapse and the US hasn't even left yet. ANA soldiers are deserting and fleeing across the borders to their Central Asian neighbors. Some generals are drafting untrained civilians to plug the gaps, and the Taliban have isolated many provencal capitals so that they can only be supplied from the air.

The empire is fading comrades, the war is almost over.

  • 1267 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    China is also becoming increasingly influential in the Central Asian states that border Afghanistan to the north. Aware of Beijing’s sensibilities, all these countries have long steered clear of condemning the mass incarceration of fellow Muslims in Xinjiang and other human-rights abuses there.

    Cope, losers. The narrative isn't sticking.