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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by AdrianB1 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:08AM (#28187316)
They have 300,000 troops that are either poorly trained, lead by incompetent officers and/or corrupt to the bone. It is expected to lose badly. This was known, that makes the speech a big lie as many speeches of most leaders of most countries.
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Re:Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of coll... by hutzlibu on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:16AM (#28187353)
And wasn't there recently something shared here, that the afghan air force cannot really fly, because the US cancelled their contracted maintainance service?

Also with the sheer size of the US embassy - it rather looks to me like there never was a sovereign afghan government in the first place, so of course they don't stand a chance on its own. It was all too artificial and US dependent.

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