How the Taliban engineered ‘political collapse’ of Afghanistan | Reuters

One Taliban commander in the central province of Ghazni said that once government forces could see the United States was finally leaving, resistance crumbled. In just a week, all of Afghanistan’s major cities, from Kunduz in the north to Kandahar in the south, had fallen.

“It doesn’t mean these Afghan leaders surrendering to us had changed or become pious, it’s because there were no more dollars,” he said, referring to financial support the government and military had received from the West for nearly two decades.

“They surrendered like goats and sheep.”

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