This
People are oddly desperate to put a price tag on Taliban income yet rarely pay attn to veracity, rigor or how complex it is to actually calculate. And, no surprise, it's often politicised
If people like Franz and David are calling estimates questionable, listen to themhttps://twitter.com/franzjmarty/status/1309446211649384448 …
Fair... but surely they can do a bit better than publishing anonymous "intelligence estimates" as implied fact or evidence? (and, of course, the UN is big and full of many brilliant people, and not all of the UN does this...)