claim: Taliban routing tons of fighters into kabul sort of wonder if there was a window for increasing US capabilities in the capitol that started last week when people realized shit was going sideways but has diminished rather dramatically since and continues to closehttps://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1428569807587356672 …
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one interesting thing though is that the entire economy of Afghanistan might be on the verge of collapsing im not a domain expert, this is just speculation but impression is that huge portions of the economy and esp. government were dependent on foreign aid and that is Gone now
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reportedly government checks are supposed to go out on the 31st and clearly wont so who knows. Taliban might be in deep shit if their fighters decide they actually wanna get paid at some point, and leadership can't get donors lined up
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I guess I’m not so cynical as to believe Taliban fighters were previously dependent on government checks one way or another finding there way into their hands (though perhaps I should be).
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to the extent that government forces went over en masse they may have been also old Taliban regime may have taken in a ton of international aid reportedly the Buddha statue blowing up was related to nonpayment of some stream of aid
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