We had to pull out eventually; we couldn’t keep propping up the national government forever. But Trump’s deal which released some 5,000 veteran Taliban fighters (with the final offensive consisting of no more than 80,000 Taliban fighters in total), and did so without involving the national government in negotiations at all, sealed the fate of post-war Afghanistan. With the Taliban significantly reinforced and the national government humiliated and stripped of what little legitimacy it had by peace negotiations held without its input, there was no other way it was going to go.
That these tankie fucks positively bootlick the Taliban just makes them more repulsive in light of that.
We had to pull out eventually; we couldn’t keep propping up the national government forever. But Trump’s deal which released some 5,000 veteran Taliban fighters (with the final offensive consisting of no more than 80,000 Taliban fighters in total), and did so without involving the national government in negotiations at all, sealed the fate of post-war Afghanistan. With the Taliban significantly reinforced and the national government humiliated and stripped of what little legitimacy it had by peace negotiations held without its input, there was no other way it was going to go.
That these tankie fucks positively bootlick the Taliban just makes them more repulsive in light of that.