123. Is the Taliban Taking Over Afghanistan?
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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We speak to Afghan journalist Lotfullah Najafizada about the recent US withdrawal from Afghanistan and how the Taliban is making rapid military advances across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and |
| 0:08.4 | underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to journalist Lott Fuller. |
| 0:17.6 | Naja Fizala. He's an Afghan journalist. He is born, raised in Afghanistan. He lives there. He's going to be speaking to us about what's going on on the ground. |
| 0:28.4 | Obviously the US troops have pulled out recently and the Taliban is sweeping across the country. |
| 0:35.0 | A lot of the Afghan military just abandoning their posts. The Taliban are becoming |
| 0:39.6 | very powerful again. A lot fuller is going to talk to us all about that. If you like |
| 0:45.8 | what we're doing please consider supporting us at patreon.com slash popular |
| 0:51.0 | front. front. Obviously there's, you know, |
| 0:54.0 | you're |
| 0:55.0 | a |
| 0:58.0 | you know |
| 1:00.0 | obviously there's you know a very bad situation right now in Afghanistan. |
| 1:04.0 | The Taliban is just sweeping across the country by the looks of it. |
| 1:07.6 | Maybe just explain to us what is actually happening right now. |
| 1:11.6 | Why is this so rapidly advance across the country? |
| 1:15.0 | Well post withdrawal of the US forces there has been a dramatic shift in the battlefield. The Taliban have taken more than a hundred and 85 districts out of the 420 plus or so in just in the past couple of months and that has been I think |
| 1:40.1 | significant the Taliban controlled only 15 to 20 districts in the past 20 years. |
| 1:49.8 | So relatively speaking, this has been a huge shift. |
| 1:59.7 | And that has created a lot of anxiety, |
| 2:01.9 | a lot of concerns, a lot of concerns about the peace process and |
| 2:05.4 | what's going to happen to the peace process are the Taliban really serious about it or |
| 2:09.5 | not are they after the military takeover and I think that has taken a lot of people |
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