The Taliban returns to power / Martine van Bijlert

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Writer and researcher Martine van Bijlert on her articles "The Taleban leadership converges on Kabul as remnants of the republic reposition themselves" and "Afghanistan Has a New Government: The country wonders what the new normal will look like" for The Afghanistan Analysts Network. https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/the-taleban-leadership-converges-on-kabul-as-the-remnants-of-the-republic-try-to-reposition-themselves/ https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/afghanistan-has-a-new-government-the-country-wonders-what-the-new-normal-will-look-like/

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0:00.0	The Nix
0:01.8	Nixlai's not a little mizos
0:04.7	what can cross aside
0:06.8	and that kakun you a nikkon is like
0:10.8	so that I can't tell you Make it out there.
0:13.0	It out.
0:15.0	Make it back!
0:25.0	back! This is hell.
0:35.0	hell.
0:40.0	not the media.
0:42.0	This is not the media. This is hell. The fall of Afghanistan's government in return to the
0:47.5	Taliban to power just in time for the 20th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11.
0:53.0	Caught the United States government, the Biden administration,
0:55.4	and the US media all by surprise.
0:58.2	It shouldn't have, but it did.
1:00.3	There are clear signs that the Taliban were organizing, making alliances throughout the countryside, and its forces were on the move as one provincial government after another was falling to the Taliban.
1:10.0	The hope was that the Afghan National Security Forces, which the U.S. had trained, armed, and heavily financed,
1:15.6	could hold out for maybe a year, maybe two against the Taliban, and during that time progress could be made in ongoing peace talks. But those hopes
1:25.1	disappeared as quickly as did the government's police and military uniforms
1:28.8	which were quickly discarded as those who had fought the Taliban for the past 20 years feared violent if not deadly
1:36.8	reprisals. The Afghan public weary of 20 years of war were expecting an intense battle between government forces in the Taliban and a potential
1:44.6	fight for the nation's capital, Kabul. Instead, there was no engagement and the Taliban made
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