MSNBC Way Too Early August 12, 2021 09:48:00
And tribal loyalties. the taliban have their historical linguistic base in the south. the rest of the country is divided. so the loyalty, first and foremost, is not to the government. it's often to the tribe or local leader. so the fault lines now are coming to the fore. and also the afghan military, a lot of it is a paper military. the numbers thrown around, 175,000, 200,000 troops, many of those are paper troops. the people don't show up for work. so the taliban are incentivized, organized and ideological, and the government forces essentially are not prepared to stand and fight for the most...
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