...Arabic for students...
controls most of Afghanistan. US intelligence estimates made public just over a week ago predicted that the Afghan government could fall within 90 days. It fell in less than a week. While most of the country, including the capital of Kabul, is under Taliban control, there is a brewing resistance in the Panjshir Valley.
First, it is worth noting just how disastrous the Afghan National Army performed in their "resistance" against the Taliban. US intelligence should have expected such a disastrous outcome. Biden and various other administration officials have repeated the line that the Afghans had 300,000 military personnel. This is a blatant lie that even legacy media acknowledges. This figure includes nearly 100,000 Afghan National Police officers. Even with this fake third, 200,00 supposedly "well-trained" and certainly well-equipped troops were expected to hold against a roughly 75,000-man strong Taliban equipped with Soviet-era arms. The Afghan National Army, which the United States spent decades training and billions of dollars equipping, fell because of corruption and a lack of will. This 200,000 figure is likely a large overestimation, as corrupt Afghan military officials create "ghost soldiers" to line their pockets. When Afghan military leaders included fake or dead people on their rosters, they can pocket their salaries, wasting money and creating a false sense of military strength.