I was there too. The "resurgence", from what I saw, were warlords using specialized arab jihadist bombmakers and snipers and Iran (Cabal) funded muslim chechen and arab mercs. Shit was so convoluted. We had orders not to engage the chechens one day, then a couple weeks later a whole convoy of ANA would get wiped, and the chechens were the only ones with the hardware to do it. Then they were just gone (wiped out quietly or exfiltration - mission complete. (unsolved mystery) tribal warlord politics.)
The "Taliban" were just a populist movement, after we cut their leadership off it was all tribal politics playing out under the name of the Taliban. Every disconnected self serving warlord, many allied with Iran, were calling themselves the Taliban for street cred to revive the movement under their own self serving authority.
Not trying to neg your view of it, but its the view most comprehensible or palatable to how Americans see the world. Nations and governmental politics. Afghanistan was incomprehensible.
And to be fair, I was NOT at 40k altitude either, just my recollections that I'm still in in the process of reinterpretting in hindsight with the new information of how the world's power structure actually works, post redpill.
I was there too. The "resurgence", from what I saw, were warlords using specialized arab jihadist bombmakers and snipers and Iran (Cabal) funded muslim chechen and arab mercs. Shit was so convoluted. We had orders not to engage the chechens one day, then a couple weeks later a whole convoy of ANA would get wiped, and the chechens were the only ones with the hardware to do it. Then they were just gone (wiped out quietly or exfiltration - mission complete. (unsolved mystery) tribal warlord politics.)
The "Taliban" were just a populist movement, after we cut their leadership off it was all tribal politics playing out under the name of the Taliban. Every disconnected self serving warlord, many allied with Iran, were calling themselves the Taliban for street cred to revive the movement under their own self serving authority.
Not trying to neg your view of it, but its the view most comprehensible or palatable to how Americans see the world. Nations and governmental politics. Afghanistan was incomprehensible.
And to be fair, I was at 40k altitude either, just my recollections that I'm still in in the process of reinterpretting in hindsight with the new information of how the world's power structure actually works, post redpill.
I was there too. The "resurgence", from what I saw, were warlords using specialized arab jihadist bombmakers and snipers and Iran (Cabal) funded muslim chechen and arab mercs. Shit was so convoluted. We had orders not to engage the chechens one day, then a couple weeks later a whole convoy of ANA would get wiped, and the chechens were the only ones with the hardware to do it. Then they were just gone (wiped out quietly or exfiltration - mission complete. (unsolved mystery) tribal warlord politics.)
The "Taliban" were just a populist movement, after we cut their leadership off it was all tribal politics playing out under the name of the Taliban. Every disconnected self serving warlord, many allied with Iran, were calling themselves the Taliban for street cred to revive the movement under their own self serving authority.
Not trying to neg your view of it, but its the view most comprehensible or palatable to how Americans see the world. Nations and governmental politics. Afghanistan was incomprehensible.