Is probably just for propaganda's sake but generally, yes. In any war and even if the enemy are tribal rebels etc, they always have their training grounds.
It is for propaganda and for openly training. I am sure this living and training ground was very much known to the Western militaries. The Western governments have accepted the Taliban government and will not fight further. This came through a process that included the training of this commando unit. Even some years ago the Taliban were forcing farmer to grow opium and sold that to CIA. Taliban fighters were also being carried aboard US air force planes to the battlefields of Syria to fight against the common ideological enemy - the government of Bashar al Assad.
Taliban are actually more dangerous with their usual local garb on
Agree.
as someone noted earlier on in the thread.
Well, I knew of this thread at the start but lost interest but posted today. I was in recent days disgusted by
@FOOLS_NIGHTMARE posting deliriously happy multiple threads about the Taliban's takeover in different cities and their updates and many other members being so happy about this.
It'll be interesting to see where they take that country now, most missions have evacuated but the Talibs want to be part of the global community of nation states and have legitimacy, apparently. Talk is cheap, though.. let us see how things on the ground so...
The US will very likely still be in the picture spl with regard to global finance etc, wonder what role China will play there and how much they'll be willing to prop the Talibs up if at all.
1. Two or three days ago - before the takeover of Kabul - China, USA, Pakistan and India had said that they will accept the next government "as long as there is no further fighting for Kabul". It was clearly known even back then that the Taliban will form a mostly exclusive government which may include elements from the previous government ( I had been saying this too ). So these four governments have accepted the Taliban government.
2. Yesterday there was a post of a vid of the Chinese government CGTN TV channel with a female anchor interviewing the international spokesperson of the Taliban, Suhail Shaheen, and asking to the effect what will be the structure of the Taliban government. Basically again acceptance of the Taliban.
3. Many of the PDF Chinese members have been posting in support of the Taliban government. No Chinese member has posted a recent thread condemning the acts of the Taliban and the takeover. They are just echoing their government.
4. Afghanistan has some consumer and industrial mineral deposits like gold, copper and lithium and maybe others. China and the West will want to extract those and this is part of their acceptance of Taliban government.
5. Of course the Western governments wouldn't have wanted progressives in Afghanistan to have had even a tiny chance of forming governance instead of the Taliban. I know of one such progressive, leftist movement called the
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan. The West doesn't want Muslim-majority countries to have progressive governances, hence the 2011 invasion of Libya and the current 10-year-old war in Syria. This sort of thing goes back all the way to post-WW2 years.
The Talibs could go the Iranian view and have their guy, some fat old mullah sit as supreme spiritual leader who lords over the polity and have a version of that style of democracy.
I think this is already being drawn up.
As of now they've very decentralized, any rogue commander, of which there must be thousands, could nuke any of the Taliban's strategic plans for the country, if they even have a strategic plan.
Possible.
I don't know what they have been feeding these guys or how they have been training them but look at the results:
They have defeated the biggest, most advanced and powerful military machine ever known to mankind PLUS 43 nations of NATO COMBINED!!!!!!!!!!..................This is probably the biggest or one of the biggest achievements of mankind EVER!!!!...........
You are wrong. If you want to know what a 40+ military invasion by NATO looks like you have to look at the 2011 invasion of Libya by the NATO+GCC air forces, navies, commandos and the thousands of their transnational mullah criminal allies. Look at the ten-year-old Syria war where the country has been overrun by tens of thousands of transnational criminals support politically and logistically by NATO and GCC.
Lastly, the Taliban is a co-creation of the Western governments and has now been conveniently accepted by them. Same as between 1996 and 2001 during the first so-called Islamic Emirate. All that fighting in the middle by NATO was half-hearted
