When I heard 30/50 miles a few days ago, I thought, I hope they’re on foot. But I doubt they are. Maybe waiting for more taliban to show up before taking Kabul?
They have all kinds of US supplied transport that was given to them by the Zho Xiden regime. Also weapons and ammunition.
“Maybe waiting for more Taliban to show up before taking Kabul?
The Taliban already own Afghanistan. We went in to try to cut off safe havens and supplies from getting to Al Queda years ago and it actually worked. Al Queda was pretty much chased out. So now that we are bailing is it such a surprise the Taliban is taking over when they not only sense a weakness but see it with the withdrawal of troops and equipment?
On 29 February 2020, the U.S. signed an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw troops in 14 months if the Taliban uphold the terms of the agreement. The Taliban has never upheld any agreement except to other terrorist groups.
As of February 2020, about 13,000 American troops were still in the country. The two sides agreed a gradual, conditions-based withdrawal over 14 months and the withdrawal agreement encompasses “all military forces of the United States, its allies, and Coalition partners, including all non-diplomatic civilian personnel, private security contractors, trainers, advisors, and supporting services personnel.”
In the first phase the U.S. will initially reduce its forces in Afghanistan by about 5,000 troops to 8,600 within 135 days of the U.S.–Taliban agreement. During the gradual withdrawal, the Taliban and the Afghan government would have to work out a more concrete power-sharing settlement. That time frame would give the government the cover of American military protection while negotiating. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the remaining U.S. troops will serve as leverage to ensure the Taliban lives up to its promises. If the Taliban fulfills its commitments to renounce al-Qaeda and begin intra-Afghan peace talks, the U.S. agreed to a complete withdrawal of all remaining American forces from Afghanistan within ten months. We’ve already seen the results of this.
Soon after the withdrawal started, the Taliban launched an offensive against the Afghan government, quickly advancing in front of the collapsing Afghan Armed Forces. By 12 July 2021, the Taliban had seized 139 districts from the Afghan National Army; according to a U.S. intelligence report, the Afghan government would likely collapse within six months after NATO completes its withdrawal from the country. According to The Washington Post, local militias in the north of the country have engaged in combat against the Taliban. Footage taken on 16 June and released on 13 July showed Taliban gunmen executing 22 Afghan servicemen who had been attempting to surrender.
President Joe Biden defended the withdrawal of U.S. troops, saying to trust “the capacity of the Afghan military, who is better trained, better equipped and ... more competent in terms of conducting war.” On 21 July, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, reported that half of all districts in Afghanistan were under Taliban control and that momentum was “sort of” on the side with the Taliban.
It was reported by the UN Security Council in July 2021 that despite the withdrawal and the Taliban agreement, members of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent are still present in as much as 15 Afghan provinces, and that they are operating under Taliban protection in Kandahar, Helmand and Nimroz provinces. My how history repeats itself.
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Not on foot.I saw film of truckloads of these savages headed for Kabul.