• Wisely@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban on February 29th, 2020 to withdraw by May 1st 2021. Most troops were withdrawn.

    https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

    Biden extended the date to by August 31st but it fell to the Taliban ~ August 6th-15th.

    Biden blames it on the Afghan Army not fighting and President fleeing the country. He is probably deflecting but I am not seeing anything about the Taliban having any major military victories or strategy besides showing up and announcing themselves.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they had eventually won with their experience like you said but it doesn’t appear that they needed to fight.