Lots of claims above that the Taliban enjoy "massive" public support in Afghanistan.
Like a lot of conventional wisdom about Afghanistan it is a view that is dependent on knowing very little about the place, on having never seriously talked to any Afghans and on certain assumptions that are frankly racist.
Or you can add War Nerd types paid to the hilt by Russian intelligence to propagate the polar opposite anything the similarly deluded Pentagon want us to believe.
I honestly think those who tow such lines are often just arguing out of bad faith or ulterior motives rather than pig ignorance, which actually has made it more dangerous a rhetoric.
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