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I skimming your link, it seems the Taliban didn’t take significant territory until the US pulled out altogether. In the time during which the US was not activel

I skimming your link, it seems the Taliban didn’t take significant territory until the US pulled out altogether. In the time during which the US was not actively fighting on the ground but was providing logistic support and air strikes and so on, the Taliban were effectively kept at bay.

avsteele 5y ago
You need to look a bit more carefully, and ideally at more than just at the one link. The US and gov controlled the country entirely at one point. By 2017 The large swaths of the country are contested. 61% by 2018. The writing was on the wall. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/08/world/asia/us-misleads-on-afghanistan.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/08/world/asia/us...