There have been several insightful interviews in German media with an ex-soldier who is part of a network that tried to support former local contractors of the

There have been several insightful interviews in German media with an ex-soldier who is part of a network that tried to support former local contractors of the German government and NGOs. He says the biggest problem was that they were not politically allowed to acknowledge the rampant corruption, which the locals pointed out as the most important problem preventing them from "rebuilding". Not just bribes but it seems in some ways the entire country just consisted of small gangs uninterested in what the Western appointed government had to say. He also says almost 80% of these contractors are being left behind by the German government and have targets on their backs because their collaboration makes them "infidels" in the eyes of the Taliban, though they seem to be allowing those with non-Afghan passports to leave, at the moment.