yeahhhhh nah. that's the watered down version yal got on TV and from these reporters who suddenly decided to care
the taliban up in the videos had been dialing their fukkery back for years even before the last elections to play nice so that the US would pack up and leave sooner - and at the same time the US has done all sorts of things to reduce the chances of soldiers getting killed. reduced if not wiped all ground resupply stuff, no more presence patrol bullshyt, stopped training and cohabitating with ANA, pulling away from the biggest hotspots, etc. not even counting all the ways ppl generally got better at protecting themselves over the years.
the wild boys who will put you in a mixtape never left. the US just stopped trying to be everywhere and focused on the shyt actually worth protecting instead of useless hills in the middle nowhere.... people seen their brothers, fathers, sons, etc die ain't ever gonna "lose their fighting ire" man. cmon now