LOOOOOL @ the afghan president fleeing the country under the guise of "preventing further bloodshed", um yeah, his own.
Truly spineless cowards run that country
I don't blame the ANA for folding that fast. Why fight when the leader will just bail in a second?
I feel bad for the innocent people caught in the middle
From my understanding, the "state of Afganistan" is a western invention constantly attempting to be imposed on a culture of people that have relied highly only tribal structures to run their society forever. For a state to survive or be built you'll need people to truly believe in the state even at the cost of their lives. This was never the case. The people, again from my understanding, who made up the institutions of the state like the army for example did it for monetary and practical reasons. Not because they want to defend the afgan government. The Taliban is purely ideologically driven and that will beat out what are essentially mercenaries every time.
Even members of the army and the government itself were more sympathetic to the Taliban than the laughable "state" that US tried to impose on the region.