#WR: The corruption of the Afghan government was key factor for the Taliban's return. “The Taliban advance came very quickly, but it was years in the making.” How the militants won control of Afghanistan. https://wsj.com/articles/how-taliban-won-afghanistan-shadow-government-recruitment-11629299900?st=utbarbz887gu021&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ
According to a series of stories of the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Deutsche Well, the Kabul's government didn't pay in time salaries of the Afghan troops and the "militias" they formed to stop the advance of the Taliban's militants.
Days previous to the fall of the President, he made a series of trips to 'promise' immediate payment of the wages of the defenders of the government.
Remember my previous RETHINKING titled "A Medicine after Death"
SOURCES: WSJ, NYT, Deutsche Welle
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