Did the Taliban Win Without a Fight?

Sam Young
4 min readAug 18, 2021

A few hours after I posted my article criticizing BadEmpanada’s unfortunate predictions for the reconquest of Afghanistan, he posted another video backtracking his prediction and explaining why he was really right all along. Apparently, he had put too much faith in the perceived legitimacy of the US-backed government, and the people of Afghanistan let the puppet state crumble basically without a fight. He was never wrong that…

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Sam Young

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