A major Taliban offensive has been raging in Afghanistan, particularly in the north, for weeks on end. The latest figures from Afghanistan’s TOLOnews puts June at a troubling height of the war, the deadliest single month in 20 years.
Violence was staggeringly high throughout this period, though exact death tolls for individual days are often in dispute, making the totals, while undoubtedly huge, somewhat in doubt.
The news, culled from government reports, had 638 people who were either military or civilians killed in the fighting, and over 6,000 Taliban also killed in just a single month.
This centers on Afghanistan’s government always reporting many more Taliban killed than their own soldiers, but the trend on the ground was opposite, with the Taliban making massive gains over the government.
120 districts have been evacuated in the face of the Taliban offensive, and they’ve reached provincial capitals in at least three provinces, contested cities big and small across the region. The Afghan security forces are losing ground consistently.
It was recently reported that the Israelis had succeeded in producing cloaking devices for it’s soldiers. Afghanis on the other hand, just like the Iraqis have ghost soldiers in their armies.
The Taliban know, for a fact, the US has not just given up trying to destroy Afghanistan in order to steal all the minerals and export opium without interference.
So, they must work to secure all of their country immediately so that whatever the US “plan B” was, it will fail.
I have bought gourmet popcorn to hopefully watch the helicopter evacuation of the massive US Embassy complex in Kabul.
Like a “Fall of Saigon” sequel.