Northern Afghanistan is falling decisively, as are major southern cities like Kandahar. On Thursday, one of the big losses was in central Afghanistan, where Ghazni City was taken by the Taliban.
The 10th provincial capital the Taliban took (the total was 12 by day’s end), the value of Ghazni is not just in its own value as a city, but in its location on the main Afghan highway, less than 100 miles from the capital of Kabul.
Just a week into the offensive, the amount of territory changing hands is giving the Taliban a sense of overwhelming momentum. The fall of Kabul would be effectively game over for the Ghani government. The fall of Ghazni just makes that closer to happening.
Ghazni’s governor, Daoud Laghmani, was reported arrested, and accused of handing over the city in a secret deal with the Taliban. The Interior Ministry claimed security forces are still resisting in other parts of the province.
Cities falling with limited resistance is becoming increasingly common, however, with the Taliban’s rate of advance and the government’s rare use of reinforcements, many seem to believe they’re better off surrendering than fighting it out.
This one was one of bootlicker ghani’s favored governors. He tried to put him in one of the cities by replacing a popular governor failing that he put him here. Us empire is so incompetent that they put such a failure as a head of state when they could’ve easily supported a,more competent person. Ghani had no power base he is there simply because us put him there
I also read that Ismail Kham, the “Lion of Herat” has surrendered and joined the Taliban.
TL:DR: nobody wants to be left holding the bag.
Nice to hear that Afghaniston is being returned to the Afghans. The invasion was totally brain dead. We will probably never who made the fateful decision to invad and long term occupy the empire killer state. Was it Bush or Netanyahu?? Who ever it was was a fool, so I guess that points to the shrub.