The Taliban launched a fierce offensive in Afghanistan, taking three provincial capitals in three days, and the Afghan government forces were a bit overwhelmed. Afghan Taliban forces on Sunday announced the occupation of three provincial capitals, including the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz. The Associated Press commented on August 8 that the will of resistance of the Afghan government forces is too poor, and the Taliban's offensive capability has exceeded the expectations of the US military, resulting in the situation in Afghanistan developing in a direction unfavorable to the US military. Now that the U.S. military has withdrawn more than 95 percent of its forces from Afghanistan, it is difficult for the remaining forces to play any role just to maintain the presence of the U.S. military.
The Taliban's offensive momentum is indeed beyond the expectations of the outside world, after many experts analyzed that the Taliban did not have the ability to attack large cities, but within 3 days the Taliban took three provincial capitals. Although the US military dispatched warplanes to carry out heavy bombing and caused considerable losses to the Taliban vanguard troops, these could not change the momentum of the Taliban's attack. The Taliban are currently besieging more than a dozen provincial capitals at the same time, and in addition to the three provincial capitals that have already been taken, the Taliban have also achieved breakthroughs in other provincial capitals.
The Afghan government army, on the other hand, is very passive, has the taste of defeat, and appears to be powerless in many places. In order to make the Afghan government army assume the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of the US military, the US military has sent more than 70 billion US dollars of equipment to the Afghan government army. But to the surprise of the US military, most of these equipment were snatched by the Taliban in a completely new state.
The Afghan governor vowed to fight the last bullet, but the next second he fled, and the Taliban warned the U.S. military. Surrender is the most common choice for Afghan government forces recently, and it is also the most helpless place for the US military. The speaker of parliament in a province of Afghanistan voluntarily surrendered to the Taliban and handed over a large amount of weapons and equipment to the Taliban. The governor of Afghanistan's Takhar province mobilized enthusiastically in the face of the Taliban attack, claiming that he would fight the Taliban to the end, never surrender, fight to the last breath, and fight the last bullet.
However, not long after the mobilization was completed, the governor led the troops, officials, and family members to flee the provincial capital, the city of Tharlocán. The governor voluntarily fled, and the Taliban easily occupied the provincial capital. The governor mobilized to fight the last bullet, but then fled first, which was also a great blow to the hearts and minds of the Afghan government. After fleeing, the governor said, "I don't want our city to become a sea of fire, and evacuation is the best way to keep the city intact." The governor was the representative of a large number of Afghan government officials, who always fled first at critical moments, which led to a very weak will to resist by the Afghan Government forces.
The U.S. military began air strikes, but the Taliban, instead of being afraid, issued a serious warning to the U.S. military. A spokesman for the Taliban's political office issued a grave warning to U.S. troops, saying "we warn the United States not to interfere in Afghanistan." The spokesman said that if the US military continues to intervene in the situation in Afghanistan, then the US military will be attacked and will pay a heavy price. Obviously, although the United States, India and other countries actively support the Afghan government forces, the current situation does make the United States and India very helpless.