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WAR 1 - Last Plane Out of Kabul

COMMONS

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How the Taliban Marched Into Coble

Afghanistan is a country where the richest nations on earth spent trillions of dollars and deployed the most sophisticated military armaments in human history. On august fifteenth, 20 21, around one thousand taliband fighters were able to take control of koble, the capital of a country that was said to have 300 thousand soldiers at its disposal. We're going to tell it to you through the eyes of the people who are there. Their stories show us what happens when you break a country, build it back up in your own image, make it utterly reliant on you and then abandon it.

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