Right now it does look like they are unified under a central command. However, how that is in practice remains to be seen. The growing sophistication of the taliban economy shows there are more ways for them earn money. During this offensive, they captured key border posts and regional countries kept on trading. So we're looking at a kind of more conventional state player with more conventional sources of funding.

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