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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Taliban 2.0: Inside Afghanistan’s new hardline regime
Description: The overnight Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 shocked the world. But who is behind the hardline regime running the country? After 20 years of insurgency against the US-backed government in Kabul, how have they changed since they were last in power? Doomsday Watch host Arthur Snell is joined by Hassan Abbas, author of The Return of the Taliban Afghanistan after the Americans Left, to explore the factions vying for power and which international countries have their eyes on Afghanistan.
“The US were spending billions of dollars on a state-building project.”
“The Taliban are not one ‘thing’ but many di...