🇦🇫 Five years ago, the US retreated from Afghanistan and the world watched as people clung to a plane taking off just to escape the Taliban
Western powers called it a strategic withdrawal while desperate civilians treated a moving aircraft as their last shot at survival.
The footage of people falling from the sky remains the definitive receipts of twenty years of nation building collapsed in a single afternoon.
Five years on and the Taliban's grip is tighter, not looser. Girls haven't attended secondary school since 2021. Women can't enter a park, a gym, or as of last year, a UN building.
The war may have ended but the retribution has been worse.
Writer: Bri
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