… it literally isn’t. The Taliban wasn’t a ‘splinter group’ of the Mujahedeen government, it was a largely Pakistani-funded and supported initiative whose even most embryonic form post-dates the entire Soviet-Afghan War in creating a paramilitary with the express purpose of overthrowing the previous Mujahedeen government (a goal in which it succeeded).
Because it’s formed from a splinter group of the previously installed government?
… it literally isn’t. The Taliban wasn’t a ‘splinter group’ of the Mujahedeen government, it was a largely Pakistani-funded and supported initiative whose even most embryonic form post-dates the entire Soviet-Afghan War in creating a paramilitary with the express purpose of overthrowing the previous Mujahedeen government (a goal in which it succeeded).
Hey, quick question, who was providing Pakistan with weapons and was allied with them around that time?
In the 1990s, when the Taliban was formed and the US had an arms embargo on Pakistan?
That’s a good question. Do you have any suggestions?
Having an arms embargo doesn’t mean you don’t sell them weapons, apparently. It wasn’t a whole lot of stuff though…
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-06-mn-3321-story.html
But just score free points in this quiz, the answer is “China, but they developed a pretty major arms industry themselves during the embargo”
Intergang?