I think the Taliban were making private deals to each of the Warlords to basically roll up the whole government coalition all at once.

Probably pretty easy to do. That is a section of the world where your word is still supposed to mean something, and we gave our word that we would be gone by May. When Biden/his Handlers decided to unilaterally changed the leave date for entirely PR-based reasons, it would have been trivial for the Taliban to go to the warlords and say "Look, the Great Satan prepares to betray us yet again." And of course, those warlords are just going to say "Say no more fam. You have my militias."

The establishment is our enemy (since they have deemed us to be theirs), and they aren't capable of defending damn near anything.

And on that note, I dont think they really grasp what beast they are feeding outside of their Woke institutions out here in the real world. Because in my neck of the woods, this whole farce has just been taken as another thing to quietly seethe over, and one more grudge to go in The Book. I suppose the only thing I can hope for is that its turned into political action that makes the TEA Party look downright tiny.