The locals were stuck between a corrupt government supported by an occupying power and the Taliban. Elections were stolen, violence endemic, and poverty widespread. And now, EU is willing to work with the Taliban as it does with countless authoritarian regimes to prevent illegal immigration. They want to empower the captors and legitimize a new dictatorship.

NATO is responsible for this mess, indiscriminate bombing, propping unpopular and corrupt leadership, injustices. Why would any afgan let alone women fight for them? To be abandoned by them once Taliban are back?