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Joe Biden: “The likelihood there`s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.…”

On the recordAugust 15, 2021
The likelihood there`s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. We have trained and equipped a standing force of over 300,000 Afghan personnel today. There`s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

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Biden reassures that the Taliban is unlikely to take over Afghanistan and that the Afghan forces are adequately prepared.

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