During President Joe Biden‘s final call with now-deposed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the weeks leading up to the Taliban’s control of Kabul, the U.S. president called on officials of the Afghan government to fix its public “perception” problem by backing a novel military strategy.

Biden offered U.S. aid to Ghani on the condition that the Afghan leader would publicly display control of the deescalating security situation in the country.

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