The Taliban’s imminent takeover of Kabul and the U.S.’s quick evacuation of its personnel comes after Biden predicted just last month the likelihood of the insurgent group “overrunning everything” and taking over the country was “highly unlikely,» stating, «There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan,” Biden said on July 8.

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