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    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.