CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar

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12. It's nothing more than centuries of "clan" warfare

I know people also call it "tribal", which I suppose is a synonymous word but it's sortof like what happened in Libya.

You have competing "clans"/"tribes" who have their "leaders" and/or "elders" (religious in their case) who oversee groups of people, and they institute trade between each other.

In Europe back in their "Middle ages", they called them "fiefdoms". You had certain individuals/families who controlled a large plot of land ("territory" ) and whoever lived there was expected to be loyal to whoever owned/controlled that area. They weren't "royalty" but had accumulated wealth (by whatever means necessary - including via conflicts over successive generations to obtain more resources), so they could institute some type of "law and order" by "paying for protection of their "territory".

This type of entrenched system of governance eschews any kind of "central" ("national" ) control overseeing these "big fish in their little ponds".