Following their rapid advance across Afghanistan in recent days, the Taliban expressed concerns about the fact that they “actually have to govern this shithole now.”

“The whole insurgency thing was fun, and capturing the major population centers was surprisingly easy,” said Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada. “But governing this godforsaken hellscape is going to be an absolute nightmare.”

Many Taliban leaders are worried that decades of waging an insurgency have not given them the appropriate skills to effectively govern a diverse country of 39 million people.