Taliban bounties would be a new low even for Putin

James Stavridis, Bloomberg (USA)
When I visited Moscow as the NATO commander of the Afghan mission almost 30 years later, I met with the man who had been the last Soviet general in Afghanistan. He said to me that we Americans had “Russian blood on your hands“. But that was very different from allegedly providing cash payments to Taliban fighters for killing individual American soldiers, especially as peace talks are unfolding.