A few thousand Taliban are enough to overcome their "unmatchable" military.
Right, according to SIPRI, Russia spent nearly $72 billion on arms in 2011- considering the current situation that number is propably way way higher. Haters gonna hate...
I repeat Russia will
never be able to win against Taliban(backed by US).
Just a few noticeable figures tightly connected with Taliban and Al-Qaida, who fought against Russia in the North Caucasus. All dead by now.
Ibn al-KhattabSpent the period between 1989 and 1994 in Afghanistan, where he had met Osama Bin Laden. Khattab underwent training in Afghanistan and had close connections with Al-Qaida. Killed by the Russian FSB in March 2002.
Abu al-WalidParticipated in jihad in Afghanistan. Spent two years training at the Maktab al-Khidamat, an organization created by Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden. Killed by members of Sulim Yamadaev’s Special Battalion "Vostok" in Chechnya in April 2004
Abu Hafs al-UrduniParticipated in the Afghan-Soviet war and the Tajik civil war along with Khattab and al-Walid. Killed in a gunfight with Russian special forces in Khasav-Yurt, Dagestan, in November 2006.
Abu Omar al-KuwaitiAl-Qaeda agent operating first in Afghanistan and later in Chechnya. Killed in February 2005 by Russian special forces after having been surrounded in his safehouse in Ingushetia.
Abu Omar al-SaifSaudi Islamist and fighter operating first in Afghanistan (1986–1988) and later in the North Caucasus. Killed by Russian Federal forces in Dagestan in December 2005.