Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along

But wasn't Pakistan also thoroughly a US puppet at this point?

To be technical, did the US actually fund the Taliban when it got started? The Pakistani intelligence service did, and the Taliban were only able to take power because of the US-backed Mujahideen alliance rapidly descended into civil war when the Soviets pulled out and the Afghan government fell, but idk.

A reminder that the Taliban only exists because the US funded the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war