Ghani says: We will not be able to support our army for six months without US support and capabilities
Well the incidents and events of post 2012 were going to sink in. The Taliban resurgence and rise of ISIS has created an air of demoralization which coupled with the depressing state Afghanistan finds itself in was always going to prompt such a statement.
Leaders are reflection of society and if the people have no hope then leaders too would be hopeless.
Look at the current state. Afghanistan continuously has seen civilian and military casualties with constant desertions and selling of military equipment to insurgents. The Taliban are spreading and spreading.
Their presence in the outskirts of many districts has risen and are difficult to detach and recently in 2017 Kabul has seen daily bombings with constant attacks on sensitive areas.
On top of it all the limits of govt have come to action with noor refusing an executive order and the " general" of Kandahar backing him and on top of it all the rifts in the NUG govt are rising.
Plus the parliament is constantly berating the govt as to why fencing of Durand border is being allowed and ghani is facing foreign and internal pressure on this issue.
At this point even ghani knows that US is the only glue that is holding together Afghanistan govt and that glue is getting tired of this long conflict and the trillion dollars wasted.
I think this realism is creeping out and as days go by ghani is becoming more and more miserable and hopeless. His body language tells it.
The Afghan society is so divided on every level that its almost impossible to keep together without a strong federal power.
Although the Taliban were the only ones after king zahir shah to somehow unite majority of Afghanistan yet considering the divisions in Afghanistan I don't think the Taliban would have lasted long without massive internal divisions and civil war.
At this point a very powerful and strong center is required to control the warlords and the ethnic frictions and that is just looking impossible.