Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib had this tweet today, in which she drew a direct line between the mujahideen that the US backed against the Soviets and the Taliban now taking over Afganistan. As counterpoint, someone on Twitter said that the Taliban were founded "five years after the Soviets left Afghanistan" and linked to this article, in response to what they saw as an exaggeration of how the US' backing for the mujahideen empowered and armed the Taliban.

Is one or the other side closer to reality here? What happened within the anti-PDPA camp during the gap between the Soviet withdrawal and the Taliban coming to power? Which of the active mujahideen groups during the Soviet period actually became Taliban?