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I’m genuinely wondering, is there a “career bureaucracy” to handle such change?

I imagine they sit somewhere in government building, look out the window and “oh, wells, here goes last plane out of Kabul! Time to switch flags!”

I wouldn't expect it to change hands. It's still "same hands" just people giving orders are different. Like did .gov tld in general change hands when regime changed to next president?

Yet the Trump and Biden admins managed that handover in a civilised manner. It will probably be the same with gov.af.

There are career government employees that are apolitical and carrying out orders from political appointees at the top, which are mostly replaced with each incoming administration.

From what I can tell previous administration was trying to sabotage civilized transfer in every possible way… and the fallout is on display, including AF withdrawal.

However, is/was there such setup in AF government? For all I know, everyone just packed and went home/abroad…