US President Joe Biden has said the Taliban’s attempts to be seek legitimacy from other countries will be determined by their actions.

“I don’t trust anybody, including you, I love you but there is not a lot of people I trust,” he said in response to a reporter’s question on whether he believed the Taliban or not.

“They have told other countries, as well as us, they don’t want us to move our diplomatic presence completely. All of this is all just talk now,” Biden said during an address to the nation from the White House on Sunday.

He said the Taliban would have to make the fundamental decision of whether it wants to unite and provide for the people of Afghanistan which no one group has ever done for hundreds of years. “And if it does, it’s going to need everything from additional help in terms of economic assistance, trade and whole wages,” he said.

The US president said the Taliban had not taken any action against US forces during and after their takeover of Afghanistan this month. “So far, they have by and large followed through what they said in terms of allowing Americans to pass through. We’ll see whether or not what they say turns out to be true,” he said.

Biden also defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan as logical and rational, saying he didn’t want to send any more Americans to fight in Afghanistan.

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“At the end of the day if we didn’t leave Afghanistan now when do we leave? another 10 years? another 5 years? I’m not about to send your son or your daughter to fight in Afghanistan.”

The Taliban completed their effective takeover of Afghanistan with the capture of capital city Kabul on August 15 after routing Afghan security forces across the country in a week-long offensive.