Posted on 08/27/2021 8:39:18 PM PDT by Daffynition
A government watchdog group says the U.S. military is leaving behind 75,000 vehicles, 600,000 weapons and 208 aircraft in Afghanistan as forces evacuate the country after a 20-year war.
We’ve made the Taliban into a major U.S. arms dealer for the next decade,” said Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books. “They now control 75,000 military vehicles. This is about 50,000 tactical vehicles, 20,000 Humvees they control about 1,000 mine-resistant vehicles, and even about 150 armored personnel carriers.”
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“We built them a pretty amazing war chest and now all of it is in the hands of the Taliban,” said Andrzejewski. “We know that last month, as late as July, seven new helicopters were being delivered in the capital city of Kabul.”
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“We found a Federal Audit that detailed up to $200 million worth of drones that had disappeared,” Andrzejewski said. “We don’t know where 600,000 weapons are within the country.”
The left-behind equipment and weapons are worth billions.
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The Hill reported that “between 2003 and 2016, the United States transferred 75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons, 162,643 pieces of communications equipment, 208 aircraft, and 16,191 pieces of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment to Afghan forces, according to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report. From 2017 to 2019, the United States also gave Afghan forces 7,035 machine guns, 4,702 Humvees, 20,040 hand grenades, 2,520 bombs and 1,394 grenade launchers, among other equipment, according to a report last year from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the equipment is lost to the Taliban, “and obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
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Our precious human treasure and taxer-payer dollars gone in a puff of smoke.
Thanka biden.
Thanks, globalists.
This is not incompetence. Obama did the same thing for ISIS. They became the best equipped army in the Middle East and immediately took control of 2/3 of Iraq. Sound familiar?
Best armed terrorists on the planet.
Yes.
And can you imagine when they have a *yard sale*? ...putting the hardware into Isis hands.
Some related links. Someones gotta answer for this. These links and the implications are horrifying.
https://youtu.be/uc8eoeURBXc?t=172
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3989523/posts
It is a tragedy. I really feel sorry for the families of the dead who died, apparently unnecessarily, in the war, and for the wounded and their families came home with their lives changed irrevocably.
Satan has a special place reserved for Joseph Biden.
This is the type of thing I was referring to
Biden learned from his former boss how to arm insurgeants. Be it Iran, Alqueda, Isis, Mexican cartels, Chicago Street gangs or the tollybon.
The Taliban may have access to the biometric data of civilians who helped the U.S. military. Sweet. Biden’s generals should all be fired.
What more is it going to take before we throw out biden.
Congresscritters are spineless.
Q: Why’d we leave it all there?
A: Too hard to move all that large equipment.
Airplanes? Really???????
Our enemies are licking their chomps.
They see a leader on his knees with no confidence or sense of power.
True patriots find this sickeningly disgusting but I fear those pulling the strings behind Biden intend the US to be knocked off the world stage and what better loser to do that than a napping Joe Biden.
Armored personnel carriers such as the M113A2 cost$170,000 each and recent purchases of the M577A2 post carrier cost $333,333 each.
Mine resistant vehicles ranges from $412,000 to $767,000. The total cost could range between $382 million to $711 million.
Recovery vehicles such as the ‘truck, wrecker’ cost between for the base model $168,960 and $880,674 for super strength versions.
Medium range tactical vehicles include 5-ton cargo and general transport trucks were priced at $67,139. However, the family of MTV heavy vehicles had prices ranging from $235,500 to $724,820 each. Cargo trucks to transport airplanes cost $800,865.
Humvees – ambulance type (range from $37,943 to $142,918 with most at $96,466); cargo type, priced at $104,682.
Utility Humvees were typically priced at $91,429. However, the 12,000 lb. troop transport version cost up to $329,000.
Light tactical vehicles: Fast attack combat vehicles ($69,400); and passenger motor vehicles ($65,500). All terrain 4-wheel vehicles go up to $42,273 in the military databases.
But...but we spent billions on the Respect Women Campaign: More than $800 million (and maybe billions since 2001) to encourage Taliban and other Islamist groups to respect women, including $27 million from USAID to “Promote: Women’s Rights Groups and Coalitions” and $6.7 million to prevent “Gender Based Violence.” (It is unlikely that Taliban’s treatment and abuse of women in the coming weeks will be respectful or empowering.)
From a Biblical reflection I would have to assume many of these weapons will be used against Israel at the battle of Armageddon. Which means, Joe Biden helped fund the coming Biblical battle against Israel. He will be held accountable.
Genesis 12:3
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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