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The equipment that the US and allies abandoned to the Taliban. -- (link)

Posted by spamlet Aug 30 '21, 06:19

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As always, they'll have a hard time maintaining it but until then... (twitter.com)

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The weapons part baffles me. You left *weapons* -- nm - ty97 Aug 30, 06:24 16
- most of it in the hands of the Afghan military who dropped their uniforms and snuck away. -- nm - mud Aug 30, 06:43 1
  - Yes, even though we were abandoning our allies we wanted then to have a chance. -- nm - Spawn Aug 30, 07:39
- Honestly it's expensive to bring that shit back. It would be expensive and difficult to even destroy it. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 06:39 7
  - The majority was probably given to Afghan forces and wasn't "left behind". We armed friendlies and didn't disarm them when we left. -- nm - TWuG Aug 30, 06:43 1
    - Yeah, there's that, too. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 06:44
  - Bringing it home costs less than rebuying it to use against them again in a few years. - Will Hunting Aug 30, 06:42 4
    - But we *love* making new war machinery. That's how the rich get richer. -- nm - mara Aug 30, 07:02
    - They have no mechanics or pilots. It's scrap metal to them. -- nm - Reagen Aug 30, 06:43 2
      - And some was probably disabled or de-milled. Or was broken anyway. -- nm - TWuG Aug 30, 06:48
      - It's the same problem the Afghan army had. -- nm - Inigo Aug 30, 06:45
- My spidey sense says this was an unwritten part of the "deal" with the Taliban. -- nm - Inigo Aug 30, 06:36
- Maybe they include tracking devices to allow us to tracks movements, etc.? - znufrii Aug 30, 06:27 2
  - "Yeah, it's Tim Apple. I wanted to confirm your order for 163,243,204 AirTags?" -- nm - Qale Aug 30, 06:43
  - oh you adorable fool -- nm - ty97 Aug 30, 06:28
- His entire team needs replacing. The end of this operation wasn’t an unknown date. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 30, 06:26 1
  - Not the worst thought -- nm - budice Aug 30, 06:31
I don’t get how this happens. Did we just not care about *billions* of dollars of equipment? What was the plan for our own inventory? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 30, 06:22 3
- No we don’t. As 97 says that means we get to buy more and keep congresspeople happy. - spamlet Aug 30, 06:27
- This way we get to buy new ones which makes the war machine profiteers even more money! -- nm - ty97 Aug 30, 06:24 1
  - At least blow up the existing stuff! Use more shells that need replacing. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 30, 06:24

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