According to Forbes in 2021: “The U.S. provided an estimated $83 billion worth of training and equipment to Afghan security forces since 2001. This year, alone, the U.S. military aid to Afghan forces was $3 billion.” Even CNN reported that the US gave “a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021.” Of that total, “equipment worth $7.12 billion remained in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal was completed on August 30, 2021.”
$7 billion is a conservative estimate of the value of what was left behind, and it is still, of course, quite a considerable number. The money that was spent on this materiel could have been put to much better use for the benefit of taxpaying Americans. Instead, enemy forces are using weaponry that American tax dollars paid for in order to advance their mission of imposing and increasing the scope of Sharia. Now, once again courtesy of the American taxpayers, the Taliban is boasting and gloating, sharing “pictures showing off over 300 military vehicles they claim to have restored after they were left behind in the humiliating Allied withdrawal in 2021.” Afghanistan’s official Ministry of National Defence shared the photos.
It has also emerged that the Pakistani Taliban, too, are now using weapons and night vision devices that America left behind in Afghanistan. It isn’t only equipment the the Biden administration left behind, either. A few days ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that Americans were still stranded in Afghanistan, and many are being held captive by the Taliban.
Let’s hope that it’s possible for America to recover from the incalculable losses incurred by the Biden administration on every level, including the damage done on the global stage, where the U.S. now has little to no clout.
“Boasting Taliban share images of repaired military vehicles left by the West,” by Richard Ashmore, Express, March 25, 2023:
EXCLUSIVE: Photographs shared by the official Ministry of National Defence, Afghanistan, showed line upon line of military vehicles the regime said were now ready for use.
The Taliban have shared pictures showing off over “300 military vehicles” they claim to have restored after they were left behind in the humiliating Allied withdrawal in 2021. In photographs shared on the official Twitter account of the of Ministry of National Defence, Afghanistan, rows upon rows of military support and attack units can be seen.
Alongside a video and pictures posted on Saturday, the Islamic fundamentalist regime said “41 types” of military vehicle had been repaired for service with the 203 Mansoori Army Corps, part of the Afghan National Army formed in October 2021.
According to the Taliban ministry, the haul of hardware includes over 150 types of Humvee in different configurations, as well as two “tanks”, hospital and supply trucks.
It’s estimated the US alone left $7 billion of military gear – including 78 aircraft, 12,000 Humvees and thousands of air-to-ground weapons, according to a report from the Pentagon last year.
In the photographs released by the Taliban Humvee-like vehicles can be seen with firing turrets mounted on top, as well as scores of support trucks lined up outside a dusty barracks.
Overall, it says as many as 300 vehicles that had been “destroyed” by Western forces leaving the country had been repaired.
A caption read: “As many as (300) types of intermediate military vehicles that were destroyed and unusable were restored and ready for use by the technical team of Abu Dojaneh Brigade of Al-Badr Army.”
The account said after an inspection by the commander of the company, the vehicles had all been approved for use.
Despite the apparent military show of power, the Taliban and Afghanistan have faced a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis since the regime took power from Western allies in 2021……
Walter Sieruk says
That treasonous US “President” Joe Biden, has aided and new continues to support that murderous Taliban enemy conquer Afghanistan and even let the America and American people hating Taliban have new high quality US military equipment.
Likewise, Biden is a traitor to all the families and friends of those US soldiers, who had shed their blood, were killed and terribly maimed for life by the Taliban. For creepy traitorous old Joe just ‘gave away” Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Biden also has betrayed many Americans and the good Afghans who really aided the US military in the land by abandoning them all to the vicious and murderous Taliban.
Furthermore, Biden really does not care about those thirteen Americans who died or the other American who died in Afghanistan because of either his incompetence or treasonous orders.
Therefore , Joe Biden is very, obviously is ether completely incompetent and despicably treasonous. In the first or second case Biden should not have been allowed be enter the Office of the Presidency in the first place.
As that catastrophe, he created in Afghanistan and letting the Talban obtain may high quality US military equipment.
As the former US President Theodore Roosevelt that the Office of the Presidency in not only a powerful position but “a very strong man” is needed for the Oval Office. Joe Biden is not a strong man but as already stated is weak and feeble.
Roosevelt also, rightly, believed “a man holding that very important Office “should be sharply watch by the people [and] held to a strict accountability by them.”
Walter Sieruk says
One of the many reasons that Joe Biden has very low approval ratings because he is terrible in many ways. For example, Biden had ordered the US pullout from Afghanistan that awful action of his that reveals the horrendous folly of his judgement in many wrong and tragic ways. As in, for example allowing the Taliban enemy to have all the state of the art high quality US military equipment.
After all the Americans who died and the many others who had been terrible wounded and over a trillion dollars of wasted American taxpayers money invested in that awful mayhem is also awful.
Another horrible consequence of Biden’s treachery in Afghanistan are all those unvetted Afghan /Muslims now spreading across the United States. If any Americans, in any way are harmed by some those unvetted Afghan “refugees” who might be either criminals or violent jihadists then Biden will have their innocent blood on his wicked hands.
Since the end of August and because of that despicable villain Joe Biden, has betrayed and abandoned many Americans and left them to in Afghanistan to be brutally murdered by the Taliban.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban boasts, shows off 300 military vehicles left behind by America
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Suicidal insanity. Anyone could have seen that what passed for the Afghan military was not going to defend itself. If these vehicles were not removed they should have been destroyed.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One day, Gen Millie should be tried for treason for leaving all that hardware in the hands of the Taliban, IS-KP and other jihadist groups both in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Deodata says
Joe’s present to the Taliban, the first of a long line of stupid bad decisions, and he is still going. The American people need to stop him, he is betraying you.
OLD GUY says
I sure wish my government would give me a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The only thing I get from the government is the bill to pay for these and the rest of the waste they produce.
Our political leaders spend out tax dollars in the trillions, so what’s 300 vehicles, a few tanks, helicopters and Air planes left behind for the enemy to use. Just send me the bill, the checks in the mail. I hope China doesn’t want it’s money back ant time soon.