Billions of dollars in U.S. weapons are now in possession of the Taliban following the quick collapse of the Afghan government.
Weapons seized by the Taliban include Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft.
Photos show Taliban fighters clutching U.S.-made M4 carbines and M16 rifles instead of their infamous AK-47s, The Hill reports. Taliban fighters have also been spotted with U.S. Humvees and mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles.
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Over the last 20 years, the U.S has spent an estimated $83 billion training and equipping Afghan security forces.
While it remains unclear exactly how many weapons are now in possession of the Taliban, the Biden administration acknowledged it’s a “fair amount.”
‘Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now’ one anonymous U.S. official told Reuters.
Military hardware left by the fleeing Afghan army has been captured by the Taliban, as they seized control of the country https://t.co/Ez5Ytfu7N7 1/6
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 19, 2021
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday. “And obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
Another official said the current intelligence assessment was that the Taliban control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, and up to 40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters, and ScanEagle military drones 3/6 pic.twitter.com/K7LCdhO8D5
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 19, 2021
“Those Black Hawks were not given to the Taliban. They were given to the Afghan National Security Forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request of [Afghan] President [Ashraf] Ghani, who came to the Oval Office and asked for additional air capability, among other things,” Sullivan said.
“So the president had a choice. He could not give it to them with the risk that it would fall into the Taliban’s hands eventually, or he could give it to them with the hope that they could deploy it in service of defending their country,” Sullivan continued. “Both of those options had risks. He had to choose. And he made a choice.”
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OH, how lucky we are to have the corrupt U.S. puppet president to leave these FREE weapons for us the Taliban.
Weapons seized by the Taliban include Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft. Taliban control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, and up to 40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters, and ScanEagle military drones 3/6. 🙁 🙁 🙁
And the traitorous Nasty Nancy Pelosi congratulated Puppet president Biden for his treason.
IF literally ARMING OUR Enemy, is no longer considered worthy of high treason, THEN NOTHING IS!
I hope Biden left them a list of targets not to hit like he did with Putin.
Impeach Biden
General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs or is it Chairman of Incompetency? Milley, whose main focus is “white rage and white supremacy”. In other words, Milley is attacking Conservative Americans. Elitist incompetency and stupidity, defines Milley and the Biden Administration!
So true. WHEN THE idiots in charge, do not even SEE the threat as a threat, HOW CAN THEY PLAN for it!
Now let’s not be too hard on Milley. He’ll down in history with the best of them like George McClellen, Benedict Arnold, George Custer. Losers always have company.
THose folks, are certainly not ‘company’, i would like to be associated with!
Rats! Those weapons were promised by Obama and Biden to the Mexican drug cartels!
‘Aggressive’ Rats On Rise In U.S. Big Cities. Both 4 legged and 2 legged.
I think Dan Bonjeno said it very well, “If your goal was to destroy America, what more would you do than what Biden was already done?”
Also, the great American philosopher, Forrest Gump, said, “Stupid is as stupid does…that’s what my momma always says.”
Joe Biden is just a front used by the puppetmasters who present him as the village idiot while they deliberately undermine (attempt to collapse) America.
If that’s their goal, they are SUCCEEDING VERY WELL at it.
Somebody remind the administration they have many ARMED DRONES and should be going over and destroying those military vehicles along with any Taliban inside them !!!!
Hell, send a few dozen B-52’s over, and LEVEL THE AIRSTRIPS where these vehicles and planes are..
OR IF WE can safely do so, SEND IN SPEC FORCES, and SEIZE them!
The U.S. Air Force was on the way to destroy them , BUT were told to abort the mission. Sure would like to know who and why and what for1
I’d certainly like to know too..
With military equipment worth billions left behind, I bet the taliban is now going to add to their booty by “buying” art paintings done for a few million dollars. Wonder who the artist/painter is and where that money will end up at?
If it was logistically impossible to get the weapons out, they should have been destroyed in place.
Apparently all those ‘after-action reports’ and ‘lessons learned’ memos, never made the rounds.
The evidentiary TRUTH, as proven, is that biden left behind our US military ordinance AFTER the Taliban took control of the Embassy and Kabul and BEFORE the Afghans were airlifted and American citizens were left behind! No way US intelligence believed from the beginning that the 75,000 Afghan army could overtake the 300,000 Taliban. There’s so much more to this story yet to be exposed.
AND since most of these taliban fighters, were HIDING IN PLANE SIGHT IN PAKISTAN, how the hell, can ANYONE claim Pakistan is our Ally, is beyond me.
There’s so much more to this story yet to be exposed. The evidentiary TRUTH, as proven, is that biden left behind our US military ordinance AFTER the Taliban took control of the Embassy and Kabul and BEFORE the Afghans were airlifted and American citizens were left behind! No way US intelligence believed from the beginning that the 75,000 Afghan army could overtake the 300,000 Taliban.
What makes me chuckle, is i saw PLENTY OF PICS of our troops actually leaving, and NOT A ONE CARRIED A SINGLE gun with them..
WHY!?!?!?!?
“They think if we can just get radical Muslim nations to embrace democracy they will suddenly become reasonable & kindhearted. That didn’t work in Iraq, is not working in Gaza & is a disaster in Afghanistan
Where is congress ? They are the ones ultimately to blame for this as they have shirked their responsibility by allowing
presidents to commit troops without a declaration of war.. I’ve no love lost of the moron joe biden he has always been just
that , a moron.. The fact is every branch of our government is now corrupt and are evidently in total agreement to destroy
every vestige of the USA. They have actually created a fascist nation in that they have private corporations doing their
bidding. Whether censorship, banning people from social networks, overtaking the medical profession, constant propaganda
over their toxic covid vaccine which was developed before they purposely released their man made virus of the populations.
I don’t know what Trump knew but do know he had only two people in his cabinet who believed in America as he did.
They were Pompeo and Ben Carson. They rest of them were typical Wash. dc swamp rats.
Vacationing, like always.. AND FOLKS WONDER WHY i would just love to eliminate ALL OF THOSE WASTES OF oxygen!
The thought that those bloodthirsty, barbaric savages are in control of all that US equipment does MORE than infuriate me ! It also makes me realize that we are in a lot more DANGER in the US now, because of Bidens/Blinkin’s incompetence, and dereliction of duty. In My opinion, this was a punishable CRIME !
Ahhhh, The Obama 2.0 Administration had to finish what that started with the Mexican Drug Cartels except this one is with Taliban, let me guess the name of this sequel is called “Fastest and Furious Part II”, the administration that keeps on giving!! They are the “Cancer” of Society!!
Oh. My GOD!
ALL i know, is AFTER ALL of this, NO DEMOCRAT Ever again, should demand WE AMERICANS Have to give up OUR GUNS “under common sense laws”…
Joes handlers made a deal to deliver these weapons to the Taliban and this is how they did it without any opposition. No one is this stupid it was all a preplanned op. And who pulls joes strings?
The rabid mudslime in charge, OBOZO.. God hate his name.
Do you know what it said in the manuals of just about every piece of military equipment issued? Right after the front page, and the index, was what to do if this equipment was about to fall into enemy hands. The instructions are graphic and to the point, use gasoline, small arms fire, grenades, TNT shoot up, blow up, burn up and destroy everything. So, as one person suggested, perhaps this could be done retroactively, send the B52’s back and destroy all that gear just like the manual instructs.
No, you got it wrong. The Afgan security forces just gave up ,didn’t fight. They Surrendered and gave their weapons to the Taliban. We have them the Tools necessary to Protect their own people and they just Surrendered. Now they want to come here. Scary