Posted on 09/01/2021 8:06:09 AM PDT by USA Conservative
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that it was not the Biden administration’s intention to arm the Taliban with billions of dollars in military equipment originally given to the Afghan government but claimed that the United States is taking steps to “reduce the amount of equipment” in the Taliban’s possession before completing the troop withdrawal at the end of the month.
Psaki, fielding questions at Monday’s White House press briefing, declined to “get into details” of how specifically U.S. forces are carrying out the equipment destruction or recovery but assured reporters “that is part of their effort.”
Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana lawmaker who chairs the Republican Study Committee and served in Afghanistan, estimated the value of what was left behind at $85 billion.
Here’s the aresenal that we provided to tthe Talibans:
It seems that Psaki as the rest of her administration provided us with some fake news as not a single piece of military equipment was destroyed and our forces left yesterday!
This morning a video surfaced of the Taliban military parade where you can’t tell the difference if it’s America’s military parade or Taliban’s!
Video below:
But like that humiliation is not enough the Taliban use this equipment to improve their crippled economy!
A social media post originating in Iran posted several images of Humvees loaded on transport trucks stopped on the side of an Iranian highway. An Iranian Telegram channel that covers military stories has released these “exclusive” images that purportedly show humvees and other military vehicles spotted on the Semnan-Garmsar road in Iran. Images below:
The source which is an Iranian journalist reporting for BBC claims that he is sure that those are Iranian roads:
The equipment is likely s tiny portion of the massive military cache the Biden administration abandoned in Afghanistan. It would make sense for the Taliban to sell off anything they don’t intend to use in order to fund their government without having to deal with any U.S. demands.
Iran is an enemy of the United States and a major backer of terrorism. Joe Biden may be guilty of providing material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization (18 U.S. Code 2339B).
Obama gave the mullahs billions in cash on a pallet, his pupil just gave them warfighting equipment.
This was the plan. Obama dropped the pallet of cash, they couldn’t do that again, so they did this.
that was always Bidens intentions (or at least his puppeteer)
BURN IN HELL, TALIBIDEN!
Psaki —>
“But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood”
Just keeps getting worse..
Another impeachable offense..................
Possessing these vehicles would help Iran develop more lethal IEDs (if they need the help)....
That’s okay. The Saudis have a military deal with the Russians now.
Everything is fine...
Just what Valerie Jarrett wanted.
But I thought that Obama took out the Iranians by dropping huge pallets of cash on them.
Iran’s pallet of cash going to ISIS in exchange for military gear. That gear will end up in all the wrong hands around the world.
And to think that it wasn’t that long ago that our military was so underfunded that they were forced to cannibalize vehicles and aircraft in order to stay operational. What a waste.
The “Tollybon” just became the world’s largest arms dealer courtesy of Joe Biden.
I have not been in the military, but I have worked with other agencies.
Government as a whole does NOT think like human beings, it barely thinks at all. It has intelligence and instincts like a worm or some multi-cell organism. It merely reacts to stimulii
If the equipment was already budgeted, bought, paid for and dispersed to its intended destination, there is ZERO plan to bring it back. In the bureaucracy’s planning process, its gone, used, written-off. The military-industrial complex and their deep-state partners particularly like this, as no one looks backwards and they just focus on getting more for the next budget cycle.
Have to wonder if Team Dementia thinks they have done a good job in Afghanistan. And if they have convinced themselves that Americans shouldn’t expect their resignations ASAP.
At no time ever under the leadership of President Trump did I ever doubt that our country was safe and growing safer. Eight months into the bidet administration.... dramatically different and growing worse.
Iran bought the vehicles with what? They’re short of foreign currency. They’re having problems selling their oil. I would think that they have more important uses for their money they have than worn out Humvees and MRAPs.
This was the plan all along.
Equip our enemies.
I asked that question after Desert Storm. I was told that once equipment was “in theater” ( of the absurd ) it is never returned. Just too expensive to pack and ship and most of it was “worn out” was the standard line. The exceptions were aircraft and M-1 tanks which were either stock piled in Kuwait or actually shipped back to Europe theater of ops or the USA. They were the ones painted tan and not green.
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