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'No compromises' Terrifying footage shows Taliban with brand new US weapons and vehicles
https://www.express.co.uk ^ | Jul 6, 2021 | By TOM HUSSEY

Posted on 07/06/2021 12:43:15 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

TALIBAN insurgents have captured a brand new cargo of thousands of US weapons and vehicles as Afghanistan spirals out of control.

Following the takeover of a former Afghan National Army base, the Taliban have come into the hands of thousands of unused weapons and vehicles intended for US and Afghan troops. From one base in Wardak province in the north of the country, Sky News showed how the insurgents have snatched an astonishing 900 brand new guns, 30 hummvies, 20 armoured pick-up trucks, thousands of rounds of ammunition and boxes upon boxes of brand new missiles and mortars.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afganistan; banglist; bidensfault; obamasfault; taliban
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To: srmanuel

I did a quick search to find out what might be in that God forsaken corner of the world. I figured nothing but it seems the Afghanis are sitting on some pretty valuable resources such as copper, iron, sulfur, bauxite, lithium, and rare-earth elements.
All found and proven by the USGS since 2005.
https://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals


21 posted on 07/06/2021 2:54:11 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Shut up and sing, shut up and dribble, shut up and play, shut up and act...just SHUT UP)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The US doesn’t destroy this equipment because it is supposed to be used by the Afghan army. But they just run and hide and leave it all to be taken.


22 posted on 07/06/2021 3:07:33 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: oldvirginian

Correct, but the problem has always been how do you get those minerals out of Afghanistan and put them to use.

I don’t think you can rely on native Afghanis to work the mines for Chinese companies, China will move in hundreds if not thousands of people...

The inevitable clash of cultures will happen, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups will eventually look at the Chinese as an occupying force, just Russia and the USA and start to fight back.

China will be ruthless, but so were the Russians, the IEDs will start going off, the suicide bombers will start setting themselves off, ambushes will start, etc....

I say let China have Afghanistan, let them get bogged down in a no win situation that will suck up a lot of their resources....

And just like when we funded the Mujahedeen in the 80s against Russia, we will fund the Taliban, we have already given them millions and millions of dollars of military hardware.....that’s just a down payment IMO...


23 posted on 07/06/2021 3:16:08 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: Veggie Todd

Wanting to disarm Americans while arming terrorists - typical Democrat/socialist thinking. Biden is the gift that keeps giving.


24 posted on 07/06/2021 3:19:08 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: ransomnote

I’m not too worried as Humvees and other equipment require high maintenance and specialized replacement parts.

Now if they can procure the parts and mechanics through some provided source, that’s another matter.


25 posted on 07/06/2021 3:27:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Compounding surrender with retreat, and arming an anarchistic tribal bandit faction. What a topsy-turvy world this has become in a mere six months.

The Mexican drug cartels have an Asian counterpart. Organized on much the same lines.


26 posted on 07/06/2021 3:29:37 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: srmanuel

The key to Afghanistan has always been Pakistan. The northern tribal region has been where the Taliban left their families, and where they went to rest.

The Paks were always playing a double game, and stabbing us in the back. The Chinese will speak more bluntly to the Pak leadership.


27 posted on 07/06/2021 3:33:08 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Pez149

Donald Rumsfeld and Afghanistan both gone in the same week. ‘Nuff said.


28 posted on 07/06/2021 3:37:42 AM PDT by laconic
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To: SauronOfMordor

I’m sure they will and as soon as the Pakistanis crack down on that region then the Pakistani Government will be retaliated against....

There is a reason why no one for centuries has been able to tame that area, China won’t be able to do it, unless they are willing to kill millions which they might be, but I say let them try....


29 posted on 07/06/2021 3:38:51 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This from the same government itching to take guns AWAY from law-abiding US citizens.


30 posted on 07/06/2021 3:51:50 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: RomanSoldier19

How do you capture something left behind?


31 posted on 07/06/2021 3:53:22 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Rennes Templar

True; the Ayatollah ended up with modern US jets that couldn’t fly because they had no parts or people to maintain them. Just the same, it is disgraceful; those that say we just go to war for business are vindicated when we’re even manufacturing materiel for the enemy...


32 posted on 07/06/2021 3:56:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“Terrifying footage”

Lol! Okay.


33 posted on 07/06/2021 4:13:07 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Pentagon couldn’t even focus on getting the withdrawal right. They were too busy turning our military into a woke disaster rainbow.


34 posted on 07/06/2021 4:16:00 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: srmanuel

You outlined a pretty accurate scenario. If the Afghanis were going to raise themselves up they would have done it by now. I think Afghanistan is the bottom rung of the Arabic ladder. The lowest and least motivated of all.
Decades of war haven’t helped but we gave them years of semi-peaceful existence and they’re throwing it away.

It would be nice to see China so bogged down in Afghanistan that they have to put their invasion of Taiwan on hold indefinitely. :&)

Let the muzzies bleed the Chinese dry.
Serves both groups right.


35 posted on 07/06/2021 4:19:17 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Shut up and sing, shut up and dribble, shut up and play, shut up and act...just SHUT UP)
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To: Ymani Cricket

Posting the picture is nice, but you need to identify those in the picture.


36 posted on 07/06/2021 4:22:04 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This is all done deliberately to send Afghanistan into chaos. It’ll be their “Arab Spring,” guaranteed to annihilate the little sovereignty they had left forever.


37 posted on 07/06/2021 4:25:34 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: Veggie Todd

So this was done purposefully.


38 posted on 07/06/2021 4:26:18 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: srmanuel

China, unlike the US, will exterminate the Taliban like ants.


39 posted on 07/06/2021 4:30:06 AM PDT by databoss
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To: oldvirginian

Inside of China we’ve already seen how they handle their Muslim problem, round’em up into slave labor camps.

That probably won’t work out for them in Afghanistan


40 posted on 07/06/2021 4:32:42 AM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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