Posted on 08/19/2021 7:39:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — For months, the Biden administration was stockpiling military equipment for the Taliban before the collapse of the Afghan government. The report comes from Reuters who shares that well over a month before the Taliban’s march across the country, the Biden administration was sending military equipment to Afghanistan amid a “planned withdrawal.”
The plans of the Biden administration were not very well thought out or executed. But perhaps this was the plan all along.
According to Reuters, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters, “They’ll continue to see a steady drumbeat of that kind of support, going forward.”
The Biden administration had continued to ship new firearms, drones, communication gear, and more to the nation that they had plans to abandon in just a few short weeks. Even as the Taliban takeover continued, the shipments continued. The Taliban has bragged about the equipment they obtained, with videos of helicopters and firearms posted online.
According to one official, reported by Reuters, “the current intelligence assessment was that the Taliban are believed to 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.” That’s not just a few pieces of military equipment, that’s essentially a start-up kit for a defense force.
Reuters reports that the Biden administration is very concerned about the large amount of equipment that was left behind. According to reports, the administration has contemplated airstrikes to take out large pieces of equipment, but it has yet to put together a plan.
Officials report they are less concerned about the equipment because it is technologically advanced. They state it takes significant maintenance time and training to operate. Perhaps that was before China and Russia both have claimed their interest in Afghanistan.
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It’s obvious that this was planned. These people may be crazy but they ain’t stupid. Never underestimate your enemies.
“For months, the Biden administration was stockpiling military equipment for the Taliban...”
My guess is it was intended for the Afghan army since they were told we would continue to support them.
Obama gave $500M cash to the terror regime in Iran.
Biden gave weapons to the Taliban.
Our political leadership serves foreign powers.
Right now it's a "report"
Fixed it.
Impossible for everyone to “F” up this much.
This is deliberate.
Doing the “Withdrawal” perfectly backwards is telling.
Put the totally woke, modern Milley in the brig.
Damn right it is.
i don’t want to hear about gun control ever again!
So why was he sending all the weapons - to arm the Taliban
Taliban seizes $6,000,000 US Blackhawk helicopters
AUG 15, 2021 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
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All of this was preventable, but the U.S. military was too busy making sure all its troops were woke and reliably Leftist.
“Air Taliban: Fighters seize $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment – while taking to the skies in captured Russian choppers as advance approaches outskirts of Kabul,” by Tom Pyman, MailOnline, August 14, 2021:
Taliban fighters today seized $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment as they took to the skies in captured Russian choppers amid their advance through Afghanistan.
A series of videos being shared on social media show insurgents flying the Kremlin-made mi-17 aircraft around the city of Kandahar, with concerns continuing to grow over the militants’ ongoing grab for power.
Even more seismic, however, is the evidence that the Taliban have also seized American-made Blackhawk helicopters, made famous in the 2001 Ridley Scott blockbuster.
The Afghan government pilots who fly the operational Russian helicopters have been turned to the Taliban, while the US helicopters are likely to be grounded by a lack of spare parts from the United States.
The White House has spent billions of dollars on supplying the Afghan military with the necessary weapons and equipment to wipe out the Taliban, but following the collapse of local armed forces, their investment is now effectively being used by the insurgents themselves as they bid to control more and more major cities.
Social media in recent days has been awash with clips of fighters seizing weapons caches, but the taking of such high profile helicopters represents a significant statement of intent
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/taliban-seizes-6000000-us-blackhawk-helicopters
The Chinese PLA will occupy Bagram Airbase in 3...2...1.
Gee what a lucky break.
Biden handed Afghanistan to Pakistan. Who do you think equipped, sheltered, transported, aided the Taliban? Where did they all come from the caves? This is all orchestrated by Pakistan and those in power wanted and allowed this to happen. Who pays for the Pakistan military because they have Nukes, the United States. Biden does not know his head from his ass and the people behind the curtain cut their deal with China and Pakistan and know the Taliban have enough fire power to make it messy for anyone to come back and attempt to take them out. There are no choices left but bad or worse ones unless we send in massive forces now and retake Bagram AFB and start air power again to force the Taliban to back off, but that will never happen. It is full on clusterf^^k retreat and hostage negotiation from here going forward.
Yes, it is. Everything going on is deliberate and it’s a lot!
I smell Obama and Valerie Jarrett in this.
There’s Biden family has been paid well by China to insure this would happen.
“This is deliberate”.
It sure is. As in Obama deliberate.
Exactly.
Osama bin Laden was an honored guest in a compound next door to the Paki version of West Point.
They knew he was there.
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