U.S Weapons Smuggled Out of Afghanistan

A new report outlined $7 billion dollars worth of US Military equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan but where is it going? Apparently it's flowing into India and Pakistan.
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[@Taskandpurpose]

Thanks for watching guys, let me know what you think of the all the equipment left in Afghanistan spilling over to India and Pakistan. Did I miss an important aspect? Do you agree with my thoughts? unironically hooah photos: instagram.com/cappyarmy/ uniornically hooah tweets twitter.com/Cappyarmy

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[@yourfriend4104]

Can you do the new replacement for the Common Tatctical Truck?

[@owais146]

SIR KASHMIRIS ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS NOT TERRORISTS AND THERE FREEDOM FIGHTING MOVEMENT WAS STARTED IN 1930! THANKS

[@icecoldcrickets1452]

A lot of those NVGs were given directly to the ANA. I can honestly say that I personally trained Taliban on the use of 7 Deltas; As the primary trainer for the first NVG equipped Kandak (Battalion, 1-9 Kandak IIRC?) in the ANA, I was the NCO showing them how they worked and teaching very basic tactics. Their joes didn't get 'em, just the senior NCO's and all the Officers. About a quarter of them immediately defected to the Taliban when the unit left for Lashkar Gah, with their fancy new equipment and training in hand. Fewer than expected, actually. No lasers though, just NODS. *edit: to clarify, I was highlighting that half the stuff we gave to the ANA was already going to the Taliban while we were still there, and the absurdity of training the guys during the day who were going to shoot at you that night.

[@michaelwilliams9574]

Congrats?

[@icecoldcrickets1452]

@@michaelwilliams9574 Hell no, just highlighting how fucked the whole thing was from day one. Half the equipment we gave to the ANA was already going to the Taliban because half the ANA were IN the Taliban.

[@judeodomhnaill9711]

@@icecoldcrickets1452 sucks man. Washington is the swamp.

[@michaelwilliams9574]

@@icecoldcrickets1452 that's because we didn't learn from Vietnam

[@serronserron1320]

When I was volunteering with the Red Cross and other humanitarian groups the impression that I got was most of the Afghan people didn't desire Western-isms and the local government's officials were completely corrupt.

[@maxs.5112]

"They honestly look better equipped than the Russian Army now" That is such a hard true stab at Russia, and it made me laugh.

[@soyounglee5985]

good job arming them .laugh at your failure

[@mill2712]

Even when dissing the US, Russia will always take heat. No matter what. Probably China too.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

When their new rifles are much more budget version than the "military grade" M4's and spend half the money saved in upgrading their old rifles FOR THE THIRD TIME, you know it's bad...

[@y0h0p38]

NYET RIFLE IS FINE

[@davidty2006]

Yeah... They actually got NVD's...

[@3x0ticContent]

What's also crazy is that this doesn't include the countless European made weapons such as AK variants, PKMs, rpg and etc that were given to the national police and special police forces. As well as the huge surplus of Russian made weapons during the soviet war. Taliban have practically a monopoly on all the weapons.

[@tommygun5038]

It sounds like a lot. But US civilians have 100× that amount.

[@pandahsykes602]

@@tommygun5038 yes and ? We aren’t terrorists, and we don’t intend on using these guns against USA or against villagers in Iraq … these terrorists (regardless of if you see them as such) will be using them for killing , we Americans use them at the range and on Instagram . Get real kiddo .

[@tommygun5038]

@@pandahsykes602 ....That's not the point i was making. Anything that requires maintenance in that part of the world will be useless in a decade. Getting (real) would require a total war on their 10th century feudal culture.

[@thelordofnuggets629]

@@tommygun5038 US civs wont do shit with it they never would

[@andrewgates8158]

@@thelordofnuggets629 I'm your huckleberry.

[@connorluke131]

As an Indian citizen it's a big threat for us but we will handle it.

[@nokachi3339]

I'm sorry our leader fucked you over

[@BigBrotherTheWatcher1984]

​@Lustig Why should we handle San Francisco?

[@jeffroberts8246]

I'm a veteran United States Army from 1990 to 1994. The content of this video turns my stomach. Can't believe that we would leave all that equipment behind. The 16,000 night vision goggles blows my mind more than anything. Night vision goggles were treated as a sensitive item and you had to account they're aware abouts at all times along with your weapon. Now all of that gear can be reverse engineered and mass produced. We just gifted our enemies years and years of research to build these items for free

[@joshuablair252]

Don’t worry there is plenty of people in denial and are saying that they had just as much night vision before as they do now and would have not made a difference. They are arguing that all of the gear we left them did not make a significant difference because they already had the equipment in the first place.

[@jeffroberts8246]

@@joshuablair252 I have heard some of those same arguements. It is utterly ridiculous. The Pakistanis are a nuclear power because of stolen technology that filtered to them. It's just so sickening that the policies put in place by this administration is not policies. It's just a reversal of all things that the previous administration and administrations prior. It's disgusted how it is just white washed in the news. I think of all the state of the art equipment that is being used to make the damn Taliban a legitimate threat if not globally then at least regionally. It set us back at least 20 years. I believe however that future generations will be feeling the affects of this. Look at what I ran has done with the plane load of cash they received from us.

[@RealPlatoishere]

And the mess created for Indians.......I think bidens stupidity destabilized a whole region

[@phizc]

Night vision goggles aren't hard to get these days. Things have changed since the 90s. You can buy Gen III night vision goggles such as the PVS-15 as a civilian. There are export restrictions, but that's never going to prevent them from ending up in China.

[@jeffroberts8246]

@@phizc then why isn't other countries owning the night

[@johnandstephanie377]

I'm just sick at how this was conducted. And the fact that we stayed there so many years. For what?

[@JollyOldCanuck]

@@MorriRay Afghanistan has moved from one war to the next since the Soviet invasion during the 70s, peoples will to fight has long since been broken.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

It’s why I was against going there in the first place (which I took a lot of shit for at the time, by conservatives). Unless we were willing to establish a permanent presence, there was no point in doing it. No one is gonna help you out when they know you’ll be leaving in 5-10 years & the taliban will bash your door down & kill your the second the US pulls out. Bush was a fool to send troops to two separate middle eastern countries at the same time.

[@Historyfan476AD]

@@MorriRay Problem was the USA tried to build a western democracy like country in a region of the world where tribal ruling and high religious practice and control of daily life was still a common factor. It was a poor move to try and make Afghanistan like a western country, would have been better just empowering one of the tribes and using the to dominate the nation.

[@JollyOldCanuck]

@@Historyfan476AD Afghanistan should have been partitioned into 5 or 6 different countries. As a Canadian of Afghan descent I can tell you outright that every ethnic group in that country hates each other with a passion, any concept of a united Afghanistan died with the monarchy during the mid-twentieth century.

[@communism_is_wrong7167]

We should’ve left equipment and bases over there, but we should have very slowly moved out of the region and been replaced by UN soldiers who are supposed to police this kind of shit

[@davidmoorea1961]

An excellent & well researched video!! KUDOS on your efforts, Brother🇺🇸

[@user-ms4ef8xz9t]

I am glad you made this video. I hope people realize why this happened. The defense industry is more than happy to replace everything with new equipment. With these corporation now running Washington, any excuse to buy new equipment is welcome. What happens to the old stuff doesn't really matter. Its all about the money. I fear the entire Afghan war was an exercise in defense spending. I'm not so sure that Vietnam wasn't as well. This is no slur against the men and women that served in these conflicts. I'm a Vet, and like then I did what I was told and trained to do. They should be proud of their service. The problem is the people calling the shots. I recently did a study on the history of Afghanistan. Anyone who takes the time to learn it, and I'm sure our government did, would quickly realize that there was zero chance we would make any real difference there. Strangely I found the history of Vietnam much the same. These are two places that one empire after another have tried to take and they ALL failed. So that begs the question why did we poured billions of dollars ( and American lives ) into these hopeless wars. Who was to benefit from these lost causes? The answer is the same for both wars. My answer? Get the money out of politics. It makes me sick to think that so many good Americans have died so that someone could make a buck. America, get the money out of it and take back control of your country. Let's fight for right and wrong, not a profit margin.

[@gang3576]

Your a rare one and I'm not even American. Most these idoits don't see it, still calling them our “enemies” like bots. Some rich old corrupt politicians decided these guys are the enemy so that shouldn't mean u have to be blind follower.

[@Royed]

The decision to continue to arm and train Afghan soldiers was doomed from the start. Anyone who was deployed and had to train those folks know EXACTLY how untrainable they are. Literally NO discipline in the entire military structure in Afghan. People thought of it all as a joke either because they joined the military as an easy ticket out of their village or they are legit mentally ill. The Afghan military didn't have any qualms against taking people who are VERY CLEARLY UNFIT for the military. You'd have a few people who actually cared and took it all seriously but those people usually ended up dying due to the carelessness of their idiot battle buddies.

[@erpherp4047]

cant really expect centuries to be cleared up in a few decades besides our oil barons and weapons firms got what they wanted.

[@peter5149]

We went guns blazing into a place we didn’t understand. Al-Quaeda had to pay for 9/11, but there were other ways to do that than what we did.

[@nicholasbrown5013]

not trying to be rude but is mental illness a big issue there?

[@advaitparab4852]

@@peter5149 well tbh it wasnt the method that was wrong. It was the duration. America invaded afghanistan freed it of taliban control and then proceeded to do the same mistake the soviets did. To undermine the local tribe control which forced them to become taliban. If america wouldve just sticked to the cities and strengthened the afghan army and left after Osama everything wouldve been fine

[@doggo_woo]

@@nicholasbrown5013 well, it isn't mainly mental illness, more just a fact that these are people who live in rural areas. As such, they don't get good education in these areas, and thus they suffer in jobs such as the military, which requires discipline.

[@ivanstepanovic1327]

The first country that immediately recognized the Taliban as legal government was - China. The second country that did the same was China's old ally - Pakistan. At the same time, both China and Pakistan have border disputes with India, so it makes sense that this is now happening, with India being targeted... Oh, BTW it's not only India that China has border disputes with... They have border disputes (and clashes) with the total of 17 (SEVENTEEN!!!) countries... A good neighbor, right?

[@MY-zj8pb]

Half of those so called disputes are made up by Indian media.

[@jamesricker3997]

China has interest in the mineral wealth of Afghanistan Given China's business practices and the culture of Afghanistan there is going to be trouble

[@ianhines2302]

No one has legally recognized the Taliban government

[@hi4806]

China only has land disputes with India and Bhutan, and Bhutan is controlled by India.I emphasize the land dispute land, not the sea.

[@callmebigpapa]

Great nuanced view/presentation of a complex situation.

[@soulpowdr8532]

Dude! Your videos are great!

[@mattcy6591]

I know leaving some stuff behind couldn't be helped when trying to withdraw and take as few human losses as possible. But the sheer amount left behind is staggering.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

The losses should have been ZERO. Instead we lost 13.

[@NotJustAnotherAverageJoe]

Well, it was a 20 year conflict.

[@tvhead7074]

Probably left on purpose

[@tc5328]

Chris did explain the reasoning as to why stuff was left and it makes sense. We had to leave equipment for the Afghan army, not knowing that they would just give up instantly.

[@serronserron1320]

@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Over the next year after Japan surrendered over 1,100 US soldiers died, the military kept that Under Wraps To make sure that any more violence between US troops and the Japanese population didn't escalate. World War II was over even if the fighting had not completely stopped.

[@donbalduf572]

Same thing happened after Vietnam. Every two-bit terrorist or revolutionary got a slightly used M-16 and other goodies. Small bright side: With the rough handling such people give to equipment and without ready spare parts and maintenance the gear craps out in fairly short order, although it can cause a lot of trouble before that happens.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

There is a big difference between leaving rifles and leaving NVG and drones.

[@donbalduf572]

@@huwhitecavebeast1972 yeah, true. It’s not a good thing no matter how you look at it

[@OneEyedRascal]

I don’t many m-16s in nam were slightly used lol. But I see what your saying

[@jefferyboring4410]

Guns are amazingly resilient it’s amazing how long guns can last. A few cheap springs and a home made extractor can keep em shooting for many decades. I’ve got a Romanian ak probability had 60k rds through it and it’s worn silver but shoots fine and reliable. If u look at M16s that were used over seas u see the same thing up and running on original barrels for almost 50 yrs now.

[@animegaming4057]

What a shitty comment. Last time I checked, the “terrorist” as you say were only defending their country. As with every war since Vietnam has been for other countries. Call them terrorists all you want, they are fighters for their homes. And if you so much as think of using 9/11 as the excuse, firstly, don’t insult the memories of those we lost, secondly, it was Saudi Arabia who which we should have invaded and bombed to kingdom come. What was the number again? Something like 17 of 19 of the high jackers came from Saudi? And we invaded Iraq? Alfganistan? Pakistan? Yemen? And Saudi is our top ally? You can fuck off with your comment.

[@lee5105]

Thanks

[@ArthursAtman]

you do your job really well sir...keep it up

[@davidking6303]

This is so hard to hear and I can’t imagine how hard it is for the military vets who fought in these regions to hear this. It’s sickening. There’s so much intelligent individuals in America yet the ones calling the shots for America are a bunch fools.

[@lpg12338]

Yes, one of those people thought that Guam would tip over when they added more Marines and equipment to the island. 🤣

[@FarmerFpv]

It's all Donald Trump's fault. If Biden was in the office earlier this would have not happened. He left a mess for Joe Biden.

[@Mike-ck8kl]

It's freaking soul rending.

[@niksutliff]

Of those $7 billion in losses, how much of that $7 billion was already paid out? It's the taxpayer that foots the bill, the "loss" isn't even that - just a wealth transfer

[@jake1776]

Biden should have his house searched by the FBI over giving weapons to terrorists in violation of state law. Oh shoot. Never mind. The FBI is run by the DNC.

[@Faus4us]

I lost a brother, 1st. Lt. Trevarius R. Bowman, in Afghanistan. We went through BCT together. There are no words to describe how pissed I am at the incompetence of American leaders. You've been failing the People. America needs to unite in peace. Step down so we can have it🙏

[@manydirt2600]

I looked Bowman up, he looks like a good guy. I'm sorry for your loss. You're not alone in your anger and disappointment. We need more people like him in the world, and if by our leadership's incompetence they're sacrificed for nothing - they absolutely should step down

[@captainharris8980]

This won't be of any comfort to you, but, a I posted on other forums, the US had the exact same problem with the Apache tribes in the 1800s, and the only way to get them off the war path was through deceit and colonization. They were desert warriors just like the Taliban, but the US strategy didn't seem to cut off the Taliban's arm supplies coming from former Russian satellite states. So, in a sense the US was at war with Putin. And I think ultimately that's why the effort failed.

[@unclelumbago9292]

@john dowe notsees 💀

[@cliffc2546]

I have to say a political thing. Obama announced that US policy was that the US would withdraw forces at some point in the not too distant future. Trump foolishly carried the ball and negotiated the agreement with the Taliban, against the advice of his generals. Finally, Biden completed the job with a debacle that it seems only America could possibly achieve in scope and breadth. The entire withdrawal project told the Taliban that they could wait out the US, and once the US was gone, there would be no one to stop them so there was no reason to put down their weapons and get with the new, modern Afghanistan. The Afghan people generally got the message, too, so it's no wonder they accepted the Taliban. Resistance would truly be futile, and the writing was on the wall. The American people have been led by the worst, appalling presidents over the last 20 or so years. They've negotiated or just completely abandoned the sacrifices and achievements that the country paid, all for the fleeting political goal of saying they ended a war that had essentially been won, which was the case for both Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghanistan, of course, had become a low intensity conflict with no US casualties for almost 2 years before Biden pulled the plug, to the dismay of America's allies. An absolute catastrophe and yet another American tragedy.

[@bigshow196]

@john dowe why not? were already have a failing educational system just from this post alone......notsees......what are you, 8?

[@unowackelin.5152]

I realy like thees longer more serious videoes. You have become one of my go to chanels for stuff like this

[@drberrydds1]

Shocker!

[@CedarHunt]

It's not US military equipment, it's afghan army stuff. Just more proof they didn't deserve our support.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

That's the same thing.

[@meisterproper8304]

You were an occupier who suppressed the local population for 20 years with nothing to show for it. The regular Afghan army was full of drug addicts and other bums, cause thats the kind of people who are willing to play soldier for an invader. This is a lesson for every big power to avoid such useless forever wars

[@TomG1555]

@@meisterproper8304 Well, now the Taliban are in charge again. I leave to the reader to decide if that's a better situation, for the Afghan people, their neighbors, and the world at large.

[@MasterBetty545]

We should have never been providing them with these large quantities of equipment if the ANA was so crap to begin with. But that's the U.S. govt for you, can get nothing done but waste money.

[@utsabghosh331]

Us not destroy advance weapon us give advance weapon to Taliban.

[@MrElliptific]

I like how Cappy puts in our face the debacle and sub-par decision making while not even saying once those words.

[@2157AF]

The debacle is not the lost equipment but that we didnt get a viable nation that wanted to defend its people. Back in 2002 we should have had Pakistans full co operation to protect the future govt of Afghanistan.

[@phraker5709]

Clearly hes trying to avoid being political

[@Oblivisci........]

@@phraker5709 To me that's a good thing. When facts become political they start to cease being facts and become fodder for propaganda. Something in America that is increasingly becoming a problem.

[@fredmeyer369]

@@2157AF feels like Afghanistan was mismanaged from day 1 - until the end. Blaming Biden for the change of orders, but really... should we have stayed for a country that couldn't defend their selves? I just now realized I was 14 when Afghanistan started, ended when I was 34. Just insane.

[@KlaustheViking]

@@2157AF Even though Pakistan is clearly in favor of the terrorism.

[@williamlewis1805]

This ticks me off

[@brockjohnson5068]

It took years to get all that stuff there, and in theory the Afghan Army would utilize it when we left, but the pace at which they folded (Because they saw their leaders run for the hills) was staggeringly fast. I would have thought the night vision goggles you would want to keep , but then again if you take them from the Afghan Army while they still might have a use for them - it sends a bad message. But i believe there are newer goggles that will make those old ones obsolete.

[@gbtalon2554]

I can say that most of the Humvees in Helmand Province were in really bad shape before we left. I was shocked that hafe the ones I looked at were still operating.

[@joelau2383]

Then it explains why Taliban won. Because their enemy only had crappy equipments.

[@juntingiee2602]

@@joelau2383 while the taliban literally uses guns from ww1 💀

[@buravan1512]

why did you live? coward.

[@advaitparab4852]

@@juntingiee2602 they dont. They used ex soviet weapons leftover after the russians left. They buy counterfiered m4A1s and mp5s made in pakistan. They also have a shit ton of weapons leftover from the time americans funded them to fight the russians.So yes they dont use outdated weapons.

[@gbtalon2554]

@@joelau2383 the Afghanistan army that were fighting had a up hill battle. The vehicle maintenance was only 1 part. Its sad the one that believed in what we were selling, wanted us to hold there hands forever.

[@virtualyme7659]

This is disgraceful. My impression is that much of this had belonged to the now defunct Afghan Army. This will be just a part of the price we pay for going to war for 20 years in Afghanistan. All we needed was the special forces to begin with to go kill Al Qaeda yet we put boots on the ground and mistakenly took it's upon ourselves to try nation building in a place that did not want or know how to be a nation. This place is filled with a fractious multitude of tribes in an inhospitable land with no means to connect themselves and apparently no desire to do so. It also seems are intelligence apparatus involved in planning doesn't look into the history of this God awful place. Just like so many other places we have become involved in where we do not understand the dynamics of the people's we fight against and for. What a collosal waste in every respect. It's maddening. It makes me wish we had given every single bit of this military hardware to the Ukrainians. God knows where it's going to end up no matter where we give it. If we're not the ones using it we have lost control of it.

[@Industrialitis]

Bingo.

[@pudanielson1]

american arrogance and exceptionalism on display for 20 years sadly

[@yeoshenghong4802]

Thank Joe Biden

[@swirvinbirds1971]

@@yeoshenghong4802 You do know that it was Trump that negotiated the withdrawal and set the timeframe right?

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

actually the modern disunity of afghanistan was mostly kicked off during thesoviet occupation and the US- and saudi-supported jihadist insurgency against them. and I'm pretty sure that until a while before that (some military coup activity and a transition to some sort of republic), afghanistan was a pretty stable kingdom for like 2-300 years. poor as hell, but no civil war. afghanistan is what it is today because it is a casualty of the cold war, and tgen of the war on terror, so it's two responsibility points to the US and one to the soviet union. though it is worth pointing out that the soviet-afghan war killed waaaaaaaay more people than the NATO invasion and occupation, that was a really horrible war.

[@brucestack1658]

I see you flipped the flag, thank you. Love that you read the comments and were open minded! Keep up the great content.

[@carlroberson972]

"Disorganized withdrawal"--understatement of the decade.

[@Hamsteak]

As a Afghan Vet from 09, I can say it looks strange seeing the Taliban with modern western Arms and not crappy jiggeled up Ak's

[@dorkangel1076]

A year or so and they'll be back to AK's. There's a reason the AK is the weapon of choice.

[@tommygun5038]

They will never be able to maintain modern equipment. All that equipment will be useless in a decade. Even faster when they inevitably fall back into civil war.

[@hamie7624]

@@dorkangel1076 Ak is all they have spare parts for.

[@S1lverarrow]

@@hamie7624 lol, dont worry, US will "lost" more equiptment to them somehow like it already happened many times. In order for military industrial complex to get richer, ther must be more chaos. Btw 70% of military aid to Ukraine are lost somehow and to somewhere.

[@GeoZero]

I can understand leaving behind heavier equipment - but 6,300 sniper rifles? Are there even that many snipers in the Army? And all the other small arms - 350,000+ rifles, 64,000+ machine guns and 18 million rounds of ammo??? Seriously this smells like we did a deal and they were left on purpose.

[@Clifford_Banes]

Of course they made a deal. Trump negociated it and Biden signed it.

[@LosSerpent]

For real

[@nutmeister1961]

All of that was suppose to go to the ANA. But we never made a effort of training the afghan military to not immediately surrender and give all their gear to the tablian. Plus trump releasing prisoner or wars, as well as Biden sending the military back, yeah no one in the US government didn't precieve the disaster that was coming to them.

[@Industrialitis]

This was all stuff that was meant for the new Afghani army that just never really crystallized. In the end there was no way to "unpack" all of that material.

[@thepsychicspoon5984]

For your first question: Your not going to make only 1 rifle per soldier. Thats dumb on a logical standpoint. You always want a surplus.

[@justinporta6601]

3:40 big facts!!!

[@Nathan-oh3kf]

This makes my stomach turn, I can’t watch this.

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

Honestly this whole situation was disgraceful, the war was alright for a few years but as I’ve heard from you, the locals couldn’t care less for who was in charge and cared more about getting high, the US should of realized that, made it their public statement and fucked off

[@orkhepaj]

yep , iwould have send only strat bombers to level everything

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

@@orkhepaj well I won’t pretend to say that would not of fixed anything, cause it would of, but the US relies too much on foreign resources to take such a massive PR hit like that. There honestly was no good answer to this, if the US didn’t go in then they would of looked weak to the world, and if they did (as they did) we all know what happened. All in all the best case was if they used a world wide PR campaign to discredit the local population and make them out as nothing but crack heads the whole population and then leave because of it.

[@bloodfiredrake7259]

@@orkhepaj You lot are savages. Thank god my country has the nukes to keep you animals civilised.

[@peterdenov4898]

That's the excuse they want you to believe, truth is the US put way more effort in training and equipping the Talibans than they did with the Afgan army. AA was also basically “taught” to fight with the wrong combat doctrine which relied on US air superiority (that ultimately went completely offline) as it's spine for operation and high tech superiority (for which they didn't receive the equipment till the last two weeks of the war, ffs it wasn't even “recieved” is was “left” after mass dissertation).

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

@@peterdenov4898 true enough, but what I said still rings true, the US should of just came in, whooped ass as they did, get the bad guys, then leave. But then again what was even the point of starting the war in the first place, besides revenge.

[@marginbuu212]

China's gonna have a lot of brand new shit once they've reverse engineered all of that tech.

[@MandalorV7]

They probably have already stolen the tech from the U.S military industrial complex.

[@pfzht]

IMAGINE MY SHOCK...

[@GardeningWarrior]

I have felt for some time that all of that was left behind on purpose. I guess now we know it more than likely was.

[@somaliano99kingkonghimself75]

The British before they left Somalia they left so much guns that almost 70% of the Somali clan then it all started fighting inland witch is what they want

[@expandedhistory]

People think the United States left a lot in Afghanistan.. wait till they hear what we left in Vietnam.

[@mbogucki1]

Seriously. People think this is all Biden's fault and blah, blah, blah. In the end, the bean counters at the Pentagon pull out a calculator and tally up the cost of leaving junk behind vs. hauling it back to the US for scrap.

[@MinhNguyen-pk9qk]

lots of m16, huey helicopters, chinhooks, you name it.

[@TheSilentpigs100]

at least Vietnamese aren't producing the outline for global terrorism by selling the equipment gaining leverage and power.

[@Channel-23s]

All because public opinion was low not one foot of land was lost and the NVA was very close to losing said NVA Generals shit more Russian troops will die in Ukraine then US Soldiers in Vietnam all in half-1 year vs 10 years

[@mbogucki1]

@@TheSilentpigs100 Well yeah, the Vietnamese had much bigger goals in mind; Global Communism.

[@ALJR223]

If I leave a gun in my house and it's not locked up and someone breaks into my house takes the gun and uses it to kill somebody I am criminally liable so this entire Administration should be tried for criminal negligence and they should all rot in prison this is so unacceptable

[@litsci4690]

You are correct, sir.

[@texaswunderkind]

Trump signed the surrender to the Taliban, including the withdrawal deadline. So you want to imprison both the previous administration and the current? The military and civilian government includes tends of thousands of employees, are you going to imprison them all?

[@Rocketsong]

@@texaswunderkind The Trump administration negotiated a 20 point disengagement agreement. The current administration ignored the agreement, and just pulled out without a plan.

[@Nathan-oh3kf]

This is sick.

[@compedsushi9030]

I havn't had a drink since that day, stay strong there will be better days ahead.

[@MrAnonymousRandom]

Even if the equipment were handed over to the Afghan army, much of it would end up being stolen. Corruption, poor pay, and poor morale render the Afghan army useless.

[@user-ug5xr2gb6j]

I’m getting a little déjà vu with Iraq.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@user-ug5xr2gb6j Iraq is friendly but is influence by Iran, but when push comes to shove it would side with the US.

[@MrAnonymousRandom]

@@user-ug5xr2gb6j The whole war on terror is a joke. Afghanistan is back in Taliban hands after 20 years. Iraq is a breeding ground for terrorists and is a borderline failed state without Saddam to maintain order. Invading Saudi Arabia and the cutting off the donations going towards exporting Islamic fundamentalism makes far more sense.

[@user-ug5xr2gb6j]

@@MrAnonymousRandom or we could quit giving them a reason to want to blow us up, and worry about our domestic issues that are spiraling out of control, lol. We’re good at exacerbating a problem. We declared war on poverty, drugs and terror and there’s only been more of it since. Why solve the problem when fixing it just enough to maintain it keeps a steady cash flow.

[@MrAnonymousRandom]

@@enriqueperezarce5485 And what do you exactly mean by Iraq? All the different factions have their own loyalties. The only faction I can think of that would support the US is the Kurds and that's if they continue to tolerate the American track record of stabbing them in the back. The Sunni Muslims and Saddam's old guard which lost their privileged status went on to cause trouble, including founding ISIS. The Shiites are having their own internal power struggle - Iran influenced factions vs factions led by local clerics.

[@ethan3009]

It was honestly surprising how much equipment was left behind in Afghanistan

[@niteknight265]

It was more surprising how many Americans were left to die.

[@mbogucki1]

Not really. Pretty much every conflict ends with crap being left behind. Its just being overblown for political reasons. And good luck to the Afghans in maintaining that shit. US equipment is not like Soviet era stuff.

[@Channel-23s]

Well it was a quick withdrawal due to the ANA folding faster then a Beach chair and the lack of fortifications of bases and other key places that Biden ignored

[@GotGracexxxxx]

Absolutely! Surrender deal was signed February 2020. Seems like the equipment could have been removed in the time before the Taliban overran the place.

[@christopherwang4392]

Without spare parts, trained personnel, and an organized infrastructure, It is doubtful that the Taliban could put their arsenal of American-made military gear to good use.

[@SVOceanBird]

Left the Ammo too 👍 Smart

[@brianajohansson2601]

That is probably not gonna be a problem at all....probably Great and informative video!

[@snapturtle3253]

a low rank lost a magazine : THAT IS NOT TOLERABLE. SERIOUS PUNISHMENT! General left billions of weapons to terrorist : hehe

[@nvelsen1975]

Police that bras!

[@serronserron1320]

One push-up for the generals to complete for every scrap of equipment that was left over there

[@michaelwilliams9574]

The general did not make the decision. Your comment is pretty ignorant. The weapons and equipment weren't left to terrorist. They were left to the Afghanistan army which went belly up as soon as American forces left the country

[@michaelwilliams9574]

Besides, losing a magazine would only result in a small statement of charges. Or it could easily be covered in a report of survey

[@bdan6954]

@@michaelwilliams9574 go away

[@Realcjs]

Seeing this it’s understandable why recruitment is low. What a failure! So many good men died for nothing

[@SM-nz9ff]

Who wants to serve with Biden as commander in chief, he's one of the worst in US history

[@xyanide1986]

All this gear left behind is still very bizarre to me

[@bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689]

As it turns out, leaving everything behind and withdrawing means you leave everything behind when you withdraw.

[@commonoildrinker3946]

Bruh the taliban looks like they got better gear than some south east asian armed forces

[@christopherwang4392]

Without spare parts, trained personnel, and an organized infrastructure, those Western military gear will fall apart and the Taliban will face the same kind of logistical nightmares encountered by ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

[@kriegsvogel1577]

Exactly theyre more powerful than my country

[@user-yo7ue2mv2q]

At least they have maintenance.

[@firen777]

Wonder which country has been providing technical and political support to the taliban while simultaneously has a grudge against India...

[@meisterproper8304]

To be fair, Pakistans left hand doesn't know what the right does. The are many colliding interests in government, army and secret service. This results in Pakistan aiding groups that actively terrorise their own population

[@nvelsen1975]

Russia doesn't have a grudge against India. India is its biggest arse-kisser.

[@serronserron1320]

Pakistan, and probably some help from Russia who doesn't care who wins so long as they can sell more weapons to both.

[@flawless_Cowboy]

Possibly China

[@dickiewongtk]

@@flawless_Cowboy Pakistan is the puppet, China is the master.

[@lightdarklightdarklightdark]

who could have ever seen this coming

[@benreifhardt4471]

I'm really surprised none of the bigger ticket items don't have remote kill switches of some kind.

[@thepsychicspoon5984]

Lets all be honest. We all knew this was bound to happen sooner than later.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Yup. No way this was going to be avoided; we were there for 20 years.

[@Repented008]

Cmon! America got lots of stuff when the Nazis left Germany, how is this any different? Let em live. They need that equipment to feed their families.

[@andyf10]

@@CharliMorganMusic Easily avoided. by disabling the kit before leaving. Take the bolts, throw sand in engine oil and run till seizure. Burn stuff. It doesn't take much planning....... oh but there is the key word "planning"

[@mikeholme1388]

@@andyf10 The vast majority of the materiel was property of the Afghan military, and they were still using it. This outcome was inevitable as of Feb 29, 2020 when the Doha agreement was signed between the USA and the Taliban in the absence of any Afghan government representation which didm't help the already pathetic legitimacy of that puppet kleptocracy. Perhaps Biden could have reversed it, but that would have only delayed the exact same outcome down the road, and would have hurt US credibilty in regards to agreements. So the only way YOUR approach works the USA says "give us back all your military equipment so we can leave". You see the problem yes? You are listening to anti-American propaganda.

[@andyf10]

@@mikeholme1388 Churchill fought and sank much of the French Fleet (his allies) to stop it getting into German hands. Maybe Biden could have shown the same backbone? I'd have had planes dropping bombs on all that material the day after leaving, rather than it getting into Talib hands in functioning order. An agreement with the Taliban isn't something I'd lose sleep over tearing up. But then, I wouldn't have made one in the first place.

[@jackjones9460]

Agreeing to an achievable measurable goal before starting into any combat seems reasonable. Maybe we can start there.

[@Baltimoreborn]

Basically surplus I think I saw a guy carrying the M-16 A1 I qualified expert with at Fort Benning in 1992

[@cowboymf1013]

Has it already been a year? Too bad nothing's changed.

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

tell that to the indians who used to be alive, but are now dead, killed by the weapons the US left behind.

[@cowboymf1013]

Nothing has changed, the U.S. government is still bungling at every turn and people are still suffering and dying because of it, with weak leaders with destructive motives we continue to seal devastating fates for thousands around the world for decades, even centuries to come.

[@kristiangoransson6104]

As I remember my time in Afghanistan is all the broken Russian equipment all over the place, the amount of spare parts flown in every week to sustain our small Swedish contingent were massive. Not even the US Army could sustain their equipment without the help from contractors outside of the army, the neighboring countries won’t like Afghanistan to be a heavily militarized country. The material left behind isn’t the latest and greatest and China, India and Pakistan already have that types of equipment, some sold to them by the US.

[@Datacorrupter234]

60% of it was sunscreen. skin cancer deluxe

[@hawkmandude8059]

Hur många soldater var där nere?

[@michealbaker8216]

Lol US is not selling equipment to China

[@manyinterests1961]

@@hawkmandude8059 and why is that relevant and important?

[@hawkmandude8059]

@@manyinterests1961 someone is butthurt, i just asked. You prefer me ask something philosophy instead? Jäkla snorunge

[@samrock7632]

I am hoping some of this equipment starts going up on eBay soon!

[@therond.patron4959]

I am totally not surprised.

[@inhuman4]

More embarrassing than the equipment left behind is the fact that no one has been held accountable for that cluster fuck of an exit.

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

Military warned govt of this possibility. But, Biden wanted to exit ASAP before 9/11 for domestic politics and created this mess. So, president himself is responsible. Now what, send Biden to jail?

[@chichan8424]

You mean every president and cabinet member since W?

[@KB4QAA]

TB: The US did not abandon the equipment. It belonged to the Afghan army.

[@looseygoosey1349]

@@KB4QAA These people are not going to listen. They don't like that it was Afghan army weapons.

[@ryanbales8116]

The withdrawal fucked the British and our other Allies who were still in country too.

[@elcidgranada3549]

Remember pakistan, a US ally helped the talibans after **** left. A great ally indeed.

[@John-cb8ot]

Love that “Kilroy was here” flag in the background!

[@peterweller8583]

Out freakin standing

[@MrRedsjack]

"they can't reapair them" Of course they can. Most military equipment is designed the be repairable by a grunt. Afghanistan is a big country and there are engineers with university degrees there and tens of thousands of car mechanics. Also there is enough equipment that they can cannibalize veichles for decades for spares and a good workshop can make many of the spares needed. People in the middle east can keep all sorts of trucks running for decades after their use by dates, humvees and mraps aren't that different.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

Yeah I called bullshit on that. Even if they couldn't they could call China or Russia to help them out, who would be happy to oblige.

[@sumotony]

Wrong on the engineers, USA uni's were educating Afghani's in Women's Studies ;)

[@mrleaf7195]

Yup

[@sirmister5383]

they just sent the broken parts to kyber pass. those guys can make anything

[@bobtehdinosaur]

@@sumotony I don't understand what your point is

[@POVDEAD]

Wait pulling out of the middle east and leaving behind 7 billion dollars in MILITARY equipment would lead to the taliban extending their reach out of their own borders, and give them the capability to organize and fight like a real military? Who could have seen this coming!?!?!?!?!

[@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681]

They would have had guns anyway.

[@atomiklam]

Set up the flank, we can spot them now. If we sold it to them sneak-deaky like, we go get our shit back and keep the money. Profit???

[@DairyCat]

@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 Night vision equipment would give them a marked edge vs other groups in Afghanistan.

[@Zretgul_timerunner]

This whould have been the case even without us intervention... This began when the us built up the mujihadeen during the afghan soviet war.

[@meisterproper8304]

@@DairyCat they already had a bunch of thermal/night vision equipment before the fall of the government (probably through contacts in the ISI and corrupt Afghani officers. They released a bunch of thermal vision footage showing them completely decimating army outposts full of oblivious soldiers.

[@adamcavanaugh4940]

"We didn't think they would fall immediately" vs "We have demilled and made useless military equipment left that for months"

[@harlan51537]

Thank You for fixing the flag. Love your videos. I always give you a thumbs up. Thank You for keeping up the excellent work.

[@flipeverything2734]

I spent an entire extra week in FTX looking for a psq20 that was “lost” because it was a sensitive item… but we leave 20k of them to the talaban🤔

[@Datacorrupter234]

same, still on my wishlist. still to much of a broke, tired 9-5, american to buy one

[@stanmoroncini8825]

To the Afghan military bro, we didnt just leave it laying in heaps in the desert. The afghan military and police, who refused to fight and cut and run or defected to the Taliban gave it to them. Come on man.

[@flipeverything2734]

@@stanmoroncini8825 because anyone actually thought the Afghan military would fight and hold onto the equipment? Come on man.

[@stanmoroncini8825]

@@flipeverything2734 so we take all our equipment and weapons back? And then what? You complain when they fail regardless and say we shouldnt have left them without weapons and equipment? Or we just keep fighting a forever war in afghanistan for another 20 years, maybe you and a future son die in it? all for what? A government and country that dont even care about existing, as was obviously shown? Come on bro.

[@flipeverything2734]

where did ur comment go?? Come on bro.

[@davidcarbonnel6396]

Hi Chris, I just wanted to let you know that I've been coming to your channel for about a year now. It's a great place place to find geopolitical information amoung other things. Your research is very good and you don't tend to take sides. I really appreciate all the work you guys do to keep this channel going. So yeah simply put: THANKS (Oh and don't forget to take some time off too ;)

[@nicolasbouchard6331]

I've seen a video of a gun market in Afghanistan and they litterally had every type of weapon from nowdays to the cold War

[@roy-batty]

They forgot, I'm sure it was left there by accident.

[@xXCatalystic37Xx]

Thanks for another video!

[@equallyeasilyfuqyou]

It’s a disgrace what’s happened to Afghanistan after we left. We abandoned everyone who helped us to the wolves.

[@AL-lh2ht]

They give up the first chance they got. They deserved nothing from the US.

[@monkeyboy600]

We were there for 20 years dude

[@MasterBetty545]

I really don't want to hear about how we abandoned anyone. Just look at Ukraine and how they held up against Russia. Just think of how all that equipment would have been better used in Ukrainian hands instead of the useless sand box of Afghanistan.

[@nvelsen1975]

@@AL-lh2ht That's complete nonsense, get a grip. The ANA held out forever despite having huge problems, such as pro-American warlords with their brutality creating more insurgents than the army could ever take out. The Dutch deposed Matiulah Khan, a psychopath and mass-murderer who was extremely hated and a walking Taliban recruitment poster. Want to know the first thing the US did after the Dutch mission from Uruzgan withdrew? Yeah, they re-instated M and instantly the number of insurgents tripled.

[@cspdx11]

there was a report that 96% of Afghans with special visas to come here were left behind.

[@ThatOnePeacekeeper]

Seeing all of that hardware left behind is still fucking painful

[@Smartcoughdrop]

Can't believe it's been a year

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Yeah, let's never do this again.

[@garethrichmond4388]

The Afghan forces were trained by the Americans using the U.S. military model based on highly technical special reconnaissance units, helicopters and airstrikes. We lost our superiority to the Taliban when our air support dried up and our ammunition ran out. Contractors maintained our bombers and our attack and transport aircraft throughout the war. By July, most of the 17,000 support contractors had left. A technical issue now meant that aircraft - a Black Hawk helicopter, a C-130 transport, a surveillance drone - would be grounded. The contractors also took proprietary software and weapons systems with them. They physically removed our helicopter missile-defense system. Access to the software that we relied on to track our vehicles, weapons and personnel also disappeared. Real-time intelligence on targets went out the window, too." Even worse the have Afghan army was totally reliant helicopters to resupply them in the various cities why?. Because after the April 2020 Taliban deal and the massive drop in airstrikes the US recommended strategy to Afghan security forces was to abandon the rural areas and concentrate their forces on Urban areas. Essentially giving the Taliban freedom of movement throught the country unmolested. Within months the Taliban had gained control of highways to such a degree they set up outposts to tax truck drivers. You remember when NATO kept saying Russia was really bad at logistics at the start the war. When NATO decided to cede control of the main supply routes throughtout Afghanistan basically without a fight. With in control that means no road resupply between the urban centers the Afghan security forces had told to focus on. Resupply had to be by helicopters that the Afghans we never taught how to maintain because NATO thought it made more sense to pay private contractors insane amounts of money to do instead. So when the maintenance contractors left in April there was no way to do even routine maintenance minor technical issues could ground aircraft. And since the contractors literally stripped out the aircraft and cut off access to certain software happened a lot. If you train an army to fight with with advantages enjoyed by NATO style and the overnight take away those advantages and given the enemy a full year of uncontested freedom of maneuver to shape the battlefield what the f do thing is going to happen. NATO didn't fight a 20 year campaign in Afghanistan it fought ten two year campaigns.

[@FrankBUILTperformance]

Interesting!

[@looseygoosey1349]

all of that but the taliban had less than the Afghan army. look what happened. If the Taliban could pull it off then the Aghan also could. Lets be honest, the men love the Taliban.

[@randomka-52alligatorthatis34]

@@looseygoosey1349 The ANA had serious problem with Ghost Soldiers. To the point that both the US and even the Afghans themselves weren't even sure if the numbers they had on paper was even close to its true number.

[@peterdenov4898]

@@looseygoosey1349 Talibans waren't taught to rely on permanent air domination and high tech superiority to fulfill their basic functions, they ware adapting precisely on how to overcome them while in unbearably worse continuous which created huge skill difference spike which in turn was just free invitation for victory once they all went offline. You have peasants which ware taught only to create massive artificial rivers, lakes, and seas to slow down the Mongolian horde advancement and a near apocalyptic drought which effectively bridged all continents by land, what do you expect to happen next?

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

Question : WHY do Americans continue to increase the budget of the military industrial complex when they still FAIL at their missions from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other countless of foreign interventions? The sheer incompetence is beyond delusional at this point.

[@avoiddramapeople]

oh boy... now he knows too😳😱

[@joshualittle877]

This, right here, and I'm speaking about what Chappie said about the vehicles and the Taliban control of the country, is why none of the Afghan villages in the Mountains where most of Afghanistan population actually lives wanted to support the US building roads. Road construction was a major "project" of the International Effort. One of our largest failures in Afghanistan that lead to all others was a failure to connect the government in Kabul to the people they sought to govern. Those people didn't want to be connected. Number one they saw that government as ineffectual and corrupt, and despite all the best efforts it was. Number two there is the enviable Taliban takeover and if those roads had been built the Taliban, as he said would control more than ever before. This situation would be even worse had those roads ever been constructed. It's hard to pay attention to much else when you see they have up Armored Humvees but they also got a fleet of fairly low milage highly mobile Ford Ranger Pickups that we gave the ANA. Here is an even bigger question. Hezbollah in Lebanon now has up Armored Humvees and All sorts of US hardware including a variety of US Armored vehicles. They do have a multi billion dollar budget to work with but where did they get that hardware? They had it long before the US pull out in Afghanistan?

[@gharretje]

Hezbollah got a lot of hardware from the days of fighting the Islamic State. Remember when Iraq and Syria were fighting Islamic State (which in turn had a lot of captured US equipment, which got captured again by forces they were fighting)? Ideologically they're not too far from Iranian sentiment, so if Hezbollah (or similar groups) are willing to fight your common enemy, it makes sense to provide them hardware you have, which so happens to be US hardware. There were videos of Hezbollah (or similar groups, can't remember exactly) using M1(A1?) Abrams tanks to fight Islamic State. Makes sense that they would keep some to themselves afterwards.

[@genericscout5408]

support from villages to build roads seems irrelevant when they're not actively shooting workers.

[@joshualittle877]

@@genericscout5408 Not at all when your fighting a Counterinsurgency. Not sure if you went to Afghanistan or not but unlike Iraq that simply had roads that were obstructed and destroyed( as well as other infrastructure) Afghanistan never had any. It's as splintered as it is because it had almost 0 infrastructure of any kind. It has a population of 35 million roughly 4.4 million in Kabul 500,000 in Khandahar, 500,000.in Mazar e Shariff, 600,000 way out west in Herat next to the Iranian Border. That's 5.6 million. The rest about 30 million are spread out all over the place in little mountain villages all over the place. A government, in order to govern needs to be connected to the people it seeks to govern..Imagine if you lived in say New York or LA and you needed the fire dept or police or the power company to, I don't know save your life and the largest mountains on planet earth are between them and you and there are no roads to get there and no one had aircraft either. This means your on your own. Add to that in Afghanistans case that because they don't really like Americans or anyone else telling them what to do or how to live they don't want a road to their front door. The Taliban outsmarted us by using an age old and what should have been a very obvious strategy. We as Westerners tend to think of government and everything else on our terms instead of viewing it how they know it. Islamic governments like Saddam, and Bashar Al Assad and Hosni Mubarek are modeled on the Nazi 3rd Reich they are modeled after European government to better interface with Europeans and the rest of the World they are thus wholly secular in nature, Afghanistan's Taliban is Islamist in nature. Not as insane as Al Qaeda or ISIS but Islamist none the less Iran is a bit of a hybrid. It has a Western Style government much like Iraq and for the same reasons but it's the Shite Islamists that run everything. Islamic governments going all the way back to the Ottomans tend to be absentee rulers they only Crack the whip when Someone makes trouble as long as your good Muslims Islam is aloud to govern itself. The Taliban while pretty horrific by Western and even Eastern standards isn't and wasn't horrible in the sense that we tend to think. They were not authorities like The Baathists were. They issued a list of rules appointed a government and small militia to govern each province and let it all run itself. This meant as long as you were obedient to the rules and kept the local militia happy you were left alone. The Pashtun that make up most of the country and most of the Taliban in addition to Islam and actually superseding it follow the Pashtunawali Tribal code. Number one rule one Pashtun male does not order or tell another Pashtun Male what to do so as long as he observing them rules he's left alone. These villagers understand that if The Taliban has a road to the front door they will be encouraged to take a much more direct role as they are now trying to do. They beat us by fading into the backround and blending into the general population. We chased out the heads of Al Qaeda and people like Mullah Omar and the Taliban government in Kabul but as we now know the Taliban had all along secretly and quietly remained in place in the shadows and very few people gave them up. The whole of our operations there were for a very long time being subverted to fill the Talibans pockets with US Dollars and the very sane US Equipment we left behind its the classic piss of the US so the country can get a Makeover. All of that being said the big failure of the US is that successful Counterinsurgency has to secure local support to succeed. To do that you have to win hearts and minds by providing the locals what they value and what the Taliban isn't or can't provide. In this case the Taliban remained secretly in power the whole time and eventually emerged victorious simply because we were failing to give the people what THEY valued instead we treated then like children attempting to impart our values and that is the one thing in that part of the world that never works. Wether European Style Democracy or the Federalist Republicanism of the US it can't be imposed the people as a whole have to come to it on their own organically or it will never work. The Taliban, bad as they may be understood what the people valued in ways we never could because they are Afghans and we arent.

[@mnk9073]

Pakistan: "The Taliban are selling US equiptment and weapons into Pakistan!" Also Pakistan: *buys a crapton of US equiptment from the Taliban

[@hmmmm6685]

Give Pakistan some money and they will launch jihad against Russia in Ukraine. Most country in world have policy "live and let live" .whereas pakistan has policy of "I will suffer to make you suffer".

[@ineedpowers5151]

They say they will do reverse Engineering 🤣🤣.

[@wawaweewa9159]

Pakistan has a lot of sway in the taliban, many of the new taliban regime are paksitani, born and freely operated from Pakistan. Pakistan saw longterm America ain't gona keep afghnaistan

[@TolerantAcceptingModernCommuni]

@@ineedpowers5151 They have nuclear scientists, engineers and many more upcomming, wouldn't say thag would be hard.

[@danwilliams5867]

Always "The graveyard of empires". We had no business trying to bring a democracy to a land that has never known it. We should have pursued Al-Queda , whipped on Taliban till they ran, hand it over to some warlord who liked us (money) and said we will be back if you screw up again and left.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

We weren't trying to bring democracy, we are not even a democracy. We are a constitutional republic.

[@davidspiller7977]

Not the graveyard of empires. I agree with the rest of your comment, tho.

[@thebarry7546]

Afghanistan is not a graveyard of empires, it's just a graveyard.

[@danwilliams5867]

@@huwhitecavebeast1972 they have no idea what that means either. There culture was established about 2000 years ago. It's not going to change ever

[@Datacorrupter234]

@@danwilliams5867 the middle east has influenced us more than we have influenced them. christianity was forced on us, by them. along with it shortly after most northwest euros year zero onwards start to take on bits of arabian peninsula dna, the average northwest european is about 10% arabian peninsula about 3-8% in scandinavia and up to 30% in southeast germany. They might have failed in their conquest of spain as a whole but they will win this battle of influnce over us and will be the last standing at the end of the millenia

[@RWesleyClayton]

Sounds like the standard “first one’s free” marketing tactic. Once you get raving fans for your platform then they will be more likely to accept some conditions for access to ammo.

[@frankripley5188]

Here, stand still, pull this ring, wait for the flash....

[@nathanwilliams3877]

so goddamn embarrassing. the US military should've given ME this stuff. smh

[@johnwray393]

All I wanted was one set of NOGs. Is that to much to ask?

[@travispaskiewicz2663]

I too, want 300,000 rifles. Because dual-weilding just isn't enough in this day.

[@huwhitecavebeast1972]

Yeah the could have returned our tax dollars to us in that format.

[@schizoidfromsomewhere9341]

do you know how cool having a humvee is imagine the girls you could pick up with it

[@RoCK3rAD]

@@schizoidfromsomewhere9341 they’d get out after the first 10 minutes

[@fedupgamer9075]

This is an important story which draws a lot of attention to the civilian masses who don't understand how the military works, but we have left arms and munitions in every nation we have fought in throughout time. We were in Afghanistan for twenty years, and I can testify most of this equipment is well worn, and still operable, but requires proper maintenance or disposal. The key term in this is "Last Generation." The equipment is not surplus, but a lot of the stuff the military leaves is last generation equipment and costs us more to bring back and leave on the books. The U.S. military is moving on to newer firearms and electronics. For example the "Super Tocano aircraft is being phased out of use by the USAF.

[@amitsao009]

Saving some money in transportation and disposal of weapons will cost US strategically in future. Resulting in another $100 billion war.

[@balamohammed5947]

old weapons that are still lethal a now used on other nations and their citizens

[@xyzaero9656]

SOF Super Tucanos are phased out because these 5 airplanes were bought to test them in combat and this tiny fleet is pretty much useless and unsustainable and not because they are old or outdated. Super Tucano even plays in a class of it’s own.

[@samanders2676]

Don't they account for the technology theft? Even if we moved to better tech the enemies will still have very formidable firearms and other equipments.

[@yonahsefchovich5931]

It’s not so much about the US having the gear. You’re right, all that equipment can be easily replaced. It’s about not leaving it to our adversaries. We can easily make armored vehicles sure, but the Taliban? Not so much. Sure we can make M4s easy no problem. But now the Taliban has thousands more. These are weapons that will increase their effectiveness and lethality. Whether that’s against us or our Allies.

[@t0ny1189]

Over 400,000 Rifles and machine guns is insane

[@Pablo-sy1jw]

Doesn’t matter if they don’t know how to use it effectively

[@CoolClearWaterNM]

I can't tell what side you are on. That is a good thing. It means you are reporting, not pandering. Keep it up. The first step to solving any problem is a brutally honest appraisal of what the problem is. No problem has ever been solved by first misrepresenting the nature of the problem. You seem to get that. Rare these days.

[@RyleKittenhouse]

He’s a soy boy

[@KevinFrost]

Every time I remember how botched this retreat was from Afghanistan it makes me furious. The US government is such a bloated monster that doesn't care about how it spends money or how it effects people around the world or in its own country.

[@giftedgift9418]

Wait until all the weapons being sent to ukraine start appearing all over the world 😏

[@HerbertTowers]

@@Akompliss B×××.ockx!

[@wojciechstachowiak1746]

@@giftedgift9418 lol kremlin gremlin detected, point and laugh guys. How's the Crimea?

[@Eclipse-mk3hm]

*the biden administration

[@FarmerFpv]

It's all Donald Trump's fault. If Biden was in office earlier this would have not happened. He left a mess for Joe Biden.

[@ryanwinters9375]

At least when it comes to the more complex weapons my only real concern is who they’re going to sell them to and whether or not they hold any information we don’t want other nations having about our military equipment

[@norway678]

This has been going on since the 70s the Internet has just make it more well known.

[@jerrycampbell9376]

And, during the 'Nam, the VC were commonly found to be equipped with WWII weapons that we'd given the Chinese. Really, this sort of thing is not new, or even shocking. Weapons, drugs, slaves....all these have long been historically valuable goods that the winners trade to further their gains.

[@davidty2006]

Heck the maxim is still being used despite being a weapon from the 1800's.

[@Davitofrito]

And the VC after the test offensive in 1968 we're a spent and defeated force. America left a south Vietnam that was capable of handling the VC remnants. What it wasn't capable of doing was holding back the Vietnamese armored and mechanized troops that together with north Vietnam infantry & air force, invaded years later. Why would they be ready when the peace treaty we signed with with both north and south Vietnam stated we would com back if the north ever actually invaded for real rather than through proxies like Vietcong. We wrote a check we weren't prepared to cash and so Vietnam was lost.

[@texaswunderkind]

@@Davitofrito You're not seriously arguing that the United States could have won the Vietnam War had they just stuck around another ten years, are you? If you are, then you know jack shit about the history of Vietnam. They have been invaded and occupied by China, Japan, France, and the United States, and they are willing to think in terms of decades or even centuries to get the occupiers out. There was no scenario where the Americans were viewed as liberators. Just being there was the problem, not the solution.

[@4xhoser]

Good video Cappy, curious of how veterans feel about this when their brothers died over there 🇨🇦

[@umadbro1570]

We forgot to leave a Nuke....

[@justintyme4690]

And they want to tell me I'm not responsible enough for mine 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@toasterpastries5811]

*20 years, 20,000 wounded, 2,500 deaths, and Tens of trillions of dollars ALL WASTED*

[@killaken2000]

the contractors think differently

[@litsci4690]

Rich people got even more fucking wealthy. They wouldn't call it a "waste."

[@davidty2006]

only 2500 deaths? why does that sound so low?

[@porksterbob]

@@davidty2006 American deaths. Afghan deaths are far higher

[@MusicalMemeology]

Why on earth are they destroying a vehicle worth hundreds of thousands instead of shipping it back to the USA. Absolutely boggles the mind.

[@13thmistral]

transport costs often are higher then the actual worth of certain vehicles and equipment after a certain run time.

[@Rocketsong]

It would literally cost more in transport and fuel to fly 1960's APCs back to the US. Also almost none of this is actually "US equipment". It's mostly US surplus equipment that was given to the previous Afghan government. Stuff that was destroyed was stuff that is hard to move, and hard to fix, like aircraft. After WWII we dumped billions of dollars worth of equipment into the ocean because it was cheaper than bringing it back. (and environmentalism wasn't a thing)

[@strelok230]

I remember the shitstorm that erupted in my unit when a PV2 had his NVG's fall out of his ruck while in a helicopter. In hindsight, that single, old pair of NVG's wasn't even a drop in the bucket compared to all of this.

[@BigFred458]

What a total mess. Whoever allowed this must be punished.