Afghanistan failed withdrawal.... on purpose?

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Total incompetence or on purpose.

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Why not both?

$7 billion

The number I remember hearing was $80 billion

Im still laughing about the "super sonic" chini technology.

You mean to tell me we are spending nearly a trillion on weapons development and did not think of this?

We spend billions upon billions on 17 intel agencies (granted most of it is spent spying on us) but not one of them saw them working on this?

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my, we must spend another half trillion.

Course the slick clintons, they allowed our guidance tech to be sold to chini, got paid off by the chini. Then got the MIC to bump their budget to combat it and got a kick back as well.

On purpose. China had Hunter by the balls. Russia had hookers provide drugs Hunter almost ODed over.

China went in raiding the rare minerals soon after Biden withdrawed.

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The number I remember hearing was $80 billion

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I asked Grok before posting topic:

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Approximately $7.12 billion (often rounded to $7 billion) in U.S.-funded military equipment provided to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) remained in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021, according to a Department of Defense report to Congress.

cnn.com

This figure represents equipment transferred to Afghan forces (not U.S. military gear used by American troops, nearly all of which was retrograded or destroyed). It fell into Taliban hands after the Afghan government collapsed.

cnn.com

Key Details and BreakdownTotal equipment provided (2005–2021): About $18.6 billion in gear for the ANDSF.

cnn.com

Left behind: Roughly $7.12 billion, or about 38% of the total provided.

foxnews.com

Breakdown (from DoD and related reports):Military vehicles: ~$4.13 billion, including over 40,000 vehicles (e.g., ~12,000 Humvees out of ~23,825 total provided).

budget.house.gov

Aircraft: ~$923 million, including dozens of planes and helicopters (e.g., many of the ~78–80 aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport; Afghan Air Force had ~162 U.S.-provided aircraft inventory pre-collapse, with ~131 usable).

amu.tv

Munitions and related: Hundreds of millions (e.g., ~$295 million in air-to-ground munitions, plus guidance systems).

budget.house.gov

Weapons and other gear: Hundreds of thousands of infantry weapons (part of ~427,000 total provided), communications equipment, night vision devices, and more.

cbsnews.com

Important Context and ClarificationsNot $83–85 billion: This commonly cited higher figure refers to total U.S. appropriations/spending on the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund (ASFF) over ~20 years (training, infrastructure, salaries, etc.), not equipment left behind. Much of that was spent long before 2021, and a lot of gear was used up, inoperable, or removed/destroyed.

factcheck.org

Accounting challenges: The Pentagon and SIGAR noted tracking issues over years; the exact operational value or precise inventory at collapse isn't fully known, and some equipment has since degraded, been sold/smuggled, or cannibalized.

taskandpurpose.com

U.S. actions: Some equipment was disabled at the airport and embassy (e.g., ~70–80 aircraft rendered inoperable by damaging cockpits/avionics).

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