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Afghanistan
Task & Purpose: US Military Equipment Smuggled Out of Afghanistan and showing up in Kashmir being used against India
2022-08-18
Unexpectedly.
[YouTube] 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.
Posted by:DarthVader

#12  I think it began with 9/11. It just shouldn't have been a war in terror, but a war on Islam. Shit, now I need a hit of something or I'll go on all night...

[slinks away in search of something. Anything]
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 16:04  

#11  Honestly the converse never occurred to me till I saw what they were 'achieving' and calling it a victory. Hitting cow pastures with million dollar hardware and accepting reports of 'one hundred Taliban killed!' from Ghani's faggots. Taking 'value intel' from ISI, for raids and strikes, while being used to purge independent tribals, the pakis warning their own guys to get away. Looking for Mullah Omar. Looking for Mullah Omar? Like where the fcuk do you think he's gonna be? Then the 'translators' and ANDSF liaisons sitting in on opords, shit. Translators and cultural liaisons, moslems since 9/11. Just because the cake eaters can't be bothered to learn dari and Urdu. Even then I had the misgivings that maybe they're all sad sacks punching in, doing their bit and punching out, shirkers, blue falconing all the way, just a result of bad recruitment and hubris. But it was when they collectively conspired against the best commander in chief they'd had in decades that I knew. The US was in serious trouble. I wish there was a kind, not so gloom and doom way to say it.

It just angers me.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 16:00  

#10  Dron, I think you originally assumed like most people that our intelligence agencies were on the American side.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-08-18 15:18  

#9  Honestly, I think I would rather they have the equipment than money.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-18 10:13  

#8  /\ I felt that the guys and gals in Virginia almost wanted the campaign to fail.

Geo-political turmoil, crisis, and conflict are their bread and butter. I believe 1945 was the last time an adversary was vanquished.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-18 08:52  

#7  Yes, P2k. Public policy did become hostage to the scientific elite, as is evidenced by the coercion of an entire population to follow half baked unsettled science as a matter of imperative. The 'experts'.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 08:49  

#6  Thank you, guys. We tried our best I tell you. Reports, hard, actionable data. Cultivated assets, ready to use. Coordinates. Exact. Like shove your face into a map and point 'Thar be the enemy, thou dumb fcuk!' But I'll tell you something strange. It not only was met with the usual 'heh Indian Intel is like D4' scorn, I felt that the guys and gals in Virginia almost wanted the campaign to fail. I won't go into details but every once so often we'd get that impression that it was more like a controlled capitulation than something that got away from them.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 08:44  

#5  In fact of the MIC wanted to make money

Pittance compared to what is today raked in my the Academic and Technological Complex that Eisenhower warned about in the very next paragraph of his farewell address.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-08-18 08:12  

#4  well said dron
Posted by: Chris   2022-08-18 07:59  

#3  Dron, we could use a man like you in high office here.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-08-18 07:21  

#2  Everyone should watch the vid. It's not just about the stuff getting into India. It's more about the way this WOT was lost.


Don't worry about the stuff itself, your own guys are busy as doggies in flea season buying it all back. Worry about the callous waste of taxpayer money, on the absolute idiocy of the ⬠ in repeatedly trusting Pakistani intelligence and letting the bloody ANDSF and Ghani of all things take them for a ride. The convenience with which the USA was robbed by two dispensations of assholes and resources poured into a shithole that cannot, could not ever be helped. And even before that. The prospects of the Soviets kill kill killing every sasquatch in the region and planting their soon to be forgotten flag was such a big fcuking deal for DC. In retrospect was it really worth it, arming and training muzz in South Asia to ... what? Fight the commies? Hell, there are commies running DC!

I think DJT was the first guy who understood all this, plus the value of distancing from muzz, curbing their power and stopping aid to shitholes who've done nothing to help America or anybody. If the military and intelligence bureaucracy wasn't so spiteful of him, so hopelessly encrusted in their 'hoorah' theory and eager to pleasure the Dems; if they could work with the man rather than against, this whole snafu was easily avoided. In fact of the MIC wanted to make money, I'm sure he coulda let them make money, as long as they did their fucking jobs right. Rant over.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-18 03:10  

#1  That didn't take long.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-18 01:11  

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