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2021-08-31 Afghanistan

Final US evacuation flights leave, ending America’s 20-year Afghanistan war, equipment left behind disabled

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-31 00:34|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide that produces an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction known as a thermite reaction. If aluminum is the reducing agent it is called an aluminothermic reaction. Most varieties are not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small area for a short period of time. The thermite is simply a mixture of metal, often called the "fuel" and an oxidizer. Its form of action is thought very similar to other fuel-oxidizer mixtures like black powder.

Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-08-31 08:13|| 2021-08-31 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2
See? Aluminum and ferric oxide
in ratio 1 is to 3,
will set your mind at rest
and make you tension free.

But no, Mr. Complex Process,
you'll paint signs oversized
on everything you leave behind
and call it 'Demilitarized'.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-31 08:24|| 2021-08-31 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently they missed the Blackhawk the Taliban was using to hang people with.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2021-08-31 08:37|| 2021-08-31 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 'I can't believe no one told me this was the last flight': US woman protecting more than 20 children and women trying to escape Afghanistan reveals they've ALL been completely abandoned

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-31 09:45|| 2021-08-31 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 First, some of these helicopters arrived in Afghanistan this year. What was the point? Was that just logistical momentum?

Second, helicopters can fly. We should have been flying them over to India. If someone is gonna get free helicopters I'd rather India get them. Also, each helicopter could have gone out loaded with civilians and/or carrying containers filled with stuff.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-31 13:35|| 2021-08-31 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Unless of course the goal was to give the Taliban the helicopters (and everything else) all along.
Sadly I wouldn't but it past the Biden/Obama regime - call it gunrunner 2.0.
One way to destabilize the region.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-31 13:46|| 2021-08-31 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 You do know that American equipment is highly computerized? And that all these computers have backdoors?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-31 15:01|| 2021-08-31 15:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect the equipment was for the afghan military that never was able to take possession because the collapse was so quick. If so you have to wonder why the Afghan military didn't load htem up with family and friends and head to the northern provinces that look like they are ready to fight the Taliban.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-08-31 17:42|| 2021-08-31 17:42|| Front Page Top

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