Defence contractors gotta make some money yo.
yea but if everything was dismantled how will the next war start?
Afghanistan is about to have some SICK brodozers
2A'ers are already losing their shit about this graphic using the term "assault rifles"
By spending trillons of tax dollars on all new stuff, duh...... Raytheons pockets don't line themselves you know.
no i mean setting up the next enemy combatants. this was WAY easier then funneling them arms through the black market
I’d like verification of those numbers. While I don’t doubt that they got several thousand, I’m not sure I’d those numbers were really what was left, or what was originally spent/generated for the conflict. Numbers I had heard just after things going south indicated less, still significant though.
but if they're not already armed, how can you expect a 2 decade conflict?They don't have to have weapons when we can just make that shit up.
They seem to have done quite well for themselves the last 2 decades with what they already had.
have you not seen a marvel movie? they're setting up the sequel in the expanded universe
I wonder how that fucking guy can look himself in the eye, much less pick anything up with all the blood on his hands…They don't have to have weapons when we can just make that shit up.
Can you explain any further?
I think he's referring to the maintenance to keep all that big stuff running. They're not as reliable as the normal Toyota pickups.
Ah got it
Cannibalizing will probably work for a while with those kind of numbers.
No, that is exactly what all that shit was for. That's why we didn't blow it all up, and why they have so many Humvees. The Humvees are theirs because they were already in country when we switched to MRAPs so rather than shipping them home to be scrapped we gave them to the locals. We were at least hoping they'd fight off the Taliban, which would be a lot harder to do if we blew up all their shit. As with most things people lose their shit about on the internet, the explanation is actually pretty simple and not nearly as sinister as your crazy uncle seems to think.
And then you’ll fashion your own parts like rideit.
Indeed — Also it seems that the US installed regime was corrupt af and generally hated for it. Polling showed non-Taliban Afghans didn't care much about 'freedom and democracy' but did care a lot about security and food on the table. The occupation at least provided that. The bottom of the 'pyramid of needs' seems to be the main concern now the US is out.
But why? The US knew full well they built a house of cards and collapse would be swift and immediate. What does it say about a "government" and their "security forces" when the previous US leadership was negotiating with the enemy combatants surrounding an exit? That's a hell of a vote of confidence in the government they established and I'm totally empathetic with the Afghanistan security forces and police. There's no nobility in throwing one's self on the sword in a rigged situation. I feel sorry for the people of Afghanistan that became so invested in the idea of democracy. It was a big lie in so much that the US is unable to export democracy because we are no longer one. The US is an oligarchy run by economic elites and organized special interest groups which has retained the story and heritage of the concept of democracy.
