Melkomoinen katastrofi oli tuo USA:n vetäytyminen Afganistanista. Käsittämätöntä ettei sitä pystytty tekemään edes hieman hallitusti, useampia sotilaitakin kuoli ja aika massiiviset määrät jäi sotarompetta talibanille, yli 7 miljardilla dollarilla.
And the American largesse that created the Taliban’s boon in the first place was staggering. The U.S. Department of Defense estimated that left-behind stockpiles of arms and vehicles were worth $7.12 billion of the $18.6 billion spent from 2002 on arming the Afghan security forces. “This included roughly 600,000 weapons of all calibers, nearly 300 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, over 80,000 vehicles of several models, communications equipment, and other advanced materiel such as night vision goggles and biometric systems,”
according to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). After the military exit in the summer of 2021, SIGAR quoted a Taliban official as saying, “The group took possession of more than 300,000 light arms, 26,000 heavy weapons, and about 61,000 military vehicles.” That’s on top of what they already had.
Terrorists are shopping for left-behind American weapons—and turning them against Washington’s friends around the world.
foreignpolicy.com
Taliban piti juuri ison paraatin 3v vuosipäivänä, jenkkikamat pääosassa.
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