Afghanistan - It's Not Just People And Guns

[Independent thinker]

The US also left behind a large number of aircraft and other support vehicles. Surely we could have figured out a plan to get people and expensive equipment out before we let the Taliban take over. Who's that bearded guy flying that Black Hawk helicopter?

The Taliban have access to US military aircraft. Now what happens?

Numerous photos have surfaced on social media of Taliban fighters posing with Black Hawk helicopters, A-29 attack planes and other aircraft from the Afghan air force fleet.

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[Moonglow]

The military aircraft the US gave the Afghani air force?

 

[Lesh]

The US also left behind a large number of aircraft and other support vehicles. Surely we could have figured out a plan to get people and expensive equipment out before we let the Taliban take over. Who's that bearded guy flying that Black Hawk helicopter?

The Taliban have access to US military aircraft. Now what happens?

Numerous photos have surfaced on social media of Taliban fighters posing with Black Hawk helicopters, A-29 attack planes and other aircraft from the Afghan air force fleet.

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What we left behind was not equipment we would have used elsewhere and not anything close to "high tech".

The planes were all prop jobs.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

The US also left behind a large number of aircraft and other support vehicles. Surely we could have figured out a plan to get people and expensive equipment out before we let the Taliban take over. Who's that bearded guy flying that Black Hawk helicopter?

The Taliban have access to US military aircraft. Now what happens?

Numerous photos have surfaced on social media of Taliban fighters posing with Black Hawk helicopters, A-29 attack planes and other aircraft from the Afghan air force fleet.

news.yahoo.com

That belonged to the AAF, and ANA. That was Afghan stuff. We removed all of our materiel from the AOR.

 

[MisterBeale]

We have no idea what the terms of the peace accord that Trump signed with the Taliban.

When he agreed to release 5000 of the Taliban, he may have also agreed to give them arms and equipment to secure their nation after we left. . . we have no idea.



The terms of that agreement were not made public.

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