The “billions of dollars worth of military equipment” we left behind in Afghanistan will be mostly useless to the Taliban for the same reason it was mostly useless to the Afghan army: Afghanistan simply doesn’t have the technical expertise in its armed forces needed to maintain and operate such equipment.
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2 ups, 4y,
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Let’s just hope they don’t sell them then…
And how about the stuff they CAN use, like body armour, night vision goggles or any weapon that was left behind? Let’s hope that they don’t know how to use that either
Nope. That's what he said but it isn't true, for example maybe he could have evacuated civillians BEFORE troops? Or left small amounts in strategic areas to support the Afghan army