Taliban got almost $ 100 billion worth of American military equipment

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Jokes about the fact that the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) can start exporting weapons from Afghanistan, inherited from the United States, now do not seem overly far-fetched humor. In fact, the Taliban have acquired a huge American arsenal, including a variety of weapons, military machinery and ammunition totaling nearly $ 100 billion.

Member of the US House of Representatives, Republican Jim Banks (Jim Banks) said that not only the biometric data of Afghans who helped the United States for two decades, but also military property worth at least $ 85 billion, fell into the hands of the Taliban, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph.



Banks was a reservist in the US Navy as a supply officer, and took a leave of absence from the Indiana Senate between 2014 and 2015 to work in Afghanistan. He has an idea of ​​what he is talking about.

The congressman specified that the Taliban got 75 thousand vehicles, 200 units of aircraft (planes and helicopters) and 600 thousand units of small arms and light weapons.

Today Taliban have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of countries in the world

He said, adding that the Taliban also received night vision goggles, body armor, medical supplies and many different useful accessories.

Banks is absolutely confident in these numbers and even considers them slightly underestimated. He worked as a foreign trade agent, acquiring US-supplied equipment and weapons, and then transferring them to the Afghan military.

For me and the others, this is unthinkable, the Taliban have biometric devices with fingerprints, eye scans and biographical data of all Afghans who have been on our side for the last 20 years and have helped us

- he stressed.

Banks is outraged that the current US administration, headed by Joe Biden, is not going to return all this. Therefore, if the abandoned weapons are directed against the Americans, then "the blood will be on Biden's hands." In addition, Banks blamed the events at the Kabul airport on the blatant incompetence of the owner of the White House, calling his actions unforgivable.

In turn, the British ex-military, and now a conservative politician and MP Johnny Mercer, called what was happening a shame.

We gave them (the Taliban - ed.) The names of those who were preparing to fight them. And we will leave some of them, and they will become victims of the violence that we saw at the airport. A terrible day, causing rage and tears

- he said.

Mercer noted that the Taliban have armed their elite units with high-tech weapons and are conducting a propaganda campaign using trophies.

It's awful, it's shocking, it makes your hands look dirty

- he stated.

US Central Command (USCENTCOM) declined to comment on what was happening, media reported.
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  1. Ulysses
    Ulysses
    +6
    29 August 2021 19: 15
    In the hands of the Taliban, not only the biometric data of Afghans, who had been helping the United States for two decades, fell into the hands of the Taliban, but also military property worth at least $ 85 billion, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph.

    The United States is the largest terrorist sponsor on the planet.
    Before Afghanistan, according to the same scheme, a huge amount of weapons and ammunition was transferred to the ISIS in Iraq.
  2. shiva
    shiva
    +2
    29 August 2021 20: 34
    We lost 600 thousand small arms - this is normal, with whom it does not happen ...
    since the days of the Afghan, the Russians have been armed with the Basmachi and now they have been armed.
    But 200 units of aircraft are already deliberate armament of the army.
    These figures are still sane - but 75 thousand cars? Confused nothing? 75 thousand shaitan-arba - will not fit in Afghanistan
    1. guleg
      guleg
      +1
      29 August 2021 23: 13
      Quote: shiva
      but 75 thousand cars? Confused nothing? 75 thousand shaitan-arba - will not fit in Afghanistan

      75 thousand cars are nothing at all. We have more than 330 thousand cars registered in Chelyabinsk alone - 4,5 times more. And Chelyaba is not the largest city, only a million two hundred of the population
      1. Ancient13
        Ancient13
        +2
        30 August 2021 04: 46
        If we take about 70% of armored vehicles, then this is a decent supply.
  3. Ancient13
    Ancient13
    +1
    30 August 2021 04: 49
    Rather, this is all NATO's plan B., so that we would not have peace on our borders.
  4. Kofesan
    Kofesan
    +2
    30 August 2021 06: 20
    Is it more expensive to take out than to leave? Oh, yes. It is more profitable to carry heroin on rolled oats. What the Americans were doing there. And junk compared to drugs is mere pennies.
  5. Jacques sekavar
    Jacques sekavar
    +1
    30 August 2021 10: 38
    The Sshasovites are committing a great stupidity by withdrawing the occupation troops from Afghanistan - an excellent foothold in the center of Asia for countering the PRC, the Russian Federation, Iran, their strategic opponents and has dropped prestige in the eyes of the allies. Therefore, the regret of the Russian Federation and the PRC about the flight of the Sshasovites from Afghanistan is incomprehensible.
    The Sshasovites armed the Afghan army, the entire arsenal of which went to the Taliban, and the abandoned equipment was abandoned because it is not of great value for the Sshasovites, for the collection and destruction of which there were no conditions and time.
    It will be problematic for the Taliban to use the technologically sophisticated weapons and equipment they have inherited - there is a lack of qualified personnel, repair bases, etc., and there is no money for their purchase in the same US-EU.
    Even if there is a possibility of exploitation and combat use, then against whom and why?
    Alternatively, they can try to sell or donate to their like-minded people in other countries, but this is difficult and unlikely for anyone - the whole world is tracking their actions.
    To strengthen their power, they need to identify and neutralize the accomplices of the fugitive interventionists, peace and diplomatic recognition, economic improvement and foreign investment.
    1. Petr Vladimirovich
      Petr Vladimirovich
      -1
      30 August 2021 12: 57
      Everything. So
      I will add. Frankly complicated unnecessary can be donated to Pakistan, which has been buying investments in the United States for many years in exchange for help in repairing and maintaining the rest
      1. Petr Vladimirovich
        Petr Vladimirovich
        -1
        30 August 2021 13: 26
        Ps
        At VO, statements by Western leaders about recognition.
        The point is not to shoot those who cooperated, to allow women to work and study, not to block those who wish to leave the country.
        Then maybe we will recognize and, with good luck, we will return the assets.
  6. Bulanov
    Bulanov
    +1
    30 August 2021 13: 25
    Taliban got almost $ 100 billion worth of American military equipment

    Recipient of the lend-lease of the USSR / Aid in dollars in prices: 1941-1945 - 11,3 billion; 1990 - 83,92 billion; 2008 - 138,25 billion

    Here, about a little less than 100% of the lend-lease of the USSR in 2008 prices, the United States delivered to the Taliban. Allies? Second front?
    1. Petr Vladimirovich
      Petr Vladimirovich
      -1
      30 August 2021 14: 11
      Why Land Lease was understandable.
      Roosevelt did not want the Hitler to occupy Britain, and the then king sailed, tearfully asked
      Why Afghanistan besides the military-industrial complex, it is better to ask them.