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related; dont overlook that all that gear the taliban just lucked into will be reduced to rust inside of 6 months without proper maintenance and they dont have the training or parts or budget to get them.

they would do well to weld plows onto anything that runs and convert every single flat surface in the country into either a saffron plot or a grain farm.
the humvee is a bad-ass vehicle. there will be plenty of them patrolling the streets of Kabul for years to come lest we forget we were ever there too soon. The American M-16 is nothing compared to the Kalishnakov ak47. The American machine gun will last there a long time too. These are pretty sweet but not sure how it compares to Russians. I know little about the other stuff on the list. Just one more indignity for us in facing the national shame that was this war.
watching bidens speech just now. I accept his explanation for the end result. He only mentioned Trump's role in this in the negative when I think he had an opportunity and a duty to praise Trump for what he did to get us near the end. I didn't like it that he referred to the numbers of people they got out as being such a positive thing when the number was far from 100%. After Viet Nam there were POW's still left behind. It's why we have the black flag with pow/mia to this day I believe. There are so many people to share in the blame for all of this. I could've spoken up more or organized or offered more support and I failed too. Its a national failure on all of us. Its definitely on Biden its just not only on Biden.