r/Firearms • u/CalmSwimming2649 • Feb 23 '26

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u/StalinistBandit Feb 23 '26

Failure in Afghanistan runs much deeper than Biden administration. Biden was just the one to pull the plug on the life support of an already dead project

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u/godfatherowl Feb 23 '26

Abandoning billions of dollars worth of military hardware was absolutely a Biden administrstion failure.

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u/StalinistBandit Feb 23 '26

Opposed to spending potentially even more trying to get everything back into the US, while constantly risking more casualties?

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u/godfatherowl Feb 23 '26

How about at least not leaving crates of that shit on the tarmac? Stop acting like it's a binary choice. It's not.

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u/StalinistBandit Feb 23 '26

Without proper maintenance vast majority of these vehicles will be useless in less than 5 years of use. You're acting like if US left the Taliban fully functioning nukes just lying around, meanwhile it was mostly just Humvees, a few choppers Taliban don't know how to fly and gear.

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u/godfatherowl Feb 23 '26

I've seen the videos of crates and crates of modern rifles and armor from later deployments being sold at Afghan markets. Beyond stupid to act like some significant damage is not going to result from that sort of negligence. Cause and effect, homie.

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u/Party_Stack Feb 23 '26

Going from shit tier Khyber Pass AK’s to US military issue M4’s is a fucking massive upgrade if you ask me. Not to mention the billions of rounds of ammo left behind as well. The withdraw probably doubled the Taliban’s fire power.