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Afgans trained to use this equipment couldn't. Most of these people are barely a generation from being uneducated bedowins living in tents and herding goats and camels. Any thing beyond a car and an AK is rocket science to these people.
How long of a battle will it take for them to burn through all that stuf? Since there won't be anymore weapons and money raining down on them they had better used it judiciously.
Afgans trained to use this equipment couldn't. Most of these people are barely a generation from being uneducated bedowins living in tents and herding goats and camels. Any thing beyond a car and an AK is rocket science to these people.
Can’t they just sell them to Russians and Chinese communists?
Afgans trained to use this equipment couldn't. Most of these people are barely a generation from being uneducated bedowins living in tents and herding goats and camels. Any thing beyond a car and an AK is rocket science to these people.
They were trained to use it for twenty years.
Granted... wouldn't expect big things... but they could've put up a fight with it at least...
Except... trumps foolish peace deal with the Taliban... which the Afghan government was completely cut out of... leading to delegitimizing it... and a collapse of confidence...
If you spend twenty years investing in a government; don't ya think it'd be very deeply involved in your exit plan?
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Originally Posted by wesp
Who knows if they can use it or not but they can hand it over to China and Russia for a bit of examination and reverse engineering.
Neither of them care for it. It's all older stuff. Nothing cutting edge. Most of it won't be operational in a matter of months.
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