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"A new report outlined $7 billion dollars worth of US Military equipment was abandoned in Afghanistan but where is it going? Apparently it's flowing into India and Pakistan."
The leftover equipment also gives the Taliban an iron grip over the area compared to what they could do in the past, when they were not fully mechanized.
One interesting point he makes near the end talking about if the problem of Afghanistan could have been avoided the previous withdrawal plan according to General Mark Milley had 8 conditions the US had to meet, and 7 conditions the Taliban had to meet in order for a withdrawal to occur according to the General the US met all those conditions while the Taliban met only 1 of the 7 conditions (which was the cease fire). In the fall of 2020 Milley submitted an analysis that an accelerated withdrawal "would risk loosing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan and damaging US World Wide credibility and could precipitate a general collapse of the Afghan security forces and the Afghan government resulting in a complete Afghan takeover or general civil war."
Task and Purpose Youtuber ending comment
"On the 14th of April president Biden announced his decision and the US received a change of mission to retrograde all US military forces so they were put in a position where they very quickly had to change the mission and they had to decide to what to leave behind and what to leave for the Afghans and what not to leave behind, and the US is still trying to figure out what lessons are to be learned from the Afghanistan war."
The leftover equipment also gives the Taliban an iron grip over the area compared to what they could do in the past, when they were not fully mechanized.
One interesting point he makes near the end talking about if the problem of Afghanistan could have been avoided the previous withdrawal plan according to General Mark Milley had 8 conditions the US had to meet, and 7 conditions the Taliban had to meet in order for a withdrawal to occur according to the General the US met all those conditions while the Taliban met only 1 of the 7 conditions (which was the cease fire). In the fall of 2020 Milley submitted an analysis that an accelerated withdrawal "would risk loosing the substantial gains made in Afghanistan and damaging US World Wide credibility and could precipitate a general collapse of the Afghan security forces and the Afghan government resulting in a complete Afghan takeover or general civil war."
Task and Purpose Youtuber ending comment
"On the 14th of April president Biden announced his decision and the US received a change of mission to retrograde all US military forces so they were put in a position where they very quickly had to change the mission and they had to decide to what to leave behind and what to leave for the Afghans and what not to leave behind, and the US is still trying to figure out what lessons are to be learned from the Afghanistan war."
