I SEEN SOMETHIN' ON FACEBOOK!!! IT MUST BE TRUE!!!
Snopes Says False
I guess the video of the Black Hawk helicopter with the body hung by a rope around its neck and the video of taliban fighters dressed in US fatigues and night vision attached to their helmets, shooting U.S. issued M18 guns in the air is all just bs. I'm sure Snopes is always correct and those grainy videos are all fictional?
"We don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban," Jake Sullivan, the White House national security advisor, said just a
few days after the fall of the Afghan capital.
Ok, so according to Snoops that you linked, we didn't lose all $80,000,000,000 of equipment, only $10,000,000,000. That makes me so much better about things! Thanks Willy.
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It's true that over a span of 20 years, the U.S. spent more than $80 billion to train and equip military forces in Afghanistan. However, this number does not reflect the value of the equipment that was left behind after America's withdrawal from the area. Billions of dollars worth of equipment was removed or demilitarized by the U.S. military before leaving Afghanistan. An exact accounting of the military equipment currently in the Taliban's hands is not available, though one expert estimated that the total value was closer to $10 billion.
"But Trump was gonna do it firrrrrrst!
