Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan 

One of the greatest foreign policy disasters the country has ever witnessed! 

Under President Trump the US had about 14,000 troops in the country. As part of a proposed deal, the US would withdraw 5,400 troops from Afghanistan within 20 weeks. However, Khalilzad said final approval still rested with Trump.

Then in Kabul a car bomb, claimed by the Taliban killed 12 people including a US soldier.

A Romanian soldier serving with the Nato-led mission in the country was also killed.

In a series of tweets, Trump said he had been set to meet senior Taliban leaders at Camp David.

However, he cancelled the meeting and called off negotiations after the group admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed a US soldier, the BBC reported.


Then under Joe Biden

On the night of July 1, 2021, the United States military departed from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan “without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left,” the Associated Press reported at the time.

As chaos erupted at Hamid Karzai International Airport following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday, some members of Congress and Afghanistan war experts are asking why the United States didn’t hold on to its secure base of 20 years at Bagram, located about 30 miles north of Kabul.

“No one in their right mind would have closed Bagram Air Base while leaving behind thousands of civilians,” Arkansas GOP senator and Afghanistan war veteran Tom Cotton wrote on Twitter.

$7 billion of military equipment in equipment left behind in Afghanistan, to include Planes, guns, night-vision goggles. Current intelligence assessment was that the Taliban are believed to control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, and up to 40 aircraft potentially including UH-60 Black Hawks, scout attack helicopters, and ScanEagle military drones.

"We have already seen Taliban fighters armed with U.S.-made weapons they seized from the Afghan forces. This poses a significant threat to the United States and our allies," Representative Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, told Reuters in an email.

Between 2002 and 2017, the United States gave the Afghan military an estimated $28 billion in weaponry, including guns, rockets, night-vision goggles and even small drones for intelligence gathering.

But aircraft like the Blackhawk helicopters have been the most visible sign of U.S. military assistance, and were supposed to be the Afghan military' biggest advantage over the Taliban.

Between 2003 and 2016 the United States provided Afghan forces with 208 aircraft, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Since 2003 the United States has provided Afghan forces with at least 600,000 infantry weapons including M16 assault rifles, 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and 16,000 night-vision goggle devices.

"The ability to operate at night is a real game-changer," one congressional aide told Reuters.

Votel and others said smalls arms seized by the insurgents such as machine guns, mortars, as well as artillery pieces including howitzers, could give the Taliban an advantage against any resistance that could surface in historic anti-Taliban strongholds such as the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul.

Andrew Small, a Chinese foreign policy expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said the Taliban was likely to grant Beijing access to any U.S. weapons they may now have control over.

One of the greatest foreign policy disasters the country has ever witnessed! 

Biden botched the whole operation from beginning to end, leaving America’s enemies emboldened by his incompetence.

While more current Biden blunders are dominating the news, the public is still demanding answers about the tragedy in Afghanistan.

And a leading Republican is exposing Biden’s incompetence in a new report.

Idaho Senator Jim Risch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, dropped a scathing 148-page report detailing Biden’s failures.

The report blasts the regime for its disastrous planning and for the damage done to America on the world stage.

“While there is substantial disagreement about the policy to leave Afghanistan, Americans share outrage over how the United States withdrew, and what that failure has done to America’s standing in the world,” Senator Risch said.

Risch’s report argues that Biden “ignored numerous intelligence reports about the potential for a speedy Taliban takeover of Kabul, decided to abandon Bagram Air Base, disregarded dissent cables from the State Department (State), failed to plan an evacuation until it was too late, and in the process, abandoned tens of thousands of Afghan partners.”

According to the report, Biden ignored intelligence on the ground that the situation was collapsing as the withdrawal began.

Biden was so unprepared that the National Security Council didn’t convene to discuss the withdrawal until the day Kabul fell on August 14, 2021.

With the fall of the Afghan government likely, there was no planning to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies.

The report found that “there is no record provided that the DC met any time before August 14 to begin discussions on safe and orderly relocations out of Afghanistan.”

The most terrifying news contained in the report is that Bagram Air Force Base, home to a major American prison, was abandoned and senior members of Al Qaeda were freed.

This report confirms an earlier bombshell from Axios where leaked documents showed the regime scrambling to figure out what to do as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.

The aircraft abandoned in Kabul include:

In June, the Afghan armed forces were using:

Establishing the cost of individual items of equipment is not straightforward - but the unit cost of an A-29 has been quoted as more than $10m (£7.3m).

A29 light attack plane Left Behind 

According to Gen McKenzie, 70 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) were also abandoned, after being disabled.

The cost of a single MRAP has been quoted as $500,000-$1m.

Also left behind in Kabul were:

Elsewhere in the country, however, Afghan troops fled making little effort to destroy or disable equipment.

Satellite images suggest some aircraft were flown out of the country to Uzbekistan, in the days before the collapse of the Afghan government.


And experts point out some aircraft may be of very limited use to the Taliban without trained pilots, maintenance and access to spare parts.


But, although is impossible to establish a specific number, most of the 167 aircraft, including 33 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, under the control of the Afghan armed forces at the end of June, are now thought to be in Taliban hands.


And the Taliban are clearly already using other US equipment.

Taliban special-forces members have been pictured in Kabul with M4 rifles.

And the US also provided more than 2,500 Humvees, from December 2017 to April 2020, according to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.


Specific costs may vary - but the unit price has been quoted as more than $250,000.


Other equipment experts say could be of huge tactical value to the Taliban include night-vision goggles,16,000 of which were provided to Afghan troops between 2003 and 2021.


Way to go KING BIDEN!


Video: Taliban now has nearly $7.1 billion worth of US artillery, assault weapons, and choppers

A total of $7.1 billion worth of weapons and military vehicles the U.S. donated to the now-defunct Afghan government was left behind when the Taliban seized control of the country in the summer of 2021.

In an inspector general report filed one year after the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, Pentagon Inspector General Sean O’Donnell assessed that $7.12 billion of U.S.-donated weaponry was in the Afghan government’s arsenal when the Taliban took over. According to the report, the Taliban has since claimed much of that abandoned arsenal.

According to the report, the U.S. gave the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces $18.6 billion in equipment between 2005 and 2021. Approximately $7.12 billion was still in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal, including aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and more.

Among the abandoned arsenal was $923 million worth of aircraft, including helicopters and planes. The arsenal also contained $4.12 billion in ground vehicles, such as Humvees, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (M-RAP) vehicles and other tactical vehicles.

The arsenal also included $511.8 million worth of rifles, pistols, machineguns, rocket propelled grenade launchers and howitzers.

While the aircraft may be difficult for the Taliban to use, the ground vehicles and small arms could be easily adopted into the Taliban’s military. Taliban forces put some of this firepower on display in military parades marking the one-year anniversary of the final U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The abandoned arsenal also contained night vision goggles, body armor, communications equipment, explosive ordnance detection and disposal equipment and surveillance equipment. 

The inspector general report also looked into the presence of designated terrorist organizations in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believes there Afghanistan Islamic State affiliate known as ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) probably has at least 2,000 members in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) likely has about 200 members in the country. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (commonly referred to as the Pakistani Taliban) likely has about 4,000 members operating in Afghanistan.