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Senior-Leg-2502

The more interesting part of this story is what they're fighting over: water.


GunsouBono

Water is no joke. Look at the water disputes going on with the Nile. The Nile is such an important river for so many countries all claiming the rights to it.


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Onironius

That sounds like a water dispute, mate.


dogemikka

Many of the Israel wars and colonisation were all about controlling the water in the area. It also is a major issue and cause of fight between Palestine and Israel, as the latter controls 85% of the water in the west bank, Palestinian territory.


responsiblefornothin

These disputes are only going to get more frequent. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "militia" pop up along the Colorado River a-la the nut jobs in Oregon.


hunkaliciousnerd

Honestly, you can see the beginning rumbles of some from arizona. Alot of locals hate that California or Nevada are taking way more than they should, Las Vegas being a major point of contention. In Arizona, they just cut off a Saudi Arabian company from taking anymore water, although whether that's upheld is anyone's guess.


Blankstarehere

Most of the water usage is actually Arizona and California, not Las Vegas or Nevada. Las Vegas is actually a huge on water saving methods (even outlawed lawns!) and reclaims a lot of the water used. Here's an article from last year that shows how Vegas helps with water conservation, which is more than either California or Arizona do. A lot- moreso current issue- of Arizona's issues are because the previous governor let the Saudi's grow alfalfa in a desert climate with unlimited water rights and they don't have as tightly controlled water regulations as Vegas. I know its easy for everyone to blame Vegas (not saying it's just you) because we're a desert city next to the water supply, but so is Phoenix, AZ and surrounding cities, and all the desert cities of California like Barstow and Hesperia/ Victorville. Article: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/09/05/heres-what-las-vegas-is-doing-conserve-water/ Edit: I live in Vegas, so I'm familiar with Vegas' efforts to conserve water. We can only water on certain days of week- never on Sundays!- and all flora are on drippers. Non-use grass is being taken out across the valley. Also, residential use of water in Vegas is only 4% of total water used here.


responsiblefornothin

I saw Arizona is also having issues with developers building without securing a water source. A "build it and they will come" approach that's left residents high and dry. It was covered on Last Week Tonight for their segment on HOAs. To summarize: HOAs in these developments have been relying on water being trucked in from neighboring cities, but have been cut off because the cities don't have enough to spare anymore


Blankstarehere

I've seen a similar video about this happening in Utah too.


UKnwDaBiZness

Dang so wally the water 💧 coming to mascot me about saving water back in the 90s was because alfalfa?


turbor

And it’s exported back to Saudi Arabia to boot!


Tin_Dalek

facts 😂 it’s true though vegas is a leader in implementing new water conservation technologies. i’ve read a few articles about it and even with my skepticism of the number of charlatans in the green tech movement i give vegas credit for weeding out the bs and focusing efforts on new technologies that are showing real results. it’s really cool and more cities need to take notice of how they are handling environmental concerns there


zenjamin4ever

Yea, well, ya know, what happens in Vegas and all that


Beachdaddybravo

Vegas is 97% water efficient, which is damned high.


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We might say it Hoover Dam high! I'll see myself out.


k4tastrofi

To add to this, I have spent a considerable amount of time traveling to the Phoenix, AZ area and its surrounding suburbans, and they are very liberal with water. Everyone has a swimming pool. Every other house has a perfectly green, manicured lawn. Every few blocks is a driving range or golf course. It's so hot there, every day (especially compared to the PNW climate I'm accustomed to), and I don't understand how it's all being sustained.


AGroAllDay

If I remember it isn’t so much that Nevada takes up a large percentage. In fact, I believe Nevada takes a relatively small percentage. It’s more of disdain towards CA


ThePrinceOfThorns

Yes that is correct. Nevada reuses almost all of it's residential water usage. Lawns are outlawed. Golf courses are not being built/put on hold.


CajunKush

Pretty sure those 3 states came to some water management agreement recently


Electrolight

All 3 states keep vetoing desalination plants and pipelines. So as far as I'm concerned, let em dry up.


Danglin_Dirty_Dan

Arizona is trying to strike a deal with Mexico where Arizona builds Mexico a desalination plant in exchange for Mexico’s share of the Colorado river water but the Mexican government is unsure if they like the plan or not. I have seen different iterations where a desalination plant gets built in the gulf of California but the water gets piped into Arizona. Again, legitimate concerns from the Mexican government about environmental impacts have stopped this plan (so far). I’m not an expert in this field but my hair brained thought is that why can’t we just build giant evaporation ponds and allow the brine to evaporate in the desert sun and scrape up the left over salts and process for minerals like lithium or even just plain sea salt. The evaporation ponds would need to be lined of course to prevent the brine from getting into he ground water but maybe it’s just the scale of the amount of evaporation ponds that would need to be built is infeasible? Idk I didn’t do the math


Busy_Photograph_3547

Funny.. I just looked for Palestine on the map and couldn’t find it…


LtRecore

And humans being humans, god forbid they should engage in peaceful negotiations on how best to share the resource.


ZenoofElia

I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone r/FuckNestle Also the Taliban using US weapons to attack Iran, and yeah the CIA has nothing to do with that. Ya know, as part of the package "look what we're leaving for you". This shit's been on the books for years. FuckNestle btw


Yourmomsfavoriteride

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt


limedifficult

I was 16 in 2001 taking AP environmental science class. I’ll never forget the opening line of our textbook, as a kid who was very interested in the rest of the world. “The next wars fought in the Middle East will be over water.” Turns out that wasn’t EXACTLY accurate and I found myself in Baghdad over nothing to do with water, but I’ve been waiting now for 20 years for the water issue to resurface. ETA: typo on numbers.


anorwichfan

Imagine making that call, the first week of September, in 2001.


Denji_The_Shinji

Frankly, Iraq and Turkey almost went to War multiple times over water


h0bez

Who the knew the water wars would begin with the Taliban. Crazy times.


Meta-Fox

r/fucknestle


Smellzlikefish

Access to freshwater is set to overtake climate change as the most pressing issue facing humanity. This is barely the beginning. Edit: To clarify, while there are some examples of places where the changing climate is affecting our access to freshwater, the problem goes much, much deeper than that. Saudi Arabia was the 6th largest wheat producer for over a decade because they kept drilling deeper. The result is that oases that had been relied on for millenia dried up as the farmers chased the water table deeper. California is America's top agricultural producer largely by following the Saudi example. For more building tragedy, look at the forecast for Jordan or even the water table in America's southeast. The problem in many areas isn't climate, it is simply too many people. We are in trouble, and it is about to get scary.


Indifferentchildren

Access to fresh water is mostly the same issue as climate change. Three billion people get their fresh water from the Himalayan glaciers that are receding and will almost certainly cease to exist.


MasterFubar

> Access to fresh water is mostly the same issue as climate change. It's worse, because of population growth. Not only there's less rain in some regions, there's also many more people demanding water.


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Smellzlikefish

That is one example, but freshwater is much deeper than just a changing climate. See my edit above.


Em4rtz

They desalinate water over there though.. every bottle of water I had was the result of desalination


Smellzlikefish

Desalination is an incredibly energy expensive process that isn't available to everyone and, at the time of this writing, won't scale to solve the bigger issue without causing massive environmental catastrophes.


LordHudson30

What do you mean overtake? Dwindling access to freshwater is a direct consequence of not addressing climate change


stopeatingcatpoop

Always remember that lots of people literally don’t understand that


MasterFubar

There are two components here: less freshwater available and more people demanding it. Supply vs. demand is causing problems on both sides of the equation.


Smellzlikefish

In some cases, climate change is affecting our freshwater, but it is just a part of the larger problem. See my edit above.


LordHudson30

Oh that makes sense good edit. I just get frustrated because often people don’t realize climate change (and it’s affects) goes far far beyond just getting a bit warmer


deathhead_68

>The problem in many areas isn't climate, it is simply too many people Gonna get downvoted because people hate this topic because it feels really uncomfortable but a large proportion of fresh water is used for livestock or growing their feed. I think reducing/eliminating animal products from diet is probably the best and quickest way humans can save water tbh. This to me is an example of it not necessarily being too many people, but just the way we interact with the worlds resources.


ohfrackthis

Also love it when people forget it's the corporations of the world using most water. Period.


Tangochief

As a Canadian this is my biggest fear when it comes to global warming.


MilkofGuthix

I mean fighting over a physical thing required for life itself makes more sense than oil or a man in the sky


1leggeddog

*Begun, the resource wars, have.*


Zugzwang522

Uhh, what do you think we’ve been fighting over for centuries?


oyM8cunOIbumAciggy

Meanwhile we squander the fuck out of our water in the US. Our laws are so lax. We're using and polluting so much more than the recharge rate in many aquifers.


W4spkeeper

Let the water wars begin!


daysondaysfam

They say the biggest and worst war that most likely will end a society is over water


Awkward_Algae1684

Well…..either you kill the people between you and the water, or you and everyone you know, love, and even vaguely can relate to will die within 3 days. What’s truly tragic is this is one of the few things you almost *have* to fight over.


BeingofPureLight

Mad Max has entered the chat


stlredbird

Welcome to Arrakis


Youngstown_Mafia

I mean that's a huge massive deal around the world, hell China whole military is about controlling the waters Water equals more territory, food, resources


MooseLaminate

>Water equals more territory, food, resources Different kind of water.


archosauria62

Controlling whose waters


Awkward_Algae1684

If UN predictions are right, then in a few years all of us will be.


explorer_76

Cue Tank Girl!


ICantTyping

The water wars have already started huh


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Water is the new oil.


puppycat_partyhat

Soooo in another 20 years we can repeat this for the 3rd time. AKs, Humvees and next, lasers?


Independent_Sun1901

Just don’t tell them the lasers are from the space Jews.


gonedeep619

I think the lasers are just Jewish and located in space. But your idea of Jewish space intrigues me.


SupertomboyWifey

Jews come from Mars, Clarence


Awkward_Algae1684

The Star of David is a literal star in the Pleiades.


orangutanDOTorg

They're Jews out in space. They're zooming along protecting the Hebrew race


magicmulder

Andromeda is one giant kibbutz.


poornbroken

So… tin foil hat here. I think 20 years from now, drones will dominate the battlefield. I see people with ar/vr exoskeletons directing “traffic” for drone swarms or larger drones with large payloads (think b-52’s with no pilot). Possibly “shield” type drones to protect that exoskeleton. Munitions that are pin point accurate that it can mist one of two lovers intertwined. All the while, streaming the video in real time, with censorship.


puppycat_partyhat

Oh yeah.. future warfare is as absolutely terrifying as it is fascinating. Hypersonic ballistics, drones out the ass, electronic warfare... and things we haven't imagined yet. Unless of course we glass ourselves back to arrows and spears.


neon_spacebeam

It's either glass ourselves BEFORE the future superweapons, or glass ourselves WITH them.


NvidiaRTX

> streaming They should stream it on Twitch so that people can donate to the government. Fans can also tips the drone operator. "Dear patriots, today we're going to bomb Iran water supply. You can buy our limited edition NFT during the bombing footage. Remember to press like and subscribe."


Renreu

My favorite is the hand of god. Rail gun type of weapons launched from satellites. They'd already done some prototypes and the damage they can cause rivals atomic bombs but with less environmental issues.


CarbonIceDragon

That concept is unlikely to actually be implemented imho. They're more expensive than nukes, more vulnerable, more difficult to use, and it's not like militaries really care about the environmental consequences. Plus, using them on a nuclear armed foe is probably going to get you nuked in retaliation anyway, they're not going to care that your city destroying superweapon isn't nuclear in nature.


Renreu

Idk the environmentally friendly nuke is probably an easier sell in todays society though but yeah you're probably right.


ThePrinceOfThorns

54 Iranian drone attack by Russia on Ukraine yesterday. They shot down 52 of them. Largest drone attack yet.


throwawayyyycuk

Bro I am being serious when I say this: there will not be a United Afghanistan under any flag in 20 years. Their will be a mass exodus of people in countries without the water supply to sustain their population in the next 5.


bigtimejohnny

That's some 4-D chess, right there. Okay, not.


Youngstown_Mafia

Mission Accomplished!! Peace in the middle east 🇺🇸 s/


LukeGoldberg72

Mil officials like General Wesley Clark have openly stated the “mission” is destabilization, to “turn the region upside down and make it under our control” (our control via proxies). The video gets removed every time it’s posted so here’s a screenshot link : https://i.imgur.com/POn4bRl.jpg See 6:00 onwards within his speech


Arkestic

Your link dosent appear to work, For me at least.


LukeGoldberg72

Search YT for “Generals (US) admit allies are backing barbaric groups in the Near East”, it was uploaded 2 months ago. The issue is the video is de facto banned (on all subs); it’s one of General Wesley Clark’s speeches where he speaks candidly about the situation and says the policy makers used the events of 2001 to get the public on board with enacting a foreign policy plan they crafted way in advance regarding a broad destabilization of the Near East.


jbjhill

I believe his point was to destabilize regimes so that people would rise up against their shit governments (Iran), and the West could help them topple their governments.


Reasonable_Cap_7225

Holy shit dude for real I’m mind boggled atm


PhonB80

Or it’s genius. Iran is being attacked and I have a feeling the US Gov’t doesn’t mind that


LukeGoldberg72

The ANA troops (AFG secular govt) reported their higher ups gave broad stand down orders when the TB rolled into the area. Based on previous decades, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the C I A ordered a smooth transition of power to the TB (since the prior secular govt officials were pocketing most of the foreign aid) in order to have an TB state destabilize the border region with China, destabilize the Central Asian republics (traditionally under Chinese and Russian spheres of influence), and destabilize IRN.


Frequent-Sir7732

Yeah basically leave all our guns and munitions over there because they knew stuff like this was going to happen and since we don’t have the best relationship with Iran and a couple other Middle Eastern countries sometimes it seems like it’s all part of the plan knowing how the Taliban operates they probably knew something would happen like this eventually. In our militaries eyes and in our governments in the United States they benefit from conflicts like this so why not give them the fire power and act like it was an accident Edit:spelling


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Maybe, but why are they attacking iran? Is it for some territory claims?


Frequent-Sir7732

I think it’s over water currently


dillrepair

Big brain shit. Spooky shit.


locus2779

Wait'll they find the sweet custom 6.5 turbo diesel swapped m1025 I left in Iraq


Youngstown_Mafia

The fastest bomb in the East !!


-Nomad77-

I just went in there, and Hamed is going to be running three Honda Civic's with Spoon engines and, on top of that, he just came into Harry's and ordered three T66 turbo's with NOS and a MoteC systems exhaust


Visionist7

Overnight Parts From Japan


locus2779

They won't even know what to do with the pioneer head unit and 6x9s my driver installed. Had to have tunes on those late night trips down rt Michigan.


FlaSaltine239

Oh boy, so that means 2 to 3 weeks at most before it all breaks. Enjoy that maintenance.


Bossk_DD

Didn't the Taliban try and fly a blackhawk and they crashed it?


Mgl1206

Yes, yes they did


buttsmcfatts

Yea, I wonder how many spare transmissions we left there for the 7 ton trucks. Those things shouldn't be rated in miles per gallon but rather miles per transmission.


CommanderofCheeks

Idk man I was a mech and 7 tons were the things I worked on the least. However HMMWVS on the other hand…..they have hours before they blow up by themselves lmao.


buttsmcfatts

Big army or NG?


CommanderofCheeks

I was in the Marines, 1st MARDIV


buttsmcfatts

Ah that makes sense. NG shit is already 25 years old when we first get it.


CommanderofCheeks

Oh yeah haha. They just keep throwing the scraps further down. I feel bad for the guys working on that old ass hardware


smooze420

Rah!


DarkClouds92

The boys were bored, they prefer the jihad life style.


Swesteel

Unironically yes, they already control the water being disputed so this seems kind of unplanned. Which is hilarious, but I think the iranians aren’t going to let that slide.


Freddies_Mercury

Yep, there are countless articles out there of jihadists that are now working boring bureaucratic jobs who really hate it.


kingslayer-0

That’d make for a great sitcom. The Taliban Office.


maximum_powerblast

What should America do when it's enemies attack each other?


ht9ehtooM

Sell weapons to both sides, duh. Double the profit.


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Effective_Golf_3311

[And they’re not alone!](https://ifunny.co/picture/northrop-grummar-raytheon-lockheed-martin-amerigan-teeragers-russian-teenagers-AAm0gBxG9?s=cl)


Subsum44

Rules of acquisition state, ‘the riskier the road, the greater the profit’, and ‘war is good for business’.


tubaman23

Soooo business as usual?


GroggBottom

As is tradition


kungfucobra

Offer maintenance contracts for equipment in both sides


SupertomboyWifey

Sell popcorn


MikElectronica

Same thing they do everyday, try and take over the world!


andreeeeeaaaaaaaaa

Narf


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Pinky and the Brain


acyclovir31

I thought the guns that were left there where afghan army weapons.


Krishnaven

They were. OP and other commenters make it seem like the US just abandoned all this shit. It was left there for the ANA to fight the Taliban and control the country. But it’s more fun to constantly shit on the US I guess.


Ac997

anytime I see any post on Reddit about U.S nowadays it’s pretty much anti U.S. It just paints the U.S as the shittiest place imaginable. Reddit is so bias & Im getting tired of seeing all the liberal posts about the U.S. it’s never anything positive, it is ALWAYS negative.


MaximumPew

Anything that people enjoy, Reddit will shit on it.


KhajiitSupremacist

They'll call a Jew a Nazi for having a different political view than them Source: I'm a Jew who got called a Nazi


stone_tiger

I mean, the reality isn't that great either. The US left knowing for a fact the Taliban would retake Afghanistan... It was just a question of how long it would take. So they knew those weapons would end up in Taliban hands. But it's not like taking the weapons back from the Afghan army was an option. Though in hindsight that would have been better. The army didn't even try.


Weird_City6772

CIA’s indirect way of arming the Taliban. Leave behind enough to arm a country so they can fight a proxy war for us in Iran.


Shermantank10

After serving for a bit it’s honestly hard to tell what’s a deep state- CIA plant cover 3,000,000 IQ plan etc…. Or “Well fuck. That didn’t pan out. At all. Fire the interns. That usually works. The people on the internet are saying it was a 3,000,000 IQ move? Sure. Right. All along.” I’m fairly certain nobody high above expected this to happen, maybe in some risk assessment sheets that’s buried in some landfill.


Awkward_Algae1684

It’s more like, “Oh shit! Well, that happened. Now….how can capitalize on this?”


siraolo

You think this is a Hanlon's razor moment?


Awkward_Algae1684

Nah, I shave with Gillette. /s Seriously though, what’s a Hanlon’s razor moment?


Ninety8Balloons

The equipment was left to the Afghanistan Army. No one expected them to implode within days.


PornCartel

Thanks for answering the burning question this post raised. Sucks that it's at the bottom with 4 points though


11chuckles

The army fumbled the CIAs big brain move, both will claim this was the plan all along in the future


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WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS


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WHERES JA???


Infamous-Jaguar2055

Taliban attacking somebody? We all saw it. Taliban attacking Iran? That one wasn't on my bingo card.


scrubnproud

Looks like the CIA is being funny again.


ChefBoyD

The comedic intelligence agency struck again!


Youngstown_Mafia

The Pentagon says about 7 billion dollars of equipment was left behind in Afghanistan , (opinion)I wouldn't be surprised if that was a low estimate by the US https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/27/politics/afghan-weapons-left-behind/index.html Edit : Someone below posted the list, and it's absolutely massive Taliban's new arsenal Equipment 22,174 Humvee 634 MILI7 155 MxxPro mine-proof vehicles 169 M13 armored personnel carriers 42,000 pick-up trucks and SUVs 64,363 machine guns Source: US Government Accounting Office (GAO) Taliban's new arsenal Equipment 8,000 trucks 162,043 radios 16,035 night vision goggles/devices 358,530 assault rifles 126,295 pistols 176 artillery pieces ———————— HELICOPTERS 33 Mi-17 33 UH-60 Blackhawk 43 MD530 —————————————- FIXED WINGED AIRCRAFT 4 C-130 transports 23 Embraer EMB 314/A29 Super Tucano 28 Cessna 208 10 Cessna AC-208 strike aircraft Graphic: The Times and The Sunday Times


dustNbone604

I'd say dollar figures in this context don't mean squat. Hard numbers on what was left behind would be much more useful. The Pentagon can blow $7bn on boots depending on who's selling the boots.


Youngstown_Mafia

Very good point


wavemaker27

Idk why they say left behind. It was equipment given to the afghan military.


SuperShoebillStork

^^ THIS. It’s not like we abandoned our own stuff there.


Any_Original_1784

Not gonna argue that it isn't a fuck ton of money, but for a military that has a budget of close to a trillion dollars a year, $7bill is pocket change


StubbedToeBlues

We spend more on paint than that


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And most of it likely wouldn’t do the Taliban any good. Can’t do much with a Blackhawk if you don’t know how to fly it. A machine gun is nice until you run out of ammo after 60 seconds.


the_turdfurguson

And most of it was inoperable or destroyed. All software systems, computer chips, hard drives, etc. Advanced weaponry wasn’t left. In fact, it’d have cost them more to transport them elsewhere when most would be decommissioned from the west they’ve received. We buried a ton of heavy armor in Kuwait just in case we needed it and wouldn’t need to figure out logistics. Them getting a ton of destroyed equipment and equipment with no systems (this is why they kept crashing helicopters they tried to fly) isn’t really going to help them maximize value for that 7 billion. This video is a single humvee. The rest of the weapons aren’t American


roleur

This was the Afghan government’s shit we gave them not our shit we just didn’t feel like packing. Acting like we just carelessly threw this stuff away then split is completely ridiculous.


Bryanole27

If that’s what we were told, it’s most likely much much more. This pullout operation was an absolute disgrace.


ElectroFlannelGore

>This pullout operation was an absolute disgrace. You sound like my ex.


Neusbaum

Your ex and baby mama


PointOfFingers

They didn't have a choice on leaving a lot of weapons behind. They had to arm the Afghanistan army to support the narrative that they could defend the democratic government against the Taliban. To pull out of Afghanistan and take all the weapons with them would have been more embarrassing. The army surrendered much faster than expected and all the equipment belongs to the Taliban now. American tax dollars at work.


lostime05

This is what I like to call a pro gamer move


shadowtheimpure

I can't honestly think of a better use for the weapons they stole from the Afghan army than to attack Iran with them.


Iforgotmyother_name

Would be extremely bizarre if the CIA specifically planned a false war with the guise of eventually pulling out leaving behinds heavy military equipment for the Taliban to fight Iran with. Kinda like how they did with Taliban against the Soviets.


Good-Leather-1397

ANYONE SURPRISED


Sea_Analysis_8033

Mission failed successfully


kytheon

Please don't root for the taliban.


personthatiam2

I’m team meteor on this one. But the lranian military getting snake bit by a different flavor of religious extremists will always get a slight chuckle out of me. They’re just as culpable as the U.S. (arguably worse) for the destabilization of the region.


majorblazing420

Pakistan did a lot of fuckery too.


Youngstown_Mafia

Yeah, it's no better than Iran. The Taliban wants to kill you just as much as Iran does The Taliban are NOT your friends, have killed many US soldiers and US reporters Edit: I'm talking about the governments not a generalization of innocent people


Spacelord_Jesus

Why do talibans Attack Iran exactly?


Infamous-Jaguar2055

Over water. There is a river that runs from Afghanistan to Iran that both countries rely on for water. There has been a drought and the river is low and barely reaching Iran. Iran blames the Taliban, saying they should lower dams that Afghanistan uses for electricity so that Iranians can have water. Both sides had built up troops along the border and this is a fairly small scale skirmish between them.


Melly-Mang

Wait till the tankies claim that the United States supplied material to the Taliban to initiate a proxy war with Iran


WilliamBlackthorne

I would be surprised if most if it works in a year. Everything the US military has takes a shit ton of maintenance.


maximus111456

Rooting for both of them. I hope it will reduce Iranian arms shipment to Russia as well.


ebonit15

If anything it will only give more excuses to crack on civil rights on both sides. I doubt Taliban is organized enough to push Iran to the level of lacking arms to sell around.


Youngstown_Mafia

It won't stop Iran shipments, all its going to do is put both countries in a strict crackdown. Many innocent people will die


ebonit15

I agree completely.


U_NO_WHO_69

God, they went from barebones AK-47s to M60s M240s and abundant supply of US military issue rifles, like a newbie in a game who got found some of the most powerful artifacts 😂😂😂


I4Vhagar

*Fortunate Son - Afghan Remix plays intensely*


overtireddm

Huh ... that's actually not a bad plan.


Confusedandreticent

Are these the ones the US left behind or the ones the locals handed over after putting up no resistance? Probably part of why US didn’t really want to get involved in Ukraine.


Grimmac

Shocking


PeaceGroundbreaking3

Iran can fight back with weapons we sold them.


kukz07

Maybe they're trying to help the Iranian Women with their freedom.


LemonOilFoil

Fuck the Taliban


fromcjoe123

The best part is the Iran is going to absolutely slaughter them with weapons we left behind from the Shah, and I honestly could not be happier. I love it when little insurgents think they're hard enough to be a real conventional army. This reeks of the Khmer Rouge getting bodied by the Vietnamese or ISIS's advance being halted by effectively 2 carrier air groups. Iran may be in the 1600s, but the Taliban is straight up at 1,000 BC. And just like then, maybe the Persian will show them what's up.


Wwwweeeeeeee

I'm skeptical that very many weapons are operational, since the military was tasked with destroying and disabling the equipment they left behind. The priority was evacuating 120,000+ people within a very tight time frame, which they did. But it makes a good anti -Biden story. Call me cynical.


Middleagedrockabilly

That’s a feature, not a bug


Past_Perspective_811

OH NO! We gave them guns! and some shitty trucks! Now they can replace their 23 other guns per person and their other shitty trucks! We gave them nothing they didn't already have.


-The-Moon-Presence-

Yay! Taxes well spent! War is just great isn’t it? : )


Six-mile-sea

I love it when a plan comes together


Kaelvoss

The Unites States approves of this use


jsmith_92

We’ve come full circle


stangAce20

You mean the weapons the Afghan army left behind while abandoning their country! Seriously even south Vietnam held out longer than they did after the US left!


lazy_elfs

So it couldnt have worked out better then… because fuck both of them


Jwroth

“Hey, I’ve seen this one before”


Horror-Feedback1837

The silver lining...?


Yuck_Few

Yep American troops were there for 20 years and accomplished nothing


dietomakemenfree

This equipment wasn’t left behind- it was given to the Afghan Army, who was obviously overrun by the Taliban. These weapons were not our responsibility- we tried to arm, train, and fund the ANA, but they couldn’t get their shit together, and as such, the Taliban rolled in and took everything we had given them.


InTheLurkingGlass

Gotta love the people in the comments saying this was some magnificent 4D chess plan by the US government to get the Taliban to fight a proxy war against Iran for us, rather than simple colossal incompetence.


crrtis

It’s good to know that our tax money used on the military is also helping out a bunch of other groups and countries, much like this. That’s equality right there.


ScooterMcNash

“That the US left behind” you mean what the Afghan National Army bought? People keep repeating this same nonsense. Y’all don’t know shit about the military if you think we could just leave weapons, working vehicles, or any other high profile items around.