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yo THESE FOOLS REALLY WON!!!
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yo THESE FOOLS REALLY WON!!!
SAD!
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Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Props to em.
They don't have any uniforms in any of the footage I've seen so far. All I've seen is the video below where they are wearing stuff they raided after we left. The rifles, helmets, NVGs, kits, and vests are all ours. The actual camouflage uniforms they are wearing are not ours. Our military retired these camouflage BDUs a long time ago. It's easy to think it's our uniforms because it blends right into the gear, but it's dusty looking stuff they were already wearing. Video below for reference, and if they had our informs, they'd look more like this. If they got any of our uniforms then I haven't seen any footage yet. But all of the actual gear they're carrying in the Twitter video below this photo is gear of ours that they captured.
The Uniforms they got on were given to the Afghan Army by the US.
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Like that Boondocks clip alludes to, I've heard that Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter's on-screen personalities are a work. Although they are both conservatives, they're not nearly as far right as they're on-screen personalities lead you to believe. They're both center-right IRL
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Chinese official's criticism hints at concern about all the US weapons the Taliban just captured
South China Morning Post
6-8 minutes
China has called for increased vigilance against illicit arms transfers and — in an apparent reference to the US — urged all parties to a global arms trade treaty to stop selling weapons to "non-state actors."
"We support the international community to take all necessary measures to regulate the international arms trade and to combat the illicit transfer of conventional arms," Li Song, China's ambassador for disarmament affairs, told the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference in Geneva, marking China's first participation as a formal party to the pact.
Li did not name any specific incident, but the timing of the meeting could provide clues. Afghanistan is currently experiencing a turbulent power reshuffle, with the Taliban seizing control of the country following the complete withdrawal of US and Nato troops.
The insurgent group has reportedly taken possession of a considerable amount of American weapons and equipment from Afghan government forces, sparking worries that these may end up falling into the hands of terrorist groups with close ties to the Taliban, such as al-Qaeda.
Beijing has long feared that post-US turmoil would turn Afghanistan into a hub of terrorism. It has voiced worries that the upheaval would spill over and affect Beijing's heavy investments in Central Asia as well as its counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang, the far-western Chinese region bordering war-torn Afghanistan.
Members of ISIS-K and their weapons as they surrender to the government in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, November 17, 2019.
Wali Sabawoon/Getty Images
Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former head of the kingdom's intelligence services, blamed the US for its mismanagement.
"I don't know which word to use, whether incompetence, carelessness, bad management — it was all a combination of those things," he was quoted by CNBC as saying on Saturday.
The Biden administration has lately scrubbed online detailed reports of military equipment and training provided by the US to Afghan government forces, ostensibly to protect Afghan allies from Taliban retribution.
However, some policy commentators have pointed out that those reports did not identify recipient information and some other official reports that do include such information are still publicly available.
"Geopolitical tensions are escalating, regional conflicts and turbulence fall and rise, terrorism, extremism and organised transnational crimes are yet to be eradicated, and the risks of illicit trade and diversion of conventional arms are on the increase," Chinese ambassador Li told the Geneva meeting on Monday.
He also registered China's protest against countries selling weaponry to non-state actors — without explicitly naming the US or Taiwan.
"Some country, in particular, abuses the arms trade as a political tool and flagrantly interferes in the internal affairs of other countries through means including arms sales to non-state actors, which undermines international and regional peace and stability," Li said.
Taliban take control of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 31, 2021.
Wali Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Last month, the Biden administration announced its first arms sale of about US$750 million to Taiwan. Beijing regards the self-ruled island as a renegade province and its "reunification" with the mainland as China's core national interest.
Under former President Donald Trump, who withdrew the US from the ATT in 2019, Washington sold significantly more weapons than before to Taiwan — further intensifying US-China tensions.
"Some country, out of its own interest, constantly breaks its commitments through relaxing its arms export control policies and even revoking its signature to the ATT, which undermines multilateral efforts in regulating conventional arms trade by the international community," Li said.
The ATT, which took effect in 2014, aims to regulate international trade in conventional weapons for the sake of promoting international and regional peace. China joined the multilateral group last year.
The US was the world's largest exporter of major arms between 2016 and 2020, followed by China in fifth place, accounting for 37% and 5.2%, respectively, of such transfers.
China was also the fifth largest importer of major arms during the period, with Russia its main supplier, according to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report released in March.
Chinese official's criticism hints at concern about all the US weapons the Taliban just captured
South China Morning Post
6-8 minutes
- China's envoy for disarmament affairs called out a country that "abuses the arms trade as a political tool" in what may be a reference to US arms sales to Taiwan.
- China's caution about illicit arms transfers comes as the Taliban takes control of US weapons in Afghanistan, deepening worries about spillover violence in China's Xinjiang.
China has called for increased vigilance against illicit arms transfers and — in an apparent reference to the US — urged all parties to a global arms trade treaty to stop selling weapons to "non-state actors."
"We support the international community to take all necessary measures to regulate the international arms trade and to combat the illicit transfer of conventional arms," Li Song, China's ambassador for disarmament affairs, told the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference in Geneva, marking China's first participation as a formal party to the pact.
Li did not name any specific incident, but the timing of the meeting could provide clues. Afghanistan is currently experiencing a turbulent power reshuffle, with the Taliban seizing control of the country following the complete withdrawal of US and Nato troops.
The insurgent group has reportedly taken possession of a considerable amount of American weapons and equipment from Afghan government forces, sparking worries that these may end up falling into the hands of terrorist groups with close ties to the Taliban, such as al-Qaeda.
Beijing has long feared that post-US turmoil would turn Afghanistan into a hub of terrorism. It has voiced worries that the upheaval would spill over and affect Beijing's heavy investments in Central Asia as well as its counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang, the far-western Chinese region bordering war-torn Afghanistan.
Members of ISIS-K and their weapons as they surrender to the government in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, November 17, 2019.
Wali Sabawoon/Getty Images
Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former head of the kingdom's intelligence services, blamed the US for its mismanagement.
"I don't know which word to use, whether incompetence, carelessness, bad management — it was all a combination of those things," he was quoted by CNBC as saying on Saturday.
The Biden administration has lately scrubbed online detailed reports of military equipment and training provided by the US to Afghan government forces, ostensibly to protect Afghan allies from Taliban retribution.
However, some policy commentators have pointed out that those reports did not identify recipient information and some other official reports that do include such information are still publicly available.
"Geopolitical tensions are escalating, regional conflicts and turbulence fall and rise, terrorism, extremism and organised transnational crimes are yet to be eradicated, and the risks of illicit trade and diversion of conventional arms are on the increase," Chinese ambassador Li told the Geneva meeting on Monday.
He also registered China's protest against countries selling weaponry to non-state actors — without explicitly naming the US or Taiwan.
"Some country, in particular, abuses the arms trade as a political tool and flagrantly interferes in the internal affairs of other countries through means including arms sales to non-state actors, which undermines international and regional peace and stability," Li said.
Taliban take control of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, August 31, 2021.
Wali Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Last month, the Biden administration announced its first arms sale of about US$750 million to Taiwan. Beijing regards the self-ruled island as a renegade province and its "reunification" with the mainland as China's core national interest.
Under former President Donald Trump, who withdrew the US from the ATT in 2019, Washington sold significantly more weapons than before to Taiwan — further intensifying US-China tensions.
"Some country, out of its own interest, constantly breaks its commitments through relaxing its arms export control policies and even revoking its signature to the ATT, which undermines multilateral efforts in regulating conventional arms trade by the international community," Li said.
The ATT, which took effect in 2014, aims to regulate international trade in conventional weapons for the sake of promoting international and regional peace. China joined the multilateral group last year.
The US was the world's largest exporter of major arms between 2016 and 2020, followed by China in fifth place, accounting for 37% and 5.2%, respectively, of such transfers.
China was also the fifth largest importer of major arms during the period, with Russia its main supplier, according to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report released in March.
