Race to oblivion ! Afghanistan vs. South Vietnam edition

[RallyMo]

 

 

 

 

[Redondo]

 

[Crampknees]

2 minutes ago, Redondo said:

 

The new Branco's here, the new Branco's here

[tdawg87]

2 hours ago, Redondo said:

 

Woke RX.

Branco is running out of ideas, guys.

[mmc]

 

[Jason]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/confidential-state-department-cable-in-july-warned-of-afghanistans-collapse-11629406993

What an epic failure on the part of this administration 

[mmc]

 

[Blarg]

4 minutes ago, mmc said:

 

I have to wonder if any of the aircraft that wan't small survelience craft, were left with any avionics in place. Without the proper flight crew and maintenence our top aircraft is basically a museum piece. 

[mmc]

[tdawg87]

So clearly this is a massive oopsie from the Biden administration.

But, were we not just advocating for getting tfo of Afghanistan not long ago?

Well here you go.

[tdawg87]

Just now, mmc said:

Lmao

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Lmao

He’s not wrong though 

[St1ck]

2 minutes ago, mmc said:

He wanted to bomb the bases and then bring out the military. Eesh I know he thinks military members are losers and suckers I didn't know he wanted to murder them. 

[tdawg87]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

He’s not wrong though 

I believe he is.

There was no good way to handle this. Biden fucked it up. But...well, you know.

[Jason]

1 minute ago, tdawg87 said:

I believe he is.

There was no good way to handle this. Biden fucked it up. But...well, you know.

Forget about the country and focus on getting people and military items out first. That’s what should have happened. It’s like when you take your car in to get an oil change, you take the change out of the ashtray so those lowlife ass wipes don’t steal it. 

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

Forget about the country and focus on getting people and military items out first. That’s what should have happened. It’s like when you take your car in to get an oil change, you take the change out of the ashtray so those lowlife ass wipes don’t steal it. 

I do not do this. I consider it a tip.

There's probably some french fries between the seats too that they're more than welcome to help themselves to.

[tdawg87]

And by "probably" I mean "certainly".

[Jay]

49 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I have to wonder if any of the aircraft that wan't small survelience craft, were left with any avionics in place. Without the proper flight crew and maintenence our top aircraft is basically a museum piece. 

Some stuff might be worth money if the Chinese or others want to reverse-engineer it.

[Blarg]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

Some stuff might be worth money if the Chinese or others want to reverse-engineer it.

That's why I mentioned removal of avionics. Currently the Chinese are fully invested in Russian aircraft exploitation. The hull of our aircraft has no real value without the sophisticated electronics. 

[Jason]

38 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

And by "probably" I mean "certainly".

When my daughter was little it was always interesting to see what was under the car seat when I took it out. 

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, Blarg said:

That's why I mentioned removal of avionics. Currently the Chinese are fully invested in Russian aircraft exploitation. The hull of our aircraft has no real value without the sophisticated electronics. 

If they weren’t going to take the aircraft they should have blown them up 

[Amazing Larry]

50 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

I believe he is.

There was no good way to handle this. Biden fucked it up. But...well, you know.

Uh... if we exited the way Trump described there wouldn't be 10k US citizens stuck outside the airport waiting to get their heads chopped off on a live stream.

[Kevin]

If only Trump had exited before Biden became President none of this would have happened...well maybe some of it.

 

By the way, how much of that stuff got left behind by the Afghan military?

[Amazing Larry]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

I have to wonder if any of the aircraft that wan't small survelience craft, were left with any avionics in place. Without the proper flight crew and maintenence our top aircraft is basically a museum piece. 

There are videos of them flying our helicopters but who knows what the fuel/weapons systems situation is.

[Jason]

6 minutes ago, Kevin said:

If only Trump had exited before Biden became President none of this would have happened...well maybe some of it.

 

By the way, how much of that stuff got left behind by the Afghan military?

That’s a good point. Probably a lot of it