{"id":12790,"date":"2021-08-28T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T01:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2021-08-28T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T01:37:31","slug":"taliban-has-85-billion-worth-of-taxpayer-funded-us-military-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=12790","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Has $85 Billion Worth Of Taxpayer-Funded US Military Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban now has access to more than $85 billion worth of U.S. military equipment abandoned by the Afghan army in the wake of Biden&#8217;s disastrous exit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/27\/the-taliban-now-has-85-billion-worth-of-taxpayer-funded-us-military-equipment\/\">Taliban Has $85 Billion Worth Of Taxpayer-Funded US Military Equipment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Does the US armed forces not know how to destroy things?<\/p>\n<p>I have read that most of this equipment was never the top-line stuff the US uses; 1st gen Humvees, for instance, that are being rotated out of service after 30 years of use.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this article, or at least the $85B figure is from a (R) congresscritter, so likely to be inflated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban now has access to more than $85 billion worth of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[687,758,57,56],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-usa","tag-war","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}