Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby tells CNN that equipment left in Taliban-controlled Kabul, like helicopters and trucks, was demilitarized and left unusable. #CNN #News
Pentagon spokesman: Gear left behind was made unusable
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Like they can’t just hire some engineers to figure out the equipment…. And if they use it for bad things, we can always blow it up later. Let’s see how things go, being at peace. Peace. Peace. Let that sink in.
If what you say is true it would be easy for them to build their own from scratch.
Some of those engineers are the people we left behind.
@Sandy Gan How did you do the best thing. You did it half as backwards. Americans are still over there and now we have vets going over there to rescue those people Joe and his cronies from the Obama WH WH didn’t do. You remember all the military fiascos under Obama.
@Just A Wave Why are they so worried teting to cover their butts if it isn’t working.
He he, immobilized, well guess you get different news to that of Europe, we have seen them driving round in military vehicles, maybe it is banned from showing over there in USA, I know you have lot trouble getting real news.
Not seen them flying helicopters yet though.
Didn’t look unusable when they were parading down the street with it!
@Nick Martin Can you criticize Biden at all? I mean seriously you’re pathetic. 13 marines were killed because he pulled troops out before civilians and SENT MORE IN AFTERWARDS. HE KEPT LOOKING AT HIS WATCH DURING THEIR MEMORIAL. When Trump was president I bet you criticized every little thing he did, every day. But you’re so politically blinded by partisanship you can’t even recognize that Biden is geriatric and every single thing in this country has gotten WORSE since he was sworn in. But keep blaming Trump, right? Gtfo you clown
@Nick Martin You are seriously the most blind person I’ve ever met. Taliban are walking around in US gear and armed with US weapons and you don’t even bat an eye because your on your knees ready for Biden’s dusty load
@jon pork 👈. Doesn’t change the fact Biden has blood on his hands. Biden is destroying our country so put that in your pork and chew on it
@Just A Wave I am the conspiracy not? You people were believing the fake news all these years about President Trump and they found out it was all bullshit. But CNN news they’re viewers are mostly dumb and they can get away with it
@Just A Wave https://youtube.com/shorts/kx8IJy7OhXo?feature=share
Keep it up. So you voted for Biden to just hurt us all. Really? Plenty of videos are surface that Talibans driving our vehicles, weapons and all stuffs. Why abandoned it?! Democrats……
that was just the airport… there were vehicles and equipment all over afghanistan left for the taliban by the afghan army.
Think of it as a gift to the Taliban to help them fight ISIS-K.
@Chi Quita Feldberg yea they could learn how to operate most things with practice.. even choppers could start to be used by taliban now. They are worth millions even if they didnt fly them.. im sure china would like to buy one or two.
@Chi Quita Feldberg what JETS ¿?
Most of them can even read….. they can’t just figure out how to fly without instructions. Well maybe, but they’ll run out of helicopters before they figure it out.
@Chi Quita Feldberg lol dude most jets and helicopters now have so much flight assist
all they have to do is just enter a GPS location and a flight altitude and the craft will take off then fly to that destination based on topography
i just did this the other day in a su-27, barely even consider that flying as it sets trim for u automatically even if ur not using autopilot
theres also AI assisted take off and landing and hovering/circling at specific altitudes
imagine telsa cars but far more advanced
Made unusable. As they walk around with our guns and were seen in videos flying our helicopters and driving our Humvees.
@Mr. White aye, seen it.
He made a statement about equipment left at the airport. People like you who take quotes out of context just to push a certain narrative to get people pissed, are why our country is so divided. Yes. They are driving around equipment that the ANA abandoned. No. That’s not what he’s referring to.
The pentagon still thinks it’s the 90s. They forget that we have social media and the internet to fact check them in real time
U know they already had stuff and the coward Afghanistan president and military that ran immediately gave them weapon not just that damage stuff
@Matt 88 You racists haven’t caught them in a lie yet.
Oh so the black hawk copter they were hanging that guy from was not working??? Don’t pee on our heads and tell us it’s raining!
it was a afghan bird
@djbenzo theres the fascist left we all know
@andrea Perry i guess that makes it ok, right?? They are clearly flying our aircraft but they can’t operate them, right? Does it matter if a guy is on a harness or dies it matter that your administration is lying, again. Are you going to actually wake up?? Are you going to convince yourself that voting for Biden was the right thing?? Your administration has completely burned bridges with ALL of our allies, the UN. We are an absolute laughing stock and a weakening power. Stay woke, right??????
@vick moore That video is being used to stoke hate. Mission accomplished.
@andrea Perry still it proves our govt did not disable what they left behind WICH was the point off the story.
20 years in…. government collapsed in a day. No progress that you can point too. Just dead soldiers. gg gg
Satan got what it wanted.
and back to “square one”, a breeding ground for terrorists….again.
In WW2 they had a word for this FUBAR. The only difference was back then generals were relieved for failure.
and SNAFU and TS.
The spokesman looks haunted.
Cluster F#ck
Shermans all over the World post WW2.
In WW2 if anyone had pulled something like this off they would have called it a miracle. You racists just pretend Biden did something wrong regardless of the facts.
@jon pork WW2 ended in victory. This is ignominious defeat, you sexist.
Why do I believe that “gear made unsuable” is a “covering our a$$ after the fact”?
@Upper 90 Sure racist, that’s why they nominated a gameshow host. No. that was Republicans.
@jon pork to call someone a racist without even knowing them just shows who the real racist is 💯
because you should know that any country on earth with military capability never leaves a full and functioning equipment behind. it has been this way for decades, in various countries; why should it be different now?
to be a military general does not imply stupidity; usually, those guys have experience, intelligence and always think ahead of you.
What makes you think they would leave a full and functioning equipment that might be used against them at one point? what makes you think that they are that stupid?
gear made unusable is a basic thing to do. I am 1000% sure these generals are more clever than you think.
@Loan TRAN-THANH what makes you think they didn’t leave the equipment intact . I mean was the Afghan army supposed to use equipment that didn’t work. I mean to continuously come up with excuses for a president just because of a title Democrat just shows how brainwashed you are. I never understood how people can vote for one party always 🤦
@Tiffany C. there already videos of talibans driving our hummers. OUR HUMMERS!!!!!!
So yeah you voted for Biden to hurt us all.
You should have made it self-destructing, whenever someone tried to use it. Making it “unusable” means someone can fix it or use it for parts.
That would be an act of war and the taliban would probably revoke the amnesty for afghans who helped the us and would execute them as a result
I wonder how the highly trained service dogs were made “unusable.” Were they hoping they would just starve?
@James Guy Photography are you trying to say Black Americans are all “Trumpers” since the black community has the lowest vaccination rates?
@Longhorn We used to trick black people into being used in medical experiments. You want to criticize people for remembering history?
@James Guy Photography you’re the one that said “your manufactured outrage won’t do much for the 1500 or so Trumpers who will die today,” not me.
So… We didn’t have enough pilots to fly or drive that equipment to friendly bases? Billions of tax dollars wasted.
@harktz now unusable
In every conflict the USA leaves old stuff behind. Why would we want aging broken stuff to begin with and the cost to move it. THAT is a waste of money.
@harktz not quite. That may have been the cost of the items new. The stuff left behind was mostly d and worn out. 5 cents on the dollar
@Stu Bonner why would the Chinese want old or outdated technology? You think that the USA gives the most updated weaponry to foreign countries. Not likely
Great point about relocation of equipment by the WERE AFGHANISTAN MILITARY.
They look like they’re flying them helicopters pretty good they must’ve fixed them
..https://youtu.be/ZHo44B1pnVg
Never rendered inop to begin with….
Nope.
They don’t believe there’s very many, but he can’t give a number…🤔
I don’t believe they even bothered to leave the vehicles unusable. I wouldn’t be surprised if they left the keys in them with a full tank of gas
@ImtheEntity Good answer! Better than this troll deserves.
@ImtheEntity triggered, Boris?
It was part of Bidens exit plan
With a discount coupon on next fill up.
@Billy Cole II K Yuri
“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in it’s dense, gray fog not even one pillar can be seen.”
(Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago)
So that Blackhawk flying around with a person lynched from it was unusable? I swear, no admin thought so little of the American people to lie this much about everything!
You are gullible repeating debunked idiocy.
sure mr.pork, whatever you say, its time for you to take your midday nap.
It seemed like the Blackhawk they used to hang people from, like in a fucking movie was pretty usable.
@general jg its good to embarass america because their ego’s are huge but i fear the fate of the afghan people….
@Robert Steinberger = 3rd world country clown
@Love JuanAnother Yeah Snopes is lieing trash. That rope was around the guys neck. Literally all stations around the world even in the middle east and India are all confirming it was an interpreter that was hanged.
@Nathan Kim all fact-checking websites are garbage.
@J A K E I read their article and their evidence was laughable… Tweets about that being their (Taliban) patrol unit. They took a zoomed in photo of the guys arm above his head and were like, “see he is waving, everything is good.” Failed to pay attention to the fact that they guy isn’t wearing shoes.
Havent they seen the copters already patrolling over Kabul, with a body swinging below?
Flat tyres aint hard to fix.
The lying just makes decent people turn away and and never believe what they tell us
Media support this and the administration shameful
“Not concerned about the images of them walking around.” 🙄
That Blackhawk helicopter they hanged someone from sure looked inoperable.