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2021-05-31 Afghanistan

Pentagon 2022 Budget Request for ANDSF $3.3 Billion, Up 9.2%

[ToloNews] The US Department of Defense has asked for $3.3 billion for the 2022 fiscal year budget in operational support to sustain the Afghan cops, a 9.2% increase from 2021.

Biden’s $715 billion Department of Defense budget includes a 2.7% pay raise for troops and shifts billions in spending from old systems to help pay to modernize the nuclear arsenal to deter China.

The defense spending request for fiscal 2022 that was sent to US Congress on Friday invests in troop readiness, space, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative aimed at countering China's military build-up in Asia and nuclear weapons technology, according to a report by Rooters.

Pentagon officials have said that the United States would still support Afghanistan through financial means, not boots on the grounds, according to a report by Defense One.

The US Army would get $173.0 billion under the Pentagon’s fiscal 2022 budget request, down from the $176.6 billion it received in the current fiscal year, according to its budget documents, Defense One reports.

According to the report, the US Army will see a $3.2 billion decrease in costs in operation and maintenance funds due to the Afghanistan and Iraq drawdowns.

If inflation stays at 4 percent, the report says, that would mean a real decrease of about 6 percent — a steeper real decline than in the overall defense budget request, which at $715 billion would decline about 3 percent in real terms from the current year.

Quoting senior defense officials, Defense One reports that Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan means the Navy and Air Force need more money and the Army less.

The withdrawal of the US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces from the country started on May 1. So far, according to figures provided by US Central Command, the Pentagon has retrograded the equivalent of approximately 160 C-17 loads of material out of Afghanistan and has turned over more than 10,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposition.

A key military base of US forces in downtown, the New Kabul Compound, also known as NKC, was handed over to the Ministry of Defense at a ceremony on Friday.

The figures also show that the US had by last week officially handed over five facilities to the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
in a speech on Friday honored the sacrifice of combat veterans ahead of the planned withdrawal later this year from Afghanistan and said they have achieved their purpose in the country — which was "to prevent al Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a base from which to attack America in the future.

Addressing US service members in a hangar at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, Biden said the US went to Afghanistan with a clear purpose: "to get the people who attacked us on 9/11 and to prevent al Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a base from which to attack America in the future. To achieve that purpose — you achieved that purpose."

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 the United States would still support Afghanistan through financial means

$3.3 billion for the 2022 fiscal year budget in operational support to sustain the Afghan security forces,

Who are doing such a fine job with all those numbers [even their ghost personnel]. But they need your money to keep doing it. Yes, yes! The need for $$$ is all that's holding them from utterly annihilating terrorism from their 'stan. Like the other 'stan next door, all they need is the ~~moolah~~ 'financial support'. A few billion [annually] can end this evil forever and usher in democracy. Wouldn't you like that? Oh, when will that ~~moolah~~ support arrive?

Because if it doesn't, a school full of girls might pay for your reluctance.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-31 01:10|| 2021-05-31 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 the United States would still support ~~Afghanistan~~ South Vietnam through financial means.

I saw this movie! Ends badly.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-05-31 01:29|| 2021-05-31 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw this movie! Ends badly.

The Democrats cut off funding in 3 years and then helicopters on the embassy roof.

Posted by Flaising Omeling6076 2021-05-31 08:19|| 2021-05-31 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Russia will form 20 new military units close to border with Europe 'in response to growing threat from NATO'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-31 12:16|| 2021-05-31 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The Democrats cut off funding in 3 years and then helicopters on the embassy roof.

Even without the funding, the Afghans might beat the Taliban. After the US withdrawal sometime in 1973, DRV (North Vietnam) got this huge infusion of tanks, fighter-bombers and artillery and both Chinese and Soviet aid. RVN (South Vietnam) got bupkis.

For the Taliban, Pakistan isn't up to filling the role of the Soviets and the Chinese as head moneybags and armorer. Does Xi Jinping want the Taliban in charge? Maybe - if he wants a pretext for conquest and eventual annexation. Afghanistan, a chunk of which might arguably have been part of the Tang Dynasty, would certainly be an easy conquest for any power willing to pacify it using the old rules of war (i.e. the ones used so handily by the Greeks to pacify and rule Persia for centuries).

https://www.timemaps.com/history/china-750ad/

A guerrilla force that isn't subject to large-scale atrocity against its civilian supporters, even as it uses atrocity to cow its opponents in the government can fight on for a long time. But the idea in the media that the Taliban "controls" anything is BS - like saying that the cartels "control" Mexico. The day the cartels try to take over the Federal government in Mexico City, they'll find out who controls what.

And the day US troops pull out, the Afghan government will have a freer hand to match the Taliban atrocity for atrocity. Without Uncle Sam's protection, how many foreign journos will stay on to record on a one-sided basis, government atrocities to match the Taliban's?

Note that there's also a huge difference between the Taliban and the DRV. The DRV never sponsored a mass killing on American soil. In the back of every US politician's mind is - what happens when the Taliban leadership, once again in charge of Afghanistan, tries once again to arrange a one-way ticket to Paradise in collaboration with al Qaeda, but this time with nukes? It's not so much the attack that worries them, but an attack on DC, where Congresscritters and the President live.

Note that 9/11 occurred with no prior notification, leaving los Federales all the way up to the President with no time to huddle in bunkers. What if 9/11 had been an A-bomb attack? Dubya and any part of the Federal government in DC would have been swept away. That's why the aid is likely to continue - simple self-preservation.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-05-31 13:46|| 2021-05-31 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are we poking the Bear?

To what end? For whose benefit?

At what cost -- especially the opportunity cost entailed by not devoting our scarce resources and attention to the only really major threat to our security, Communist China

Posted by Thrinemble Black7053 2021-05-31 14:13|| 2021-05-31 14:13|| Front Page Top

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