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Afghanistan
President Biden requests $3.3 billion for Afghan military
2021-07-25
[KhaamaPress] US recent request to Congress for supporting ANDSF worth $3.3 billion which prioritizes, one billion dollars for the Afghan Air Force to support ongoing military operation which also include delivering additional aircraft, one billion dollars for purchasing key supplies to ANDSF including fuel, ammunition, and spare parts, and $700 million to continued payment of salaries for Afghan troops.

It comes as the United Kingdom announced its one hundred million pounds of aid to Afghanistan this year.
Very likely a Foggy Bottom - Green Zone leasing arrangement to the Taliban. They've had over 20 years to arm up. Good money after bad.
Posted by:trailing wife

#16  Likewise, thanks for the information, tw. #12, no problem.
Posted by: Matt   2021-07-25 15:24  

#15  Didn't know that TW,thanks for the info.
Posted by: Chris   2021-07-25 15:15  

#14  NO! We are broke! The national debt is north of 30 trillion and growing like a cancer. If the Treasury had to pay even 3% return on existing t-bills/debt it would consume the entire federal budget. The Fed doesn't dare use liquidity tools or decrease buying treasuries in the greatest ponzi scheme in world history, or the whole fiat money system would collapse when any sane person looked at it. Since the 1960's America has endured the greatest looting of the public treasury since the fall of Rome, and the level of direct and indirect ruinous taxation on the middle class is worse than that experienced by the serf class in medieval Europe. We have exported our industrial base, imported useless illegals and torn the fabric of the nation to tatters over racist slanders as we devolve into tribal groupthink and educate our children in progressive gibberish. And the remedy of an honest election is now dubious at best as we see that the Marxists and their allies clearly stole the last elections....God help us!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-07-25 13:24  

#13  Shipman died quietly of cancer a few years ago, Matt.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-07-25 12:54  

#12  Matt, that was me, the limerick idiot, idiotically taking the name in vain upon remembering Shipman's thing for pie hats. Should've gone with "Ghost of Shipman," or just kept quiet, since I only knew the man from his later posts here. Sorry for any confusion.
Posted by: Herman Clunk1385   2021-07-25 12:11  

#11  Shipman! Welcome back!
Posted by: Matt   2021-07-25 11:14  

#10  And 50% to ANSDF and MoD officials' bank accounts.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-07-25 08:16  

#9  

Likely with about 25% funneled back thru various SIG's and PAC's to DC Family pockets.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-07-25 07:15  

#8  That’s a first — we’ve never been haunted by the dead before.

Miss you dreadfully, Shipman.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-07-25 01:30  

#7  Hell yeah, and I didn't even know ya!
Posted by: Herman Clunk1385   2021-07-25 01:29  

#6  Shouldn't that be "every?" Also, miss me yet?
Posted by: Shipman   2021-07-25 01:28  

#5  Hats are so out of fashion.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-07-25 01:24  

#4  How about millinery this time, just for variety: Diddlerjugend Volunteers Deliver Top Quality Made-in-China Apple Pie Hats to Each American!
Posted by: Herman Clunk1385   2021-07-25 01:23  

#3  Any reports of Biden art work being involved ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-25 00:56  

#2  And the Big Guyâ„¢ taking 100 points right off the top...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-07-25 00:51  

#1  The 1980's revisited with corrupt locals everybody involved, Pakistan and the Taliban getting a cut ...first.
Posted by: magpie   2021-07-25 00:42  

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