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2021-07-25 Afghanistan
President Biden requests $3.3 billion for Afghan military
[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 2021-07-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#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||   2021-07-25 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 And the Big Guy™ taking 100 points right off the top...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-07-25 00:51||   2021-07-25 00:51|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2021-07-25 01:23|| Front Page Top

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

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

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

#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||   2021-07-25 01:30|| Front Page Top

#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||   2021-07-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

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

#11 Shipman! Welcome back!
Posted by Matt 2021-07-25 11:14||   2021-07-25 11:14|| Front Page Top

#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||   2021-07-25 12:11|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2021-07-25 13:24|| Front Page Top

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

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

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