Taliban turning high tech US equipment over to the Chicoms for reverse engineering

 Mike Miller:

According to Donald Trump Jr., the Taliban is handing newly acquired Apache (and Black Hawk) helicopters over to China who will reverse engineer the helicopters and “make them better” — for two cents on the dollar of the cost paid by the U.S. military to develop the technology. Raise your hand if you’re shocked.

Trump Jr. made the accusation on a “Louder with Crowder” podcast, as he discussed Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan debacle with host Steven Crowder — a completely unnecessary disaster about which a high school kid with a modicum of intelligence could have predicted every tragic consequence.

Incidentally, Joe Biden was desperate to be the president who not only ended the war in Afghanistan — but ended it prior to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Yet, in classic Biden fashion, he will instead be remembered as the president who walked away from Afghanistan, billions of dollars of advanced U.S. military technology, commitments to NATO allies, and most inexcusable, untold numbers of American citizens trapped behind enemy lines at the mercy of the Taliban. Good job, Joe.

Without coming up for air once, DJT Jr. launched into a diatribe of accusations, a bit reminiscent of another guy named Trump — but sounding as if he was on speed.

They have freakin’ Apaches. They’re selling them to the Chinese who are reverse-engineering them, and within about two weeks, they will have a helicopter that will destroy the Apache — after we spent billions and billions in R & D, and years developing it, the Chinese now will have that — they will reverse-engineer it to have a better piece of equipment for two cents on the dollar after we’ve spent trillions in development. That’s how the world works.

The Chinese are talking about taking over Bagram Air Force Base that we sunk billions in that would have been a nice place to maybe have a presence, essentially on the border with China. But our genius military is really focused on ‘white rage’ and critical race theory and teaching us that diversity will somehow make a stronger fighting force. No one who actually fights understands even remotely how that is possible but our generals do and they have told us distinctly. If you question that you will be thrown out of the military. We’ve seen that.

Now, if you’re a lunatic who’s preaching the leftist B.S. that they’re talking about on a daily basis, you will likely be promoted. You see the conservative purge in the military — I saw it — I have friends on the SEAL teams— literally operators. They have told me verbatim: They spend more time in diversity training than they do shooting—

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 In a Defense One article on Friday, Technology Editor Patrick Tucker addressed the troubling prospect that advanced U.S. military equipment now in the hands of the Taliban will yield troves of information about how the U.S. builds weapons and uses them. Even if rendered inoperable, according to Tucker.

Tucker’s opening sentence set the tone for the entire article.

The ultimate winner of two decades of war in Afghanistan is likely China. The aircraft and armored vehicles left behind when U.S. forces withdrew will give China—through their eager partners, the Taliban—a broad window into how the U.S. military builds and uses some of its most important tools of war.

Expect the Chinese military to use this windfall to create—and export to client states—a new generation of weapons and tactics tailored to U.S. vulnerabilities, said several experts who spent years building, acquiring, and testing some of the equipment that the Taliban now controls.

Pretty much everything that has come out of the mouths of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from the nanosecond the gravity of the Biden Afghanistan debacle first became clear, has been proven false. These two marionettes have repeatedly assured us that the equipment left behind was disabled and left inoperable — although we did see the Taliban flying what appeared to be a Black Hawk helicopter above a Taliban military parade of other U.S. military equipment within, oh, 17 minutes of the Americans blowing out of town.

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There have also been reports that some of this equipment has already been transferred to Iran, another adversary of the US and Israel.  One of the many major things absent from the US withdrawal was a plan to get our people and our weapons out.  Neither Austin nor Milley have indicated that such a plan even existed and if it did it certainly was not operating during the Biden debacle. No wonder even college students are yelling "F*** Biden."