Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

OF all the equipment left to the Taliban, the nightvision goggles concern me the most mainly because they're easiest to maintain and yet a game changer in the hands of those who wield them.
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@primordialbias8711 Meh, their relationship with China is going to mitigate a lot of those problems. I think they'll get China to help them with a lot of repairs basically of all the equipment, but I expect the vast majority of it to end up in China's hands by the end of the day. Drones, Blackhawks, etc. They're going to get their hands on as many of them as possible, then reverse engineer them so they at the very least have the tech and at worst they use it against us. They have enough pairs of NVG's most likely to give 3 to each soldier in the Taliban (impossible to know for sure considering we don't know how many men are in the Taliban beyond estimates and it's unclear how many NVGs were actually left behind that weren't sabotaged on the way out). So you are right, the Taliban won't be able to maintain the equipment themselves but China's already made a visit and acknowledged the Taliban as a legitimate governing body in the meantime. They won't be able to maintain it, but China could.
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@ReaperPLUR It's so frustrating to think about. Our occupation achieved nothing, they're just in an even better position to commit their atrocities. Taliban 3.0 or whatever it is now. They knew they didn't have to win the war, they just had to not lose the war.
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@eas2252 I am very sure military grade night vision (et al) are more sophisticated and valuable than what you'd get on sale from fucking Amazon.
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@show2ime Because we all know how rich Afghanistan is. The fuck are you talking about? WE bought those weapons. We just didn't move them back because it's too expensive. Doesn't mean we shouldn't have destroyed them first. That would have cost something too but far less than actually transporting everything back.
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@virgilio6349 yeah the terrain seems like a logistical nightmare for people to invade. Probably a great place to defend, but a nightmare to invade.
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@J3diMindTrix Their new relationship with China and what China is likely to do with the tech is what worries me.
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@SavageHenry777 Aaaaaaaaaaand now the Taliban has a shit ton of them for free, courtesy of the US military and by extension the US taxpayers. I don't care if they came out of a cereal box, the fact they have them at all is a problem.
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@slimjim7411 Yeah we should just give them all of our shit so they can make versions of it even if they're not any better or worse. It's no biggie! It's not MURICAN so they're just gonna have a shittier alternative to it, right? Or we could have blown it all up and given our geopolitical rivals and enemies nothing. Oops!
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@realyopikechannel Damn that's fucked up bro
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@stevedevice Yeah those are pretty troubling too.
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@nicleslie9662 You're joking right? You know who showed up on Afghanistan's doorstep the minute America left? Well, honestly before that even, but China acknowledged the Taliban as a legitimate government body as soon as the US left. The point is, like let's just say for the sake of argument Afghanistan doesn't have access to batteries (they do, but let's just say they don't). If they can't power or use the equipment limiting factors wise along the avenue of batteries, China will trade with them for it most likely in exchange for other shit the US left behind.
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@JRay2113 They can. From China. China will help them if only because they're opposed to us. China was one of the first nations to recognize their legitimacy as a governing body after the debacle when Afghanistan was liberated last summer.
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My guess is it looks too much like a cell phone that Tupac owned in the early 90s
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