Keep believed the in your own BS, it will let you no where except failure and defeats.
Is this how you behave when you are at a disagreement in a discussion? How awful for you.
US and Brits were meticulous in dismantling and taking anything of value under their use. Every is either packed, destroyed or transferred to ANA.
Really? Does that include UH-60 helos and Humvees also? The ANA you speak of so confidently doesn't exist anymore as they were defeated by the Mujahiddin. So all that military hardware left to the ANA was miraculously teleported back to america and britain?
Now if you believe old ANA M-16s, and other small arm along with their beat up hummves , and ford 4x4 cost $85 then you are mistaken. Total cost to Built and trained at a two-decade cost was $83 billion. That’s equates to $4 billion per/yr. Which is peanuts for country with a GDP of $23 trillion. Small town or a university in US has a budget large than this.
It is the United States Congress that came out with the figure of $85 billion, not me. You might want to petition them for accountability to their claim.
Dollars is world reserve currency, regardless of equipment cost, US can print dollars at will and buy raw resources from anywhere in the world. Germans neither has land or unlimited resources. No other country can print dollars at will. So $200 million or billions is just a number.
The USD became the world reserve currency (post 1973) once the Saudis along with the other GCC states agreed to sell their oil only in USD.
Today, Saudis are arranging an agreement with China to sell their (Saudi) oil in Chinese Yuan.
What would happen to the US economy, and to the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, if the Chinese yuan became the oil industry's currency of choice?
qz.com
Qatar has also signed deals with China to become a "clearing hub" for Chinese Yuan. The volume of currency at this Doha-Remnibi hub is worth ¥35 billion, similar amount to the Dubai-Remnibi hub currency swap volume. This is aside from the fact that Qatar signed a 27 year deal with China to sell it $60 billion worth of gas.
* Bilateral swap deal could help diversify reserves (Releads with context, analysis)
www.reuters.com
Similar deals are taking place with other countries like India and others.
And the point for posting these arguments is that the USD's supremacy is steadily and resolutely diminishing across the planet. With it, american dominance is also diminishing.
You remember 2003 American-British invasion of Iraq which based on the lie that Saddam had WMD? Yeah that invasion happened without the authorization of the UNSC. No country had the balls to challenge America on its invasion of Iraq. Fast forward 2022, Ukraine is getting butt-whooped by Russia as the Russian military has absorbed five regions (Zaparojhe, Donestk, Lugansk, Kherson and Crimea) and no one, I repeat no one has the balls to challenge Russia in battle.
America is showing itself to be a broken bull desperately trying to avoid any direct fight with Russia.
Only thing you will achieve with this mentality is losing dozen mediocre Jet to a single high tech jet. 24-0, that’s what USMC F-35 did to non-stealthy jets in an air battle exercises.
Twist of irony? F-35 "
Lightning lls" cannot fly in weather conditions where there maybe lightning. The flight restrictions were imposed by the Pentagon since June 2020!!
“Due to additional findings earlier this year, this upgrade will provide an improvement, but is insufficient to lift the lightning restriction,” an F-35 spokesman told Breaking Defense. “Lightning restrictions will be lifted when all safety concerns are resolved or acceptably mitigated.”
breakingdefense.com
The vaunted "stealth coatings" on the F-35 Lightning ll seem to peel off when the aircraft is in supersonic flight.
April 26, 2022 - The U.S. and allies buying F-35 fighter jets could face added costs as problems emerge during long-delayed combat simulation tests, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). infographic
www.graphicnews.com
So let me just finish this post by saying that I am not a person who goes on a rant because I hate the West. I do my research, I verify the information whether it is authentic or not (which is a challenging task in itself) and base my discussions on a principle that it is a discussion and not mud slinging back and forth.
If wish to discuss the subject, I am more than open to engage. But if you resort to using language like "
if you believe the bullshit " then let me save you the trouble of replying to my post .... I end such matters, right there and then.
Ma'assalamah!
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