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Celestial
Little bit off the current hot topic, but still quite fresh:
Addition:
Actually this dove tails into what Jullian Asagne was saying. War is just a money laundering opportunity to flush out wast amounts of tax payers money. It was the same during Vietnam war.
Look at how much brand new Afghan military equipment, from US manufacturers, was given up to the Taliban when the US withdrew. Billions upon billions of dollars worth. More than the Afghan military knew what to do with, whose members were typically too illiterate to operate the more complex items in their inventory. The vast operation to train the Afghan military over two decades was also clearly a bogus farce, as they folded within one week against a numerically inferior and less-well-equipped foe. There is the whiff of corruption from the sale of all of that equipment, and no doubt consultancy fees paid to 'train' the Afghan military.