Submission Statement
Between 2001 and 2021, under four U.S. presidents, the United States spent approximately $2.3 trillion, with 2,459 American military fatalities and up to 360,000 estimated Afghan civilian deaths.
After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, approximately $7.12 billion worth of military equipment was left behind, according to a 2022 Department of Defense report. This equipment, transferred to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to 2021, included:
Weapons: Over 300,000 of 427,300 weapons, including rifles like M4s and M16s.
Vehicles: More than 40,000 of 96,000 military vehicles, including 12,000 Humvees and 1,000 armored vehicles.
Aircraft: 78 aircraft, valued at $923.3 million, left at Hamid Karzai International Airport, all demilitarized and rendered inoperable.
Munitions: 9,524 air-to-ground munitions worth $6.54 million, mostly non-precision.
Communications and Specialized Equipment: Nearly all communications gear (e.g., radios, encryption devices) and 42,000 pieces of night vision, surveillance, biometric, and positioning equipment.
The total equipment provided to the ANDSF was valued at $18.6 billion, with the $7.12 billion figure representing what remained after the withdrawal. Much of this equipment is now under Taliban control, though its operational capability is limited due to the need for specialized maintenance and technical expertise.
The United States has provided at least $93.41 billion in total aid to Afghanistan since 2001. This includes:
Military Aid (2001–2020): Approximately $72.7 billion (in current dollars), primarily through the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund ($71.7 billion) and other programs like International Military Education and Training, Foreign Military Financing, and Peacekeeping Operations ($1 billion combined).
Humanitarian and Reconstruction Aid (2001–2025): Around $20.71 billion, including $3 billion in humanitarian and development aid post-2021 and $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan assets transferred to the Afghan Fund in 2022. Pre-2021 reconstruction and humanitarian aid (e.g., $174 million in 2001 and $300 million pledged in 2002) adds to this, though exact figures for the full period are less clear.
That’s a lot of dollar.
Like in the first episode of Beverley Hillbillies: “They offered me 125 dollars for the bog. But I don’t know what kind of dollars. I know gold dollars and silver dollars, and even those newfangled paper dollars. But what is a million dollar?”
2.3 trillion went missing in the 00s and no one ever found it. Maybe that’s money being used to achieve what’s happening now in USA… Maybe it was stolen and used to help overthrow USA with criminals… Maybe American strings are being pulled by organized crime intertwined with politicians and businesses that are too naive to believe that could happen them in their country or are extorted and pressured to follow along. And when some senator is murdered that’s just the strong arm of the boss manipulating some victim to kill showing what can happen if you don’t go along with their idealistic games.
What’s happening in America now isn’t new. It’s a long game. Careers are chosen for its completion. Corrupting the system that’s used as our foundation.
Legal modern Mafia.
The money isnt “missing”. It was spent somewhere somehow by DHS/Pentagon. They are just so bad at basic math they don’t know what exactly it was spent on. But if we keep giving them more money I’m sure they’ll get better at…eventually.