{"id":18317,"date":"2021-08-16T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2021-08-16T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:53:10","slug":"billions-of-dollars-spent-by-the-us-on-afghan-security-forces-ultimately-benefited-the-talibanunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18317","title":{"rendered":"Billions of dollars spent by the US on Afghan security forces ultimately benefited the TalibanUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostBuilt and trained at a two-decade cost of US$83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely \u2013 in some cases without a shot fired \u2013 that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but also US-supplied firepower \u2013 guns, ammunition, helicopters and more.The Taliban captured an array of modern military equipment when they overran Afghan forces who failed to defend district centres. Bigger gains\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/russia-central-asia\/article\/3145268\/billions-dollars-spent-us-afghan-security-forces?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostBuilt and trained at a two-decade cost of US$83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely \u2013 in some&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}