what will likely happen is that all of that money stays in the US. if Afghanistan is ever so lucky, they'll be allowed to use that 3.5B to save some US business by buying, idk, soy, at a markup
They won't in any meaningful numbers. Although I did read that Pakistan bought some, the demand for that is very limited (what, China or Russia, or their allies buying US weapons like that? there won't be the end of it in the Western media). And they need it. And a lot of it is trashed. And Taliban is trying hard to look respectable so that countries remove them from their terrorist lists and do real diplomacy. And it's not the way to feed the people anyway, not in any long term sustainable way.
what will likely happen is that all of that money stays in the US. if Afghanistan is ever so lucky, they'll be allowed to use that 3.5B to save some US business by buying, idk, soy, at a markup
Afghanistan will be fine they'll just sell the US weapons left over
They won't in any meaningful numbers. Although I did read that Pakistan bought some, the demand for that is very limited (what, China or Russia, or their allies buying US weapons like that? there won't be the end of it in the Western media). And they need it. And a lot of it is trashed. And Taliban is trying hard to look respectable so that countries remove them from their terrorist lists and do real diplomacy. And it's not the way to feed the people anyway, not in any long term sustainable way.
yeah fair enough good points