By Santiago Vera GarcíaAccording to a report released by the British paper The Sun, Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the midst of a series of settlements with the Taliban to purchase military equipment left behind by the United States in Afghanistan, in exchange for cash, Russian weapons, and possible recognition of the group as the genuine federal government of the Afghan country.According to the Telegram channel General SVR , Russia means to utilize this US military hardware now in the hands of the Taliban to reinforce its forces in Ukraine.

General SVR is an anonymous channel that has actually used huge amounts of info that ended up being true and claims to be run by a former lieutenant general of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo web recreation)According to General SVR, Putin is managing settlements with the Taliban to acknowledge the Taliban government and in return, the Russian leadership is providing a significant exchange of weapons and military devices.

People initiated into the details of the negotiations state the Taliban are very shocked by such propositions, however they are discussing them in earnest, he claims.Taliban fighters travel in a convoy of US-made Humvees (Photo web reproduction)Putin had said in the past that the Taliban possess particular weapons and devices, including those taken after concerning power in Afghanistan, which are presently in brief supply for the Russian military on the front lines.THE DEPLORABLE United States WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTANUS troops were hastily withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021, after Biden provided the order for the United States military to stop supplying help to the then-Army of the now-defunct Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.While there was an extensive project initiated by Trump and collaborated with the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense of the Afghan Republic for the United States to withdraw from Afghanistan in May 2021, Biden canceled the plan in April of that year and created a new program to formally withdraw from the country on September 11, with a possible check out of the Democrat to the Islamic country.This broke the pact Trump had reached with the Taliban, who had actually promised to recognize the federal government of Ashraf Ghani in exchange for the United States exit from the nation, and the jihadists rapidly used up arms again.Under the brand-new plan, United States troops were to stop offering air support in July and stop any participation in military disputes in August, a choice that should have been customized following the announcement that the Taliban were relaunching guerrilla warfare.But the lack of decision of the White House to decide, certainly linked to the senile condition of Joe Biden, who should have had latest thing on any such measure, the United States troops had to start withdrawing ahead of schedule since of the Taliban advance, till the eventful August 30 when the guerrillas reached the capital, Kabul.Once once again, silence from Washington triggered troops to improvise an escape from Kabul, withdrawing first to the airport on the outskirts of the city and after that giving all United States civilians in the country 48 hours to reach the website to be extracted.In those days, ISIS released a suicide attack on the airport, eliminating 12 Marines and a hundred Afghan civilians camped outside the gates to be enabled to leave for the US with them.The Forces ultimately chose to leave the country, leaving behind a minimum of 1,500 Americans (mainly Afghans who had actually been granted citizenship for their contribution to the US effort throughout the intrusion), with images that advised much of the Saigon withdrawal, which happened under a Democratic administration practically as inefficient as the present one.In this withdrawal, the United States left behind hundreds of countless guns and ammunition, Humvees, tanks, helicopters, and other equipment that remained in the hands of the Taliban.The Taliban fighters are believed to have kept as many as half a million US weapons and as numerous as 50,000 vehicles.A Pentagon report in April 2022 estimated that the U.S.

had left behind US$ 7 billion worth of military devices in Afghanistan.Taliban fighters wield US-made attack rifles (Photo web reproduction)During the 20-year war, the United States spent an estimated US$ 78 billion on weapons and automobiles to equip the Afghan army as they propped up the government after toppling the Taliban in 2001.

US files expose that a shocking number of weapons, lorries, and military equipment were delivered to Kabul, just for Afghan forces to be swept up against the tide of the Taliban advance.Estimates indicate that 22,174 Humvees, 634 M1117 armored cars, 115 Maxx Pros trucks, and 549,118 gatling gun, attack rifles, and pistols were delivered by the United States to the Afghan federal government over the past 20 years.In addition, some 33 Black Hawk helicopters, 23 Super Tucano fighter jets, and 4 C-130 transport airplane were likewise delivered to the Afghan Air Force.In addition, other assistance equipment was provided, consisting of some 16,035 sets of night vision safety glasses, 162,043 radios, and some 8,000 trucks.While much of this military devices was withdrawn throughout the Trump administration, when in July 2020 the US force was lowered from 13,000 soldiers to 8,600, the vast bulk of US weaponry stayed in the country in its rash withdrawal.This news comes at the same time that Germany authorized the shipment of Leopard tanks and the United States of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, which could result in a similar situation where Russia will likewise access Western weaponry if they win fights against the safeguarding forces.In addition, Russia today sent a warship armed with unstoppable hypersonic rockets towards the US coast in an uneasy program of force.The guided-missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov has actually been carefully monitored by NATO navies on its first voyage equipped with 6,670 mph Zircon weapons.An unconfirmed report from Russias Telegram channel states it was found on the radar in neutral waters of the Atlantic Ocean, at a reliable salvo launch range from the United States coast.

It ought to be clarified that the nuclear-capable Mach 9 missiles on the frigate have a reported series of 625 miles.US weapons recorded by the Taliban (Photo web recreation)With info from Derecha Diario