And yet the Pentagon is asking for how many millions for a new building?

A lot of the stuff we left in Afghanistan was new or new(ish) equipment, arms, ammo, etc. It was reported that we had to leave it behind because the Taliban wasn't about to extend the deadline for our egress. Yes, all of that stuff should've been destroyed, but I believe it was planned by th Cabal to stonewall our pullout to the last possible month, giving Afghanistan the equipment they'd need to fend off another invasion and use it against th dissenting population, and lastly, to sell it to the highest bidder (China). That's the thinking, anyway.

I also believe Trump knew what would happen, so he let it happen to highlight some things. It highlighted just how ineffective our military is at nation building and training foreign militaries. It also helped highlight the corruption of the Military Industrial Complex, and also helped to highlight the Buyden Admin's coziness with China. Everyone knew who would swoop in and start buying up the massive amounts of equipment we left, before the pull out was even planned. Buyden tried saying the pull out was Trump's idea (which is true), but everyone knew it was Buyden's people who stonewalled it to the last possible moment. But it matters not. None of the tactical vehicles we left behind could really be used by the Afghans because they didn't have the technical knowledge and China isn't gaining any new info on how to defeat our tactical vehicles. The newest stuff we had over there was brought home. Stealth helos, upgraded Abrams and Bradleys, etc. If you know how to defeat one type of helicopter or one type of armored vehicle, you know how to defeat them all. It's a negligible gain for China.

Yes, we left arms and ammo, but not in numbers the Afghans could really use against the people to any real effectiveness. Not any more effective than the arms and ammo they already were using. It wouldn't surprise me if some industrious soldiers and Marines removed firing pins before stacking all those rifles so neatly for the Taliban, too. The Taliban was rumored to have not been able to use most of the arms we left behind, so this seems like a likely reason why, to me.

Besides that, it is ALWAYS a logistical nightmare for any military to take equipment back home after a prolonged engagement like Afghanistan was. 20 yrs of occupation means having to bring back 20 yrs worth of equipment. With near daily transports of said equipment, it would've taken about as long to bring it all back. So it is, in fact, cheaper to destroy it or just leave it for the foreign Nat'l population to use. Especially for a hyper industrialized nation like the U.S. And with near yearly upgrades, what we have now is better than what we left behind. So again, a negligible gain for anyone but the U.S.

Every military in the history of armed combat has been faced with the same logistical problem. And every military in the history of armed combat has come to the same conclusion: leave it behind.

But now we decry pollution and climate change when we contributed substantially to the pollution.

The dogs they left behind were in good shape