Right now, US have 48000 military vehicles, 30000 soldiers and around 81.5 million items that need to be moved from Afghanistan back to the US. However, all the exit routes for US army are either blocked or barred with obstacles.
It is being said that the total cost of items that need to be shipped is around $33 billion.
According to a news story on RT, Russia, after the imposition of sanctions by the west and especially the US is in ‘no way’ going to let the US army use its routes to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan.
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US has around 30,000 soldiers in Afghanistan. Photo: wikipedia[/caption]The route of 3000 miles passes through Afghanistan to Kazakhstan to Russia and then to north European sea. Around 75% US military equipment was supplied to Afghanistan through this channel however due political turmoil it’s unsafe to travel.
On the other hand, the second route goes through Peshawar in Pakistan to Karachi and then into the Arabian Sea.
A Retired US military official Doug McGreger, sees it as the ‘best and the fastest’ way to get out of Afghanistan.
However, due to tensions between both the countries the route itself is barred with tensions.
A third route that US consider is to airlift all items through airplanes. However, the military experts and economic experts of US oppose it because of the dangers involved to lives and economy.
As in April last year a US Boeing 747 crashed because of the heavy military equipment loaded in it ‘broke free’.
It should be noted, US was seeking an agreement with previous Afghan president Hamid Karzai to keep its forces in Afghanistan after 2014.
The former president however gave the verdict to the new Afghan president that will be elected after election to decide upon the agreement.
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