Someone proved that the Biden picture for the Afghanistan crisis was taken in fact many months ago :
https://nitter.net/ToddFoxtrot/status/1427134159395475459
And the Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki takes a week off ?:
https://nitter.net/Techno_Fog/status/1427092212618305536
And if you add the fact that the Taliban just had to do a walk in the park to collect multi-million dollar war drones, a hundred of Humvee, who knows how meany weapons and ammunition and what not :
https://nitter.net/JulianRoepcke/status/1425751441629716485
What evil plan is going on behind the scenes ?
dozens of apache helicopters have been pilfered.
The Taliban don't know how to fly them, let alone maintain them. They will be sold on the black market I suspect. Also, another reason why we now have to spend $X billion on a new, improved attack helicopter. Yay, Military-Industrial Complex.
The Afghan army defected in large numbers, and the DO know how to fly them.
While your first sentence is correct, I doubt that the Afghan army was flying US Apaches. According to an article my DuckDuckGo search pulled up, they were (at least) flying Mi-35s https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/08/13/helicopter-seized-by-taliban-has-been-symbol-of-afghan-conflict-for-decades.html
[edit: didn't think that flying skills are applicable across platforms, duh. Good luck getting parts though.]