evidence: "2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week," Ojeda, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House in 2018, said in his Aug. 15 tweet. "It was never about real training. It was about military contractors and corporations raking in the profits. I am numb. I am sure everyone who spent years there feels the same!" [...] According to the Costs of War project, the Pentagon spent just over $83 billion within the last two decades specifically to support Afghan military and security forces [...] While the U.S. is credibly estimated to have spent more than $2 trillion during its involvement, only a fraction of that -- an estimated $83 billion -- was specifically spent on training and equipping Afghan military and security forces.