claim: The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
evidence: The $2 trillion figure is considered credible for the 20-year U.S engagement in Afghanistan, but it includes much more than just training and equipping the military. [...] "We did not spend $2 trillion to train and equip the Afghan military," Harrison said. "The cost of training and equipping the Afghan’s is a relatively small subset of the total cost. The vast majority of the costs for the war were for the operation of our own forces and support for our own service members." [...] Ojeda said the U.S. had "2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years.