The latest audacity by America towards Afghanistan is their continued holding of seized Afghanistan bank accounts…
The Taliban Are Still Seeking Afghanistan’s Frozen Assets
So writes Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O’Donnell. With about $7 billion in Afghan central-bank assets still frozen in the US, O’Donnell writes, the Biden administration has advanced a plan to set aside half as compensation for 9/11 victims. Given the Taliban’s terrorist links, opacity as to where money would go if it were given to their government, and fears that Taliban officials would simply pocket it, O’Donnell writes that no one seems eager to hand over the cash.
…and this is outrageous because seizing that money has triggered a famine…
As the conflict in Ukraine enters its second month, the humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan is quickly becoming a forgotten crisis. The gains achieved over the past two decades – including women’s rights and education for all – are now at risk more than ever.
International aid agency World Vision warns that almost nine million people are already on the brink of slipping into famine, while more than 130,000 children could die with the country plunging into an economic collapse as the majority of international aid funding has ceased and billions of Afghan private assets remain frozen. Girls’ and women’ rights continue to be in grave danger as teenage girls, grade six and up, are no longer allowed to pursue an education.
“Afghanistan’s crisis has gotten worse since the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Attention has turned away, and the country has rapidly slipped into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Failure to act immediately will have grave consequences. We’re already seeing families selling their children or marrying them off. Many more children will suffer and die if Afghanistan is forgotten. We need to act now, release frozen funds, and agree to fund long-term development. Time is running out,” said Asuntha Charles, World Vision Afghanistan’s National Director.
…I’m not sure bombing a bronze age people back to the stone age and then stealing all their international funds after they have the audacity of kicking us occupiers out of their country that then plunges their country into a famine helps with our moral high ground when we lecture Russia.
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If you had ever been to Afghanistan, you would realise the far from being bombed back to the stone age, there has been a enormous amount of infrastructure built over that last 20 years. Ranging from schools, hospitals, roading, power and irrigation projects, housing and all sorts of government facilities. Many, many billions of dollars worth. Probably upwards of $50 billion worth. Accompanied by lots of corruption and graft. None of it sustainable without continuing aid.
I imagine that one of the reasons why the US froze the money was because just about all of it actually came from the US taxpayer. The previous Afghan government was reliant on direct foreign aid grants for 80% of their government expenditure. Mostly from the US and the EU.
Having said that the US needs to release at least half the money, without any preconditions. Just close the book on the issue.
Release it all and close the book on the issue
lol OK babykiller
Dry your tears worrier of the internet. America has tried to resolve many things, many times, Afghanistan is not one of them. The lack of communication is not on Afghanistan, it is on America.
They said he, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t in Afghanistan. Turns out he wasn’t and America destroyed the evidence.
Fuck you cock sucker.
Swap America the Great for America the Audacious. Seems good.
audacious adjective: audacious
1 showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
“a series of audacious takeovers”.
2 showing an impudent lack of respect.
“he made an audacious remark”
The worthless moaning yanks complaining about how the popularly chosen government of Afghanistan is ‘backwards’ or ‘mean’ or ‘antidemocratic’ need to face reality.
Despite billions of dollars spent by the yanks and their Saudi buddies on destroying the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the DRA continued for more than TWO YEARS after Soviet troops withdrew, because it had genuine popular support and legitimacy.
The completely illegitimate occupational regime that the yanks put in place didn’t last two weeks.
You had your chance for a progressive, democratic Afghanistan that was kinder to women, yanks. You people destroyed it.
Despicable and should be hard to believe except it isnt.
They’re on the brink of famine, thousands addicted to heroin, along with their dogs, forgotten by a covid-obsessed bunch of tesla driving narcissists who would prefer them to just go away so they can mine out their lithium etc, is this owning nothing and being happy? if so it would be hypocritical to make any drugs illegal, oh, hang on…
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