Biden is crushing the Afghan economy by seizing $3.5 billion of its people’s money and diverting the other $3.5 billion for a trust fund “to benefit the Afghan people.”
…the Afghan people will be reliant on humanitarian aid for the foreseeable future.
I can’t help but feel like this is exactly what Biden wants. They’re holding these funds in hopes that people will rise up against the Taliban if I had to guess, which is really disingenuous because it will do nothing but cause sickness, hunger, and death.
“All of the foreign exchange reserves that are in the U.S. and Europe belong to the Afghan people,” said Shah Mehrabi, an economics professor at Montgomery College who serves on the central bank’s supreme council.
This is exactly how I see it too. Theft, plain and simple.
I can’t help but feel like this is exactly what Biden wants. They’re holding these funds in hopes that people will rise up against the Taliban if I had to guess, which is really disingenuous because it will do nothing but cause sickness, hunger, and death.
This is exactly how I see it too. Theft, plain and simple.
It’s basically a siege where they want to starve the country into surrender.
A tactic as old as time. That’s essentially the backbone of what sanctions are. Attack the people in hopes they will revolt against their gov’t.