"In the weeks after the Taliban consolidated power in Kabul, the Biden administration placed a freeze on Afghanistan’s foreign reserves and prevented international groups from providing aid to the war-torn country.

Biden later signed an executive order to seize and divide the frozen funds, worth over $7 billion, earmarking half for the families of the victims of the 11 September attacks.

As a result of the White House’s unilateral measures, over half of Afghanistan’s population are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under the age of 5, who are “at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition,” as reported by UNICEF.

According to the country’s health ministry, over 13,000 Afghan babies born since January 2022 have died due to the collapse of the country’s healthcare sector."

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Biden later signed an executive order to seize and divide the frozen funds, worth over $7 billion, earmarking half for the families of the victims of the 11 September attacks.

    The person telling you to vote for Biden will also call you a tankie who did the holodomor. Their death toll won't register with them because they don't see those 13k Afghan babies as humans.

    • SupFBI [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Brown skin and not on TV news 24/7. MSM could turn Zelensky into a villain and Putin a hero in just a few days of blathering about it on TV. People have the memory of a goldfish. I hate it here.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        unfair to goldfish who have been shown to recognize individual humans and remember tricks for as long as six months

  • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    In 5 years the same government doing this reprehensible shit will pump out dozens of films about how sad the troops were after they murdered a bunch of Afghan children. Once again, :amerikkka: deserves worse than death

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    3 years ago

    Fortunately no Ukrainians were reported as dead or in danger in Afghanistan.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    No words. What a vast ocean of tragedy could have been avoided by someone in the "return to civility" administration lifting a goddamn finger.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    thinking about how Germany is evicting Afghan refugees to make space for Ukrainians

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It really is bewildering. Who gives a fuck about the 9/11 victims in '22? Like, the idea of any money going to them at this point is weird, and engaging in outright piracy to take it from the Afghanis is just bizzare.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Give me your tired, your poor, your brave white Ukrainians yearning to breathe free. But Afghans? Fuck the wretched refuse of that brown teeming shore.

    facing acute food insecurity

    That's a funny way to write "facing starvation".

  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    i'm assuming the 15% are the kleptocrats

    btw the USA's theft of their national wealth has caused people to sell organs to get enough money for food