The Biden administration has ruled out releasing roughly $7 billion of frozen U.S.-held Afghan assets, a year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and occupation, even as the United Nations warns a staggering 95% of Afghans are not getting enough to eat. “This money belongs to the Afghan people. And the U.S., for 365 days, has been holding their money in a New York vault while Afghan people are boiling grass to eat, are selling their kidneys, are watching their children starve,” says Unfreeze Afghanistan co-founder Medea Benjamin. We also speak with Shah Mehrabi, chair of the audit committee of the central bank of Afghanistan, who says the return of funds is necessary to bring back price stability, which would put cash back into the hands of Afghan people so they can afford basic necessities.
one counterpoint i saw recently is that airstrikes have actually been scaled back substantially:
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1559257494341488644
https://airwars.org/conflict-data
Actually pulling out of Afghanistan was also big, notwithstanding the aggression the U.S. has directed towards them since. We've also seen nothing as flagrant and dangerous (risk of touching off a larger conflict) as assassinating Soleimani.
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yeah i dont know how much its just coincidence of conflict in Syria, Iraq, Somalia itself basically scaling down and how much the admin is actively ending airstrikes, because the difference is pretty substantial around some of these. i mean Biden's foreign policy is terrible, i dont know if worse than Trump admin though but thats a low bar though
Yeah they just sent like 500 troops to Somalia.