CDZ Starving Afghanistan

[Tom Paine 1949]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines. That has allowed the media to ignore that many more innocents are dying in the Saudi War & blockade of Yemen ports and from the END OF WAR SANCTIONS the U.S. imposed on Afghanistan. Here is a report on the terrible situation in Afghanistan:

Biden’s Sanctions …
22.8 million Afghans – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of central bank reserves

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”

But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country …

Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

The most destructive economic sanction is the U.S. confiscation of more than $7 billion in international reserves belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank. The reserves are needed for essential imports such as food and medicine, but also for the central bank to play its normal role in maintaining a functioning financial system and economic stability….

As a result of all this economic disruption, including the loss of billions of dollars of aid, 22.8 million people – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under 5 "at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition," according to UNICEF.

It is not clear why the Biden administration has imposed such devastating sanctions on Afghanistan. The sanctions do not seem to be directed at overthrowing the Taliban. Rather, it could be that the Biden administration, after its bad political experience with the military withdrawal, does not want to take the risk of appearing to be “soft” on the Taliban.

This is a political miscalculation as well as a moral one….

Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan threaten to kill more civilians than two decades of war

Biden administration's hold on billions of Afghanistan's central bank reserves is punishing starving civilians and will come back to haunt America.

www.usatoday.com

See also: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020922_Milibrand_Testimony3.pdf

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines. That has allowed the media to ignore that many more innocents are dying in the Saudi War & blockade of Yemen ports and from the END OF WAR SANCTIONS the U.S. imposed on Afghanistan. Here is a report on the terrible situation in Afghanistan:

Biden’s Sanctions …
22.8 million Afghans – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of central bank reserves

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”

But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country …

Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

The most destructive economic sanction is the U.S. confiscation of more than $7 billion in international reserves belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank. The reserves are needed for essential imports such as food and medicine, but also for the central bank to play its normal role in maintaining a functioning financial system and economic stability….

As a result of all this economic disruption, including the loss of billions of dollars of aid, 22.8 million people – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under 5 "at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition," according to UNICEF.

It is not clear why the Biden administration has imposed such devastating sanctions on Afghanistan. The sanctions do not seem to be directed at overthrowing the Taliban. Rather, it could be that the Biden administration, after its bad political experience with the military withdrawal, does not want to take the risk of appearing to be “soft” on the Taliban.

This is a political miscalculation as well as a moral one….

Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan threaten to kill more civilians than two decades of war

Biden administration's hold on billions of Afghanistan's central bank reserves is punishing starving civilians and will come back to haunt America.

www.usatoday.com

See also: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020922_Milibrand_Testimony3.pdf

First of all this is forbidden to speak about. Afghanistan was Putin's fault period

The disruption of world food supplies will create a big crisis within a yr

If DJT was prez, this thread would not exist

 

[alang1216]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines. That has allowed the media to ignore that many more innocents are dying in the Saudi War & blockade of Yemen ports and from the END OF WAR SANCTIONS the U.S. imposed on Afghanistan. Here is a report on the terrible situation in Afghanistan:

Biden’s Sanctions …
22.8 million Afghans – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of central bank reserves

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”

But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country …

Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

The most destructive economic sanction is the U.S. confiscation of more than $7 billion in international reserves belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank. The reserves are needed for essential imports such as food and medicine, but also for the central bank to play its normal role in maintaining a functioning financial system and economic stability….

As a result of all this economic disruption, including the loss of billions of dollars of aid, 22.8 million people – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under 5 "at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition," according to UNICEF.

It is not clear why the Biden administration has imposed such devastating sanctions on Afghanistan. The sanctions do not seem to be directed at overthrowing the Taliban. Rather, it could be that the Biden administration, after its bad political experience with the military withdrawal, does not want to take the risk of appearing to be “soft” on the Taliban.

This is a political miscalculation as well as a moral one….

Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan threaten to kill more civilians than two decades of war

Biden administration's hold on billions of Afghanistan's central bank reserves is punishing starving civilians and will come back to haunt America.

www.usatoday.com

See also: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020922_Milibrand_Testimony3.pdf

Obama is still being faulted for returning Iran's money to Iran as part of the Nuclear deal. So long as the Right wields money as a political weapon this sort of thing will continue.

 

[jwoodie]

But getting out was the right move.

You forgot to mention the pesky details of when and how.

 

[MarathonMike]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines. That has allowed the media to ignore that many more innocents are dying in the Saudi War & blockade of Yemen ports and from the END OF WAR SANCTIONS the U.S. imposed on Afghanistan. Here is a report on the terrible situation in Afghanistan:

Biden’s Sanctions …
22.8 million Afghans – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of central bank reserves

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”

But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country …

Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

The most destructive economic sanction is the U.S. confiscation of more than $7 billion in international reserves belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank. The reserves are needed for essential imports such as food and medicine, but also for the central bank to play its normal role in maintaining a functioning financial system and economic stability….

As a result of all this economic disruption, including the loss of billions of dollars of aid, 22.8 million people – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under 5 "at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition," according to UNICEF.

It is not clear why the Biden administration has imposed such devastating sanctions on Afghanistan. The sanctions do not seem to be directed at overthrowing the Taliban. Rather, it could be that the Biden administration, after its bad political experience with the military withdrawal, does not want to take the risk of appearing to be “soft” on the Taliban.

This is a political miscalculation as well as a moral one….

Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan threaten to kill more civilians than two decades of war

Biden administration's hold on billions of Afghanistan's central bank reserves is punishing starving civilians and will come back to haunt America.

www.usatoday.com

See also: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020922_Milibrand_Testimony3.pdf

I'm glad that you agree that Biden has totally f*ked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan and created a much larger problem.

 

[rupol2000]

You're contradicting yourself.

They generally betrayed America's cause since the Reagan era to liberate the Northern Alliance. The territories occupied by the Taliban are not just starving, they are being subjected to genocide.

Why then are you blaming everything on Putin, you cretin? These are the consequences of the crime of the left and the trumpsters.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

The U.S. — under both Democratic and Republican Administrations — spent in total $2.3 trillion on our Afghan adventure, much of it going to the U.S. military and arms merchants, to contractors and corrupt politicians. Americans as a whole seem anxious to wash their hands of all responsibility to those damaged and left behind. Indeed, the only thing Americans seem interested in is making ultra-narrow partisan political criticisms.

'War rarely goes as planned': New report tallies trillions US spent in Afghanistan, Iraq

The U.S. government has become less transparent over time about the costs of post -9/11 conflicts as officials stopped reporting or classified information.

www.usatoday.com

 

[rupol2000]

spent in total $2.3 trillion in their Afghan adventure

They did it right. They invested in the strength of America and Freedom. The trumsters and leftists fucked it up. The Taliban have long been defeated.

Now they in debt

 

[RodISHI]

Send seeds for food so they can plant those Poppy fields and have sustenance.

 

[rupol2000]

Who will pay for 9/11?

The Americans were humiliated, people died, then soldiers died. They defeated the Taliban and it remains only to hand them over to an international tribunal. But then the left and the trumpsters came, let them go and gave them the lands conquered by America. Who will pay for this? Part of the...

www.usmessageboard.com

 

[Donald H]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines.

Yes, there's a point to make on America's treatement of the people of Afghanistan. But it's all by the same American president.

You're been told time after time Tom that the withdrawal of a defeated army from Afghanistan, was the greatest withdrawal in recorded history.

But then you always run from any discussion.

On anything?

We could use your intelligence on the Ritter thread now. It suits your domestic agenda.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

You're been told time after time Tom that the withdrawal of a defeated army from Afghanistan, was the greatest withdrawal in recorded history.
But then you always run from any discussion.

I don’t even know what you are talking about here. Why would I respond when you make your points so poorly?

 

[Rogue AI]

One more nail in the coffin of Western economic exploitation. While nobody will jump to Afghanistan's aid, many will stand on the corpses of starved Afghani children to decry the evils of Western sanctions, whether warranted or not.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama is still being faulted for returning Iran's money to Iran as part of the Nuclear deal. So long as the Right wields money as a political weapon this sort of thing will continue.

Who is mail in President today and why is he following WEF orders to begin liquidating humanity?

 

[surada]

Putin’s mad, bloody, now faltering invasion of Ukraine has understandably dominated world news headlines. That has allowed the media to ignore that many more innocents are dying in the Saudi War & blockade of Yemen ports and from the END OF WAR SANCTIONS the U.S. imposed on Afghanistan. Here is a report on the terrible situation in Afghanistan:

Biden’s Sanctions …
22.8 million Afghans – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of central bank reserves

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”

But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country …

Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

The most destructive economic sanction is the U.S. confiscation of more than $7 billion in international reserves belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank. The reserves are needed for essential imports such as food and medicine, but also for the central bank to play its normal role in maintaining a functioning financial system and economic stability….

As a result of all this economic disruption, including the loss of billions of dollars of aid, 22.8 million people – more than half the population – are facing acute food insecurity. They include a million children under 5 "at risk of dying due to severe acute malnutrition," according to UNICEF.

It is not clear why the Biden administration has imposed such devastating sanctions on Afghanistan. The sanctions do not seem to be directed at overthrowing the Taliban. Rather, it could be that the Biden administration, after its bad political experience with the military withdrawal, does not want to take the risk of appearing to be “soft” on the Taliban.

This is a political miscalculation as well as a moral one….

Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan threaten to kill more civilians than two decades of war

Biden administration's hold on billions of Afghanistan's central bank reserves is punishing starving civilians and will come back to haunt America.

www.usatoday.com

See also: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/020922_Milibrand_Testimony3.pdf

The problem for the Saudis and Yemen go back to the bombing of the USS Cole when various terrorists moved to Yemen.. Lots of Al Qaeda and Boko Haram even before the Houthis .

 

[Rogue AI]

The problem for the Saudis and Yemen go back to the bombing of the USS Cole when various terrorists moved to Yemen.. Lots of Al Qaeda and Boko Haram even before the Houthis .

You need to back that assertion of Boko Haram operating outside of Africa.

 

[B. Kidd]

Sounds like an Afghani internal problem.

Like Ukraine, why should I care?