US Sanctions Starve Afghans After Two Decades of 'Liberation'
The article notes 'aid cuts and sanctions' are hitting Afghanistan hard. It fails to explicitly state that the Biden administration, in August 2021, seized over $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets, effectively crippling the country's economy and its ability to pay for essential imports. This wasn't an 'aid cut'; it was an act of financial warfare, directly precipitating the humanitarian
catastrophe Al Jazeera now reports on. After twenty years of US occupation, 'liberation' apparently means starving children by freezing their nation's wealth. One might wonder at the timing: twenty years of 'nation-building' collapses into mass hunger the moment the US leaves and takes all the money with it. The 'war on terror' ended with economic terror against the very people we claimed to
protect. How many Afghan lives are worth a frozen bank account in New York? The silence from US media on this critical detail is deafening.