US Sanctions Starve Afghans While Biden Feeds Ukraine's War Chest
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warns of an escalating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where poverty forces families to sell their last possessions. Al-Monitor, and many others, pin this on the 'Taliban's return to power.' Conveniently omitted, however, is the catastrophic impact of the US seizing an estimated $7 billion in Afghanistan's central bank assets in February 2022,
effectively crippling a nation already ravaged by two decades of US occupation. This isn't just 'economic recovery buckling'; it's economic strangulation, carefully implemented by Washington. Instead of addressing the famine *we* exacerbated, the Biden administration has been busy greenlighting billions in aid to other conflicts. One might wonder if the 'rules-based order' applies differently when
the US is the one holding the purse strings and plunging millions into starvation. How many 'humanitarian crises' will it take for the West to acknowledge its role in creating them?