ISSUE #98: U.S is acting like a mafia.
The US would rather starve Afghans than return their money.
We all know about the chaotic withdrawl of the US troops from Afghanistan almost a year ago, and how the Taliban took power in the Asian country.
We also know that following the infamous incident, the US froze $7 BILLION worth of Afghan central bank assets that belongs to the Afghan people, and thanks to its monopoly on the international financial system the US also succeeded in cutting off the Afghans from the global financial system which, as a result, paralyzed its economy.
Al-Qaeda leader - Ayman al-Zawahiri - was killed in a drone strike earlier this month which sparked conversations about whether the US would release the frozen funds, but the Biden administration slapped down the conversations saying the money could be used by the terror organizations.
“We just don’t have confidence that the institutions, safeguards and monitoring are in place to manage those assets responsibly,” said the US Stae Department spokesperson Ned Price.
Before we proceed further, I want to ask you something: Can there be anything more ironic than the fact that the country whose “War on Terror” has destroyed countries, killed at least 6 million innocent civilians, forced at least 38 million to leave their homes, created terror groups is expressing its concerns about the terror organizations that it created?
I bet you can’t name any.
A brief look at the US war games abroad tells us that the US doesn’t care about the terror organizations being formed/funded. If it really did, it wouldn’t have funded Afghan mujahedeen during the Cold War, it would not be funding the extremist organizations in Syria to oust Bashar al-Assad, it would not have sent tens of billions of dollars to a country that praises Nazism.
All it cares about is strengthening its unipolar global dominance.
Let’s proceed further:
“Thirty-eight million Afghan people should not be punished because a 71-year-old figurehead of al-Qaeda was living in Kabul. This money belongs to the Afghan people,” said Medea Benjamin - the co-founder of Unfreeze Afghanistan.
“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. This is unconscionable. That money has to be returned,” she continued.
“The U.S., for 20 years, built up a central bank in Afghanistan with a monitoring mechanism. It’s one of the only things that continues to exist after 20 years of U.S. occupation. And now it wants to hollow out that central bank, create a separate mechanism,” she added.
The US won’t act even when nearly 80 family members of the 9/11 victims wrote a letter to the Biden Administration to release the funds for Afghan people.
The US won’t act even when the women’s organizations in Afghanistan protested against the withholding of Afghan bank assets by the United States.
The US won’t act even when the international economists asked the US government to release the funds.
The US won’t act even when the human rights organizations urged the US to ease Afghanistan assets freeze.
The US won’t act even when 95% of the Afghans are going hungry.
The US won’t act even when a million Afghani children are at risk of dying due to malnutrition.
Can you imagine someone coming to your home, killing your family members, destroying your home, stealing your money, isolating you from any financial support from outside, and then refusing to return your money?
If this isn’t mafiaism, I don’t know what else is.
There can be no better time than this to end the US unipolar hegemony over the globe. There can be no better time than this for the multipolar world to emerge.
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