No country has so far officially recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan’s government due to their hard-line policies. The drastic erosion of women’s rights continues.

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    1 month ago

    Don’t worry, plenty of online leftists will still tell you how sweet and wholesome the Taliban is, or play “Whatabout” games.

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    1 month ago

    Interesting how the article fails to mention the $7 billion that the US looted from the Afghan central bank when they pulled out.

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      1 month ago

      Probably because it was the USAs money in the first place. You can’t loot your own checking account.

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        1 month ago

        It’s weird that you would assume something incorrect like that, when you can just google it and find that the money was

        the reserves of Afghanistan’s commercial banks and ordinary people’s savings

        It’s literally the business and personal savings of the Afghani people, inaccessible to them for over 2 years now.

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          1 month ago

          Bro, you must be living in lala land if you think for a micro second that the Taliban would let the Afghan people keep that money.

          They would instantly take the money and buy more bombs and weapons that would hurt more people. Probably buy them from Russia or North Korea. Make it worse for Ukraine.

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            1 month ago

            Even if your cartoonish depiction of the Taliban was true, it is not a good justification for the US to freeze all of the bank accounts in Afghanistan.

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              1 month ago

              First of all, it’s not all banks. It’s Afghan banks located in the United States. Secondly, they are far from being cartoonish.