• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Aren’t the Taliban broke, because Karzai spent two decades bankrupting the county while president?

    Also, too…

    Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid This article is more than 4 years old

    Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people (spoilers: this never materialized) and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of Taliban

    The last thing the US did before leaving was to clean out the country’s foreign currency reserves. This resulted in an enormous famine, skyrocketing child mortality, and a string of infrastructure failures as foreign trade ground to a halt.

    Very similar to what the US did in Iraq and Libya after officially withdrawing.