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UN: Afghanistan's economy is collapsing `before our eyes'
ABC News / Disney ^ | December 10, 2021 | By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press

Posted on 12/10/2021 11:15:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. humanitarian chief warned that Afghanistan’s economic collapse “is happening before our eyes” and urged the international community to take action to stop "the freefall” before it leads to more deaths.

Martin Griffiths said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that donor nations need to agree that in addition to emergency humanitarian aid they need to support basic services for the Afghan people including education, hospitals, electricity and paying civil servants — and they must inject liquidity into the economy which has seen the banking system “”pretty well shut down.”

“We’re seeing the economic collapse being exponential,” he said. “It’s getting more and more dire by the week.”

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; brandon; failure
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1 posted on 12/10/2021 11:15:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the First World collapses, the Third World dies.

This is just the first domino of the Great Reset.


2 posted on 12/10/2021 11:16:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What economy?


3 posted on 12/10/2021 11:17:34 AM PST by caver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am shocked that a nation with negligible GDP and unstable political climate is failing.

Imagine such an event after the American taxpayers and state department stopped paying billions for everything and China replaced their #1 cash crop with a cheap synthetic drug.

Shocked!


4 posted on 12/10/2021 11:18:51 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No. Not our monkeys, not our circus. Don’t care. Let China do it.


5 posted on 12/10/2021 11:19:02 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Afghanistan: US economy collapsing before our eyes.


6 posted on 12/10/2021 11:19:46 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Afghanistan: US economy collapsing before our eyes.


7 posted on 12/10/2021 11:19:46 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Support them? Why? Doesn’t someone own or market their minerals?


8 posted on 12/10/2021 11:20:10 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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9 posted on 12/10/2021 11:20:24 AM PST by Veggie Todd (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No foolin’? Huh... I wonder who could have predicted that...

You know... besides literally everyone with a working forebrain that passed their Econ 101 course.


10 posted on 12/10/2021 11:21:22 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks like Afghanistan is missing US money and had reverted to being Afghanistan again.


11 posted on 12/10/2021 11:24:07 AM PST by chuckee (t)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let them sell some of the “donated” US equipment.


12 posted on 12/10/2021 11:30:35 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Job Interview…..

“Abdul, tell us some of your skills.”

“I can shoot at Americans.”

“Anything else?”

“I can yell at sheep.”

“Any hands-on experience?”

“I can blow up girls schools.”

“Maybe we can find you something with the Democrat party.”


13 posted on 12/10/2021 11:31:19 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: caver
What economy?

The poppy crop must have failed.

14 posted on 12/10/2021 11:33:24 AM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So?
That’s the Taliban’s problem.
Not our circus. Not our monkeys.


15 posted on 12/10/2021 11:33:27 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let all the Muslim nations help Afghanistan. They wanted us out. Fine. Now it’s their responsibility.


16 posted on 12/10/2021 11:34:15 AM PST by POWG
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To: rigelkentaurus
Don’t care. Let China do it.

exactly. Keep their migrants out of the West, leave them alone, don't mess with their internal politics, let China loan them $Billions which will never be repaid, and eventually, they will find a suitable equilibrium.

17 posted on 12/10/2021 11:35:13 AM PST by PGR88
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To: immadashell

Neah.
Heroin has been replaced Fentanyl at a fraction of the cost.
The Taliban needs welcome the Chicoms in to exploit their resources. That will fixe everything. *evil laughter*


18 posted on 12/10/2021 11:35:45 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

it’s like we are in a race with them to see who crashes first...


19 posted on 12/10/2021 11:36:51 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t care.

Not one little bit.

L


20 posted on 12/10/2021 11:37:23 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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