Posted on 01/07/2025 6:35:14 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
It is common knowledge that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete disaster, but lots of people do not know that the Biden administration has been sending cash to the Taliban every week since then.
When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, our troops were ordered to leave behind $7 billion worth of military equipment which ended up in the hands of the Taliban. According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Taliban also likely gained access to approximately $57.6 million in funds that the United States had provided to the former Afghan government. But that was just the beginning of the financial atrocities.
“According to an August 2023 World Bank report, the UN has purchased, transported, and transferred $2.9 billion in U.S. currency to Afghanistan since August 2021,” said a SIGAR report published in January. “This included $1.8 billion provided in 2022 and $1.1 billion provided in 2023, as of August 2023.”
“The U.S. is the largest international donor to Afghanistan, having provided about $2.6 billion in funding to the UN, other international organizations (PIOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Afghanistan since August 2021,” said the SIGAR report.
The U.N., which handles the transportation of these payments, claims it needs to send cash because the country does not have the infrastructure to wire funds.
<< if the United States suspended these weekly payments, we would see signs of the Taliban and other Afghanistan-based terror groups crumbling within a year. The $40 million weekly cash shipments have stabilized the Afghani, making the Taliban’s newly printed currency the world’s best performer >>
Cut off in 2 weeks!
Money we borrowed from China....................
It infuriates me that we give money to any country, but especially to terrorist-controlled countries. I loathe our government. We can aid vets and battered women and children, but we can send money to a turd infested cesspool.
Usually we follow up these types of observations with a rhetorical question like “What could go wrong?”.
In this case we follow up with the serious, literal question “What could go right? “ with this kind of insanity.
“because the country does not have the infrastructure to wire funds.” I wonder why.
In every conflict around the world we are arming and funding both sides.
The question is WHY ?
WHY would we send US CASH to a country we fought a war with for twenty years?
Similar to WHY did Obama fly plane loads of US CASH to Iran?
What do they have on the Biden(Afghanistan) and Obama(Iran) administration to pay them in CASH?
Here’s hoping!
That can’t be true.
Some FReepers labeled such talk akin to fake news. Must be fake. /s
Infuriating.
Which we will most likely never repay.
This proves the left is incompetent and corrupt.
The rat party and their puppet masters in the world enslavement forum hate America. It’s as simple as that.
Our tax dollars are going a lot of places they shouldn’t.
Just like revord amounts of our energy, our weapons, our service personnel...
Obviously.
Biden and his band of Demonrats are truly members of LEFT, whose SINISTER hands are strangling our economy while funding our most dangerous enemies!
In Latin, the word for “left” is “sinister”, and that word truly describes the nature of Biden’s administration!
That does not surprise me one iota.
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