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U.S. Destroying Afghani People in a Fit of Blind Vengeance

Red Ant Admin and Democracy Now December 1, 2021 By Barry Sheppard shared with thanks

When the U.S. left Afghanistan in August it also froze almost all foreign aid to the country.

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It has now come to light that the major part of the economy under the U.S. military and its puppet government was completely dependent on that foreign aid.

In other words, the U.S. invasion destroyed the Afghan domestic economy, which was only kept afloat by aid from outside.

The U.S. also froze the $9 billion of foreign currency reserves the Afghan central bank held in U.S. and other Western banks. That caused banks to fail across the country. The currency tumbled.

Pulling the rug of U.S.-created of foreign aid out from under the Afghani economy has left it in shambles.

^{A malnourished Afghan child is treated at a hospital in Kandahar. Photo: AFP / Murteza Khaliqi / Anadolu Agency}

The result is what UN agencies say is a looming humanitarian crisis including mass starvation of 23 million Afghans in the winter that has begun.

These actions by the United States come on top of hundreds of thousands of Afghanis (the real number is not known) killed as a result of the U.S. invasion, more maimed, and many scars left.

One of these scars – in the estimate of international health officials – that two-thirds of the Afghan people suffer mental illness.

Washington, with full bipartisan support, is making the people of Afghanistan pay for its humiliating defeat in the 20-year-old war.

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Democracy Now interviews on U.S.-caused catastrophe

A November 16 discussion conducted by Democracy Now hosts Amy Goodman and Juan González with Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, gives greater detail on the looming U.S.-caused catastrophe. Here are excerpts:

JAN EGELAND:
“I was recently in Afghanistan and I sat down with the mothers in these displacement camps around Kabul. I asked them, ‘What about the future? What do you think of the future?’

NATO foreign ministers meeting ends with veritable declaration of war on Russia

NATO foreign ministers meeting ends with veritable declaration of war 12/1/2021 in Anti-bellum shared with thanks. Illustrations and comment added

There is no transcript that includes the question-and-answer session that followed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s comments. But they can be heard HERE. Excerpts from Stoltenberg’s closing statement are featured below.

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That the NATO foreign ministers meeting was held in a member state bordering Belarus and Russia at this critical juncture is significant in its own right; that the main focus of the meeting was on Ukraine and Georgia and their “territorial integrity” is eerily reminiscent of statements and land claims last made in Europe in 1938-1939.

Stoltenberg;s comments about NATO not tolerating any nation establishing and maintaining a sphere of influence approaches the surreal given the Pentagon turning all of Europe except Belarus and Russia into satrapies under the NATO aegis.

Putin sends terrifying warning after Nato ‘cross red lines’ – ‘war becoming inevitable

In denouncing the very prospect of Russia having any influence in nations that border it and that not long ago were part of the same country, Stoltenberg became demonstrably and uncharacteristically condemnatory and bellicose, pounding the podium repeatedly.