U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths issued a dire warning about the crisis in Afghanistan. Thanks to the Brandon administration’s failures which handed the keys to the Taliban, their barbarian stone-age ways of running things have the nation’s economy on the brink of collapse. The situation is so bad that the UN declares, economic collapse “is happening before our eyes.” The people in the street will starve. Our alleged Minister of State, Antony Blinken, is blinking in disbelief at how bad the situation really is. He still whimpers any time he hears the word “Saigon.”
Afghanistan collapsing
Griffiths told left-leaning media distributor Associated Press on Thursday, December 9, that every solvent nation in the UN needs to cough up cash, and quick.
Thanks to Blinky’s premature withdrawal, the economy is in “free-fall.” Griffiths thought that “Afghanistan could get through the winter on pure humanitarian assistance” but he was wrong, he admits.
Emergency humanitarian aid isn’t going to cut it. The UN is forced to step in and pay for “basic services.” The Afghan people need things like “education, hospitals, and electricity.”
That means the UN member nations will be “paying civil servants.” Taliban civil servants. Under ISIS-K and Taliban joint rule, the banking system in Afghanistan “pretty well shut down.” Experts are frantic. “We’re seeing the economic collapse being exponential. It’s getting more and more dire by the week. The liquidity issue must be settled by the end of the year.”
Start loading up the pallets of cash, Griffiths suggests. Money “must be funneled to front-line service workers during the winter.” Right now in Afghanistan, “4 million children are out of school and 9 million more will be soon and the reason is simple — 70% of teachers haven’t been paid since August.” That means the UN will have to pay them, with your tax dollars.
“And if we don’t make that happen, all that discussion about the right of women and girls going to school becomes academic.” Even if the teachers do get paid, girls still won’t be going to school and they know it, but they will pay the Taliban anyway. Instead of the money getting to the teachers, they’ll use it to buy missiles for the nifty fighter jets Joe Biden gave them.
A wake up call
Griffiths was intent on building a sense of urgency in his audience. “So, my message today is a wake-up call about the humanitarian consequences of an economic collapse and the need to take urgent action.”
Today’s urgent action wouldn’t be needed if Blinky didn’t blink back in August. That’s when the “The Taliban overran most of Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces were in the final stages of their chaotic withdrawal.” They also freed a whole prison full of Guantanamo bay grade terrorists.
On August 15, Taliban forces entered Kabul, Afghanistan, “without any resistance from the Afghan army or the country’s president.” Blinky had His Wisdom Joe Biden convinced that the locals could defend themselves, so pulled our troops out before evacuating civilian personnel. That turned out to be a huge miscalculation.
“The Taliban initially promised tolerance and inclusiveness toward women and ethnic minorities but their actions so far, including renewed restrictions on women and the appointment of an all-male government, have been met with dismay by the international community.” Dragging dissidents from their homes and shooting them is frowned on also. They like to do that too.
The Afghanistan economy took a huge hit when Biden seized $9 billion in central bank reserves, “most of which is held in the United States.” That’s a down-payment on the planes, tanks and helicopters they ended up with. Then the International Monetary Fund “blocked about $450 million because of a ‘lack of clarity’ about a new government.”
Not making things any easier, “Taliban leadership has banned all foreign currency transactions.” Griffiths concluded by noting “the U.N. would like to see $700 million come through by January 31 which would be earmarked for services to help the Afghan people.”
