“Just Give Us Our Money” – Taliban Threaten West With Unprecedented Migrant Crisis Unless Billions Returned From Abroad
Since the last US troops pulled out from Bagram Air Base and the international Airport in Kabul (where 13 Marines and nearly 200 Afghans were killed by a rising insurgent group called ISIS-K) China has taken the lead in providing economic aid to the Afghan people, becoming the first nation in the world to pledge humanitarian assistance to the struggling Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – as the Taliban are now calling it.
China’s foreign ministry has joined the Taliban in their demands that the US central bank and its allies in western Europe release reserve assets that legally belong to Afghanistan. But all those assets have been “frozen” by the US Treasury, which has imposed financial sanctions on the Taliban, allowing the US to effectively confiscate the money (though it will likely remain frozen for some time since the US can’t legally spend it).
But instead of directing their latest demands at the US, the Taliban are now threatening the Europeans with a very simple fact: if the west withholds the money – which in fact belongs to the Afghan people – it will trigger an inevitable humanitarian crisis that will quickly explode since the aide currently being provided to the war-torn country simply isn’t enough.
Once this happens, Afghans will start fleeing to Europe by road, by boat and by any other means, setting off another migrant crisis just as Europe is finally moving past the last one. The political ramifications could be huge: the French grapple with the rise of a new right-wing populist, and many unelected bureaucrats in Brussels fear another resurgence by the anti-migrant anti-globalist right that might succeed this time in overthrowing the globalist world order.
Tip: O.S.
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