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Should the World Bank and International Monetary Fund provide financial aid to the Taliban government in Afghanistan?

After the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 the Taliban seized control of the country. In response the International Monetary Fund and major international donors to the country blocked the Taliban’s access to billions of dollars in charitable bank accounts. More than half of Afghanistan’s annual $5 billion budget is from foreign aid. Despite its puritanical brand of Islam, the Taliban controls the world’s largest opium operation, earning about $460 million a year from taxes on the sale of heroin moving through their territories alone, the U.N. says.…  

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 @Scoopeso  from Florida  answered…3yrs3Y

I agree with the final statement. That the Taliban Government shouldn't be recognized by foreign governments. Not exactly ignoring what they do but not supporting them in a way that forces them come to the table, with a plate in hand.

 @974X2Z7 from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

They should, but they should make sure somehow that the financial aid is going towards humanitarian aid rather than the oppression of people and the financing of the Taliban's military.

 @8Z7F73C from Massachusetts  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes if they promise to protect women’s rights.

 @8YX87QP from Michigan  answered…4yrs4Y

Not unless they promise to give equal rights to all.

 @8Z6KQX5 from Massachusetts  answered…4yrs4Y

No, Afghanistan is a Sunni nationalist state with a brutality a Terrian government and has some of the most terroristic organizations in the world, we should not allow the supplementation of such evil.

 @8Z6FMKB from West Virginia  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, they are the legitimate government.

  @7L8WQDL from Kentucky  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but we should do a airlift of food, water, and medical supplies to citizens trapped in Afghanistan

 @8YWDHRY from Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

No. but we are responsible for the inception of the Taliban and as a government we must learn to work with this "Frankenstein's monster"

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Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

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Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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