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Er kära Biden har besluta att frysa Afghanistans centralbanks reservfond man har hos banker i USA och avdela stora summor till offren för 9/11 som man påstår Talibanerna bär ansvar för:Team Biden medlemmen, Jake Sullivan, har garanterat mycket på sitt bord nu så det var onekligen intressant att höra honom prata om Ryssland m.m. (Lite skillnad i kvalité mot Michael Flynn, eller John Bolton, om vi säger så.)
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivers update on Russia Ukraine crisis
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivers update on Russia Ukraine crisis
Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds
The president intends to use the Afghan central bank’s assets to fund needs in Afghanistan amid a humanitarian disaster, and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/politics/taliban-afghanistan-911-families-frozen-funds.html
Förutom det grymma i att förhindra att Afghanistan får tillgång till medlen i tider där landet står inför en katastrofal massvält är det helt emot varje form av rättslig princip enl. folkrätten. Man är helt fokuserade på att baxa igenom detta ändå:
/.../First, in his executive order on Friday morning, he used emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to consolidate all Da Afghanistan Bank assets in the United States in a segregated account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That has blocked them, but the Afghanistan central bank still owns them.Allt detta kommer att slå undan benen helt för Afghanistans centralbank och fullständig grusa alla planer på att stabilisera landets finansiella system:
Second, officials have discussed then using a provision of the Federal Reserve Act that permits disposing of property belonging to the central bank of a foreign nation — so long as it has the blessing of someone the secretary of state has recognized as being “the accredited representative” of that foreign country.
But deciding who qualifies as such a person, at a time when Afghanistan’s former government no longer exists, has raised significant complications. It remained unclear what solution Biden administration officials had settled on and whether the name of any person or people they deem as such would be disclosed for security reasons, like possibly endangering family members still in Afghanistan.
In recent weeks, a longtime member of the bank’s board, Dr. Shah Mohammad Mehrabi, had argued that the U.S. government should instead let Da Afghanistan Bank try to restart some of that work and carefully watch to make sure the funds did not reach the Taliban.Biden-administration har visat sig med all önskvärd tydlighet att vara en sadistisk kleptokratisk kriminell organisation och inget annat.
In an interview, Dr. Mehrabi — who is also an economics professor at Montgomery College in Maryland — contended that the central bank should be seen as independent of the now Taliban-led Afghan government. He said that many civil servants there knew how to run the bank, and that depriving the bank of the funds it needed to maintain price stability would lead to runs on commercial banks, mass defaulting on loans and ultimately broader disaster.
“You’re talking about moving toward a total collapse of the banking system,” he said. “I think it’s a shortsighted view.”


Ja, med denne jeppe till chef över kärnkraften så lär ju inte Putin direkt ligga sömnläs av skräck om nätterna