Taliban will turn to black market sales of US weapons, also sell opiates

[Scott Downey]

Russia calls on US to release Afghan central bank reserves
Russia has called on the US to release Afghan central bank reserves that Washington blocked after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul earlier this month.

“If our Western colleagues are actually worried about the fate of the Afghan people, then we must not create additional problems for them by freezing gold and foreign exchange reserves,” said the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

The US must urgently unfreeze these assets, he said on the state-run Rossiya 24 network, “to bolster the rate of the collapsing national currency”. Kabulov added that without doing so the new Afghan authorities will turn to “the trafficking of illegal opiates” and “sell on the black market the weapons” abandoned by the Afghan army and the US.

Rockets fired towards Afghanistan’s Kabul airport: Live News | Taliban News | Al Jazeera

 

[Wingman68]

Russia calls on US to release Afghan central bank reserves
Russia has called on the US to release Afghan central bank reserves that Washington blocked after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul earlier this month.

“If our Western colleagues are actually worried about the fate of the Afghan people, then we must not create additional problems for them by freezing gold and foreign exchange reserves,” said the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

The US must urgently unfreeze these assets, he said on the state-run Rossiya 24 network, “to bolster the rate of the collapsing national currency”. Kabulov added that without doing so the new Afghan authorities will turn to “the trafficking of illegal opiates” and “sell on the black market the weapons” abandoned by the Afghan army and the US.

Rockets fired towards Afghanistan’s Kabul airport: Live News | Taliban News | Al Jazeera

Russia & China……licking their lips, loving every moment.

 

[Hannahande]

I think its not a good idea too to release all the reserves. Doing so will give them more power and may result in a bad situation.

 

[Scott Downey]

I think its not a good idea too to release all the reserves. Doing so will give them more power and may result in a bad situation.

Biden may want to buy them off, perhaps try to keep the Taliban from taking the remaining Americans he left there and giving them to Isis

 

[carpro]

If you were watching all this as a disinterested spectator, you might think American forces were defeated in battle and ran for their lives, leaving behind all their equipment and abandoning their countrymen in their headlong rush to escape..

 

[Reynolds]

Russia calls on US to release Afghan central bank reserves
Russia has called on the US to release Afghan central bank reserves that Washington blocked after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul earlier this month.

“If our Western colleagues are actually worried about the fate of the Afghan people, then we must not create additional problems for them by freezing gold and foreign exchange reserves,” said the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

The US must urgently unfreeze these assets, he said on the state-run Rossiya 24 network, “to bolster the rate of the collapsing national currency”. Kabulov added that without doing so the new Afghan authorities will turn to “the trafficking of illegal opiates” and “sell on the black market the weapons” abandoned by the Afghan army and the US.

Rockets fired towards Afghanistan’s Kabul airport: Live News | Taliban News | Al Jazeera

With 100% certainty.