How America is Causing a Famine in Afghanistan
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2022
- America is creating a massive famine in Afghanistan. Millions of lives are at risk. And the U.S. is unwilling to do what Afghans are asking to end it. Masuda Sultan explains.
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Imagine using the tragedy of 9/11 to justify committing over two hundred 9/11s against a defenseless country
Bruh like AOT ain't even just fiction no more 😭😭
Imagine how many votes you can get with such stunt. They would do it again if it could work 2nd time. Politicians have no spine.
Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9.11 and the American elite know that very well.
@@rafthejaf8789 "Americans know that very well." No, they don't. Americans are completely unaware of virtually everything our government does and has done for generations.
If ignorance were bliss, we would be the happiest nation on earth.
We will literally fight against any attempt to expose any reality that contradicts the prescribed fantasy.
9/11 is a perfect example of that intransigent ignorance.
Whether we support the official narrative or the craziest conspiracy of "What really happened", the one thing you will absolutely never hear about 9/11 is the fact that it was a cascade failure of literally every single agency, department, and force that the American people had spent trillions of dollars, over a span of 50 years specifically to prevent from ever being done.
Among the facts erased are that the entire airline industry was in or an the brink of bankruptcy on 9/10.
That literally every U.S. intelligence, military, and law enforcement agency completely failed to perform the very task that they were created to perform.
That, other than OBL, not one of the people or governments responsible for carrying out the greatest crime in our history was ever investigated, let alone prosecuted for its involvement in it.
That not one American official responsible for the failures of the organizations they headed was penalized for that failure. And the list goes on.
Instead, the American people rallied behind an illegitimate leader who went on an international crime spree, which his successors continued to this day.
@@rickb3650 Yes of course I agree with you, when I said "the Americans" I meant the elite not the people. The American people know almost nothing about the reality of what their country does or has done in the past. They are like the citizens of ancient Rome in that sense.
One of the countries that never seems to get a break. Afghan people are among the strongest and most resilient, but they never seem to catch a break.
True. Same with generally all of the balkans.
Don't forget Haiti and Armenia!
Well said.
@@theyeening Haiti... so much potential. So little luck.
@@Free_Palestine_419 is there any context that we are missing?
CNN, BBC, Vox, Guardian Gang be like - *I'm gonna pretend I can't see this*
Meanwhile Fox News is like - This is for the greater good! BTW it's the Democrats' fault, we had nothing to do with this!
That's because some claims are too stupidly false for even them to repeat.
@@dave_riots atleast reported
coz it's bullshiet
vox literally makin videos abt chairs instead😭
Just called both Senators and 2 congressmen in California to lift these sadistic, murderous sanctions. My father fought in Afghanistan to not only protect us but to protect these innocent people. He helped build schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure for these people. This is so incredibly shameful on our behalf.
Just read your comment, I am going to do the same with my representatives from Oregon.
American soliders fighting for imperialism do nothing to protect anybody domestically. They're occupying soldiers stealing land and resources from its people.
@@CommieApe while I am very much anti-imperialism, I cannot help what the military industrial complex paid politicians to do as far as launching a war on Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military did act as an occupying force for imperialist goals, just as the USSR’s did, and there’s no denying that. However, that does not invalidate the many positive achievements secured for the Afghan people by the US. And now it is our responsibility to ensure their stability by lifting these unnecessary and murderous sanctions just as we should lift the sanctions in Venezuela and Iran as well as end the embargo against Cuba.
Good luck with that. The warongers in Washington aren't going to do jack shit. Imagine all things we could do if we cut the pentagon budget in half. Nope nope nope. Gotta feed the warn machines pur infrastructure crumbles and right-wing authoritarian governments rise in power, we spend 800 billion yearly to terrorize the world. American Style Socialism is killing us all. Socialism for the rich only, the American way....
@@DestroyaMusic positive achievements secured for the Afghan people by the US? Replace Afghan people with native Americans/Africans and US with European colonisers and maybe you will have an idea of how stupid what you said is. Or how about Nazi Germany's many positive achievements to the advancement of technology, we can't invalidate them can we?(someone who would espouse those views would be considered a Nazi sympathizer and rightfully so). Even the most anti-war westerner can always see good in invading other countries, it was rhetoric exactly like yours that had the Afghan invasion labelled the good war, have some shame.
My heart goes out to the people of Afghanistan, who've got to deal with the fallout & Incompetence of The United States Government. Thank you Gravel Institute for bringing this issue to everyone's attention.
Infinite wars and infinite inflation are made possible by the international central banking system, which allows for the creation of money, aka, "capital" out of nowhere. 😐 It enriches the central bankers, their political allies and their corporate cronies, including the military- industrial complex even when they do not provide value to society, creating a widening wealth gap between the poor and the rich. Audit and abolish the Federal Reserve. EndTheFed.
DON"T YOU GUYS SEE, THAT IS THEIR OBJECTIVE, IF LIFE IS WORSE UNDER THE NEW LEADERS, WHO WILL THE POPULATION EVENTUALLY WANT TO RETURN BACK? WELCOME TO LIFE; REAL-LIFE; AS REAL AS IT GETS -_-"
@@choiceschoices5910 yeah, us govemnent gonna be like "Oh, so you need me? YeH alright just let get get a hold of that oil reserves, make yourself democrats, do this do that give me this, I'll take that, here you go, all new !" (Thank you for you business)
Either that or some other country will want to 'help out' in exchange for their cut at their land/ resources
Could it maybe be Russia? Seeing how it wants to expends its borders? Maybe a civil war of sorts by regular citizens against taliban? Who can really tell...
@@Robbedem inflation is how the state and their corporate conglomerate steal from the regular, working class. 😐 We have taxation to fund for social services, but this predatory class of rulers want more and more of our resources. They place us in a debt-based slave system so we succumb to our knees just trying to survive in this collapsing economy. Inflation devalues our savings and make us unprepared for retirement, emergencies, and natural as well as man-made disasters.
This is "population overshoot" wont get better anytime soon
I can tell you that US policies even in India which the US considers it’s ally, hatred towards USA is increasing day by day because of these policies.
That's because the US has used his position and advantage to fuck everyone else, that's why it is so rich, and by everyone I mean everyone, its own citizens, its two larger commercial partners and neighbours - Both Canada and Mexico are being coerced into abusive trade agreements -, and its closest allies, Germany, France, and Australia all have been interfered for example. If they have managed to take advantage of former hegemonies, they do fuck up bad with emerging powers, we Mexicans got crippled and left with a terrorist state just because they couldn't stand a trace of socialism in the continent, and Mexico is a top 20 economy, all others get an even worse side of the stick, and genocide is not off the table, I just wonder how they will keep criticizing Holodomor while justifying this.
Eh I think it's your crazy rightwing government is causing the issues in India.
What US policies do this?
@@vadimuzdensky2384 I'm trying to find any current active policies that negatively effect India as well, and all I can see is the contemplation of sanctions, not actual sanctions.
Main concerns due to close India - Russian relationship & history of arms purchases. But abstaining from UN vote against Russia invading Ukraine is on par with the same stance back in 2014 regarding Crimea. (Plus votes or abstentions favoring Russia in Czech, Chechen & other conflicts). Russian stances on Kashmir also favored India in return. It's a balancing act for them as well since maintaining ties is one potential step in possibly avoiding a complete Sino-Russian alliance in all aspects. (Need Russia to not go all in with China.)
But again, no actual sanctions and I can't see any detrimental monetary policies other than incorrectly attributing Fed reserve moves as negatively impacting Indian stock markets (that volitilty was prevalent before relatively recent moves and looks driven by international factors that, yeah, are aggregated & institutional responses to US monetary shocks...but the US isn't deliberately instigating it.)
But please, point me in the right direction if there's official US policy targeting India. I don't like sanctions that do more harm to the public rather than the elite, oligarchs or leaders. While depriving the militaries or leaders of funds to wage a war is supposed to be the goal, I don't think anyone could argue the effect of a populace uprising against whoever is in charge isn't also a consideration. Unfortunately, that's not how things usually turn out. And it can make things worse. (While not exactly the same, look at sanctions against Germany post ww1. )
stop lying
This is exactly why I struggle to contain my rage when I hear people complaining about refugees and immigrants from this region. First we destabilize the area deliberately for no discernible reason other than greed then we demonize the people fleeing the area. I hope that some day we will all come to understand these decisions as atrocities that are at heart deeply unAmerican.
It's nice to find out someone else who understands why people of Afghanistan are moving to another country for better life.
I'm not American but I do welcome the people of Afghanistan to my country.
I have no issue on refugees..
Sadly, my Murdoch run government does (Australia. Where going to church means hating Brown ppl in boats)
Actually, those decisions/atrocities were very "American". Atrocities and genocide are an American tradition. This country was built off of the genocidal theft of Native American land and the atrocity called the Atlantic Slave Trade of Africans. Genocide and atrocities are as American as apple pie.
@@akken2112 yeah I agree, that's what upsets me, I was speaking about my hope that what that means will one day change.
Finally someone spoke the truth
Capitalism and neocolonialism at its worst. So heartbreaking, it was hard to watch the whole video.
What is sad is how many Americans support it.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 - Socialism doesn't work that way. When you have a surplus of food in a nation, you can afford to give it to people for cheap or free.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 - Socialism in a political system is an experiment. Some things work better than others. Of course, people say "socialism fails" because of some examples of governments trying to create it for the public. The reason some of them failed is because of external reactionary causes such as sanctions and military action against their government before they could improve the society they were charged for changing. Cuba is a perfect example of this sabotage by the capitalist powers. Venezuela is another example. Both were starting to improve and then sanctions, CIA attacks and other sabotages caused them an economic crash that is still happening because the sanctions are still happening. If my car that I built works well and you pour sugar into my gas tank, and the car stops working, did I fail or did you cause me to fail? Another example of a socialist success if Yugoslavia...until the capitalists used NATO to destroy their progress.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 So is capitalism 🥴
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 - So is the United States, does that prove capitalism is bad?
You can't claim to be a good person when you stand by and do nothing while people suffer. The US needs to get its shit together and fast. Thank you Gravel for continuing to educate.
You can't "get your shit together", when far to many have bought into the lie of how GREAT America is.
If it doesn't fill olicharchs pockets it isn't done.
If you can find a way to do something that also pays the richest people in the world they will have everything they need within days.
@@spencers4121 As big of a problem as republicans are, I see major hypocrisy with liberals who will only look at issues within America, and praise every democrat president, regardless of what they do.
"you can't claim to be a good person when you stand by and do nothing while people suffer."
Plenty of people in your own country suffer, I don't think you've help at all, you're not a good person.
Imagine hating the USA so much that you will defend and support even objectively worst Capitalist and Fascist regimes like Tsar Fascist Putin's Nazi Russia and China's Authoritarian Government.
It's devastating to see the effect of our governments policies on regular Afghanis. Something MUST be done
Audit and abolish the Federal Reserve. EndTheFed. Create parallel economies by engaging in agorism. The World Economic Forum and their technocratic ilk are speeding up their Great Reset Agenda to have people "own nothing and be happy." This is the time to resist and build alternatives.
wait and see...
US government doesn't even want to provide social services to it's own people.
@@AgoristsRising That's some fresh right-wing word salad you're serving up there.
It will be the same with the sanctions on Russia. We, the opposition to Putin's regime, cannot even flee from political repressions. Nice work.
“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”
- Frantz Fanon
Amazing quote
You’re quoting a commie lmao
@@cheengsing2300 And?
@@jackharold8379 and that immediately makes the quote uncredible.
@@cheengsing2300 Exactly.
Blessings to the people working at the Gravel Institute. You are all heroes. ❤️
♥
They're heroes for... crying on screen and accomplishing nothing like their dead daddy gravel?
Imagine hating the USA so much that you will defend and support even objectively worst Capitalist and Fascist regimes like Tsar Fascist Putin's Nazi Russia and China's Authoritarian Government.
i get what you want to say but...true critical thinking isn't their thing. Hero is a strong word.
they twist truths, only superficially inform themselves, cherry pick.
greetings from afghanistan
sometimes.
I think they listen too much to people like Sanders sometimes or are too critical of America. At least sometimes
I mean, America should be able to do what it wants with it's money.
This woman complains the US cut off money to Afghanistan, but the thing is, it's American money, so America's choice.
"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy America reigns without a rival."
-Frederick Douglass
The US government and big businesses treat their own citizens as slaves.
👍🏾@@ojonasar👏🏾
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No, bashing America just makes people feel like badasses who are sticking it to the man. The US doesn't have the power to starve a nation. Sanctions against Afghanistan are coming from all over.
We point fingers at Russia and China and accuse them of human rights violations yet isn't this exactly what the US is doing to Afghani babies, children, and others? Sanctions cause human suffering and should be seen as a human rights violation. After twenty years the US has little to show in terms of eliminating hunger and poverty in Afghanistan. The sanctions and freeze on 10 billion in Afghani money is cruel and unusual punishment and should be seen as a crime against humanity.
ceci gowin, sadly there aren’t good powers
Thank you for raising awareness about the situation in Afghanistan
Well at least Afghans know what the difference between a man and woman is, so they are more progressive than we are
Mind-numbingly despicable, and completely in our power to end.
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It's completely in our power to what? Overtax our own populace to fund some poppy farmers in the desert?
@@xxNephlimxx Or maybe just end the sanctions?
@@samsca8529 The Taliban will get that money and spend it how they see fit
Afghanistan's population has nearly doubled since the US invaded.
The US propped up a modern-ish economy in Afghanistan for 20 years, with all of the growth and development which that entails, and then went "Ok, now go back to your pre-2000's era economy."
We basically Puerto Rico'd them without bothering to make them a territory.
That said, if you're a foreign policy ghoul, it's an excellent means of controlling a country which would otherwise be antagonistic towards you. Turn off the tap, remind them what a pre-2000's era Afghan economy looks like, then swoop in later with very strict, conditional support.
But that'll probably be more on the IMF side of things. I don't know that the US will be directly involved beyond pithy humanitarian aid gestures.
Let's be real, the US has its own starving population who regularly freeze to death over winter. If the US can't be bothered with its own citizens, what chance do Afghans have?
That sounds about right. Unspeakable.
The always talk nice, but they are brutal sadists.
This, this is exactly right!!
China or Russia could come to the aid of Afganistan right now. Putin has already decided, rightly or wrongly, to move in Ukraine; he might as well keep going to send in some forces to remove the Talibs from Afghanistan and China could provide economic relief. That's if they felt it was in their interest to do so.
Sure the US would find a way to demonize them for it, and all corporate MSM would dutifully comply, but at this point I hope the both of those states should realize that any hope of a sane and rational relationship with our current wackjob group of "leaders" is impossible. If they don't step up to teach the Pentagon that it doesn't own the globe and everyone on it and it never will, who will??
That's really something I'd love to see, but for now, I don't think I will.
@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago why not let the taliban have afghanistan
How many countries have we done this to? Then, in 20 years, the kids from today will grow up thinking that these people are just like this because "culture."
American economic policy in destabilized nations is like how people say "dont give money to homeless people, they'll just use it for drugs" They assume the mental instability of addiction justifies not supporting them, just like the US assumes the corrupt leadership of unstable countries justifies not supporting the citizens. But just like the ruthlessness and exploitation of the US's economy causes the conditions of addiction, it also caused the instability in the country that lead to these crises. We use the problems we create to benefit from them, but we use the consequences to justify not helping them.
ok, but how then would/should the USA support the people of Afghanistan?
Ah, don't you just love Reaganism?
@@Robbedem send food to stop starvation. 10k of newborn child alone are killed due to mass starvation
I was expecting this was going to be about Yemen
It's hard to keep track of all the famines caused by US sanctions and war profiteering. You would almost think it's a means to rule the world or something...
Question: How can the US freeze the money of Afghanistan if it's "their" money?
Because 'Merica, that's how
U.S. Currency held by foreign governments is held by the U.S. treasury branch in New York I think, so the U.S. treasury can freeze the account.
It was not "their" money. It was just a small chunk of the billions of U.S. money that has been used to keep Afghanistan afloat over the years.
Because it was in US dollars. It’s why the US wants to keep the US dollar the global currency. So they can rob people more easily.
they kept it in American banks
Thank you my sister for your love and courage
Thank you so much for another great video❤
This is powerful. Thank you for sharing this. Opens up my eyes on so many topics and policies.
End all sanctions against people of the oppressed countries!
Like Afganistan, Cuba, Iran and etc.
It is inhumane and hypocrite to harm innocent people in the fight again the "evil"...
Wouldn't it also be inhumane to support regimes like that?
IMHO it's mostly a bad situation in which there is no good solution.
Sadly I think the sanctions will end when the Baby boomers become small enough to not impact votes anymore. They are the ones who mainly carry that Cold war mindset.
@@Robbedem It isn't supporting, many American businesses won't simply do business in those nations, it's not the same as RESTRICTING TRADE indeed.
@@Robbedem Are you saying Afghanistan, Cuba and Iran are more “inhumane” than the US? You’d be a fool to actually believe that.
@@neurotika oh forgive me for pointing out the FACT that the US is far more “inhumane” than any of the countries named above 🙄
I hope this gets the attention it deserves
Thank you for raising awareness about the situation in Afghanistan 🙏🏻
When people say socialism/communism causes famines...
You can now show them this 😁
😎Capitalism baby
The international central banking system, which creates infinite inflation by creating fiat currency out of nowhere and enriches central bankers, their political allies and corporate cronies, is a socialist monetary system. If you truly believe that "capital" is evil, AuditAndAbolishTheFed. It creates "capital" and profit for the benefit of the state but it does not suffer the losses usually experienced by the private sector when it does not create value to society 😐 EndTheFed!
Well, 100 million or some people starve to death under capitalism every 7th year or so, anyways so we've got those numbers to show either way :P
Socialist-leaning Presidents like Woodrow Wilson and FDR allowed "capital" to be created out of nowhere by the central banking system. 😐
Devaluing our currency makes purchasing (even basic necessities like food, shelter, education and health care) more difficult by the day. The Fed also funds infinite wars overseas and the militarization of the police in our local districts.
The cruelty is the point
Good job naming and shaming the culprits. I'm hoping at least one of them can still feel shame after years in mainstream politics.
They feel the piles of money they sleep on every night
We cancelled the DoD Sis! SLAAYYY!
Consider your tea spilt DoD cuz we just put your receipts on blast.
They didn't name and shame the culprits. Afghanistan is being sanctioned by countries all over the world. The Gravel Institute only cares about hating America.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
-Greek proverb
"I got mine, so screw you!"
-American proverb
For a large growing percentage of Americans, they're on the shitty end of the stick too. politicians have all but sold off the poor and working middle class.
No doubt @@spencers4121.👍🏾
Unfortunately they tend to be closer to the least powerful and influential side of the equation.
America ranked the most charitable nation on Earth three years in a row according The World Giving Index. And they only did six studies.
@@Dennis-nc3vw You can be charitable when you’ve stolen everybody’s shit 🤷🏽♀️.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Usually through missionaries to forcefully convert people into Christianity.
Thank you for your great work
Such an important message!
I sometimes wish I could go back to a time in my life when I lived in blissful ignorance to the inhumane treatment and destruction my nation (USA) has done to so many smaller nations on Earth over the past 80 years, if not throughout its entire existence! But one day, I learned who Howard Zinn was and it expanded from there. I still love my country, but I am horrified by what my nation has also done around the world.
The United States is justified and Howard sin is a con. We had to fight communism and fascism and terrorist. You can’t be the most powerful nation in the world by being nice. We do the world good and justice. We give. Ore humanitarian aid then any other nation. We are the good guys.
@@someonenew439 😂😂😂 your tongue must be awful uncomfortable in your mouth having turned to leather by now with all that bootlicking you have done defending our disgusting inhumane foreign policy!
Im to the point where I no longer can love my country.
@@politicalchannels8958 Our country single handedly curbed the AIDS and Malaria Crisis in Africa through PEPFAR and PMI, saving well over a million lives, but the Gravel Institute won't tell you about any of that.
@@Dennis-nc3vw and why should they?
You have the brain of a child if you think that Gravel should have included such extremely irrelevant information such as your AIDS comment.
It is patriotic to question your government my friend, stop being a butler for the status quo.
Afghanistan could ask Cuba for advice in this crisis.
No really. Cuba had to survive with an enforced embargo for decades, and still ongoing.
If anyone can help Afghanistan survive this, it's cubans.
some socialism may be necessary. I wonder how well that will be received by Taliban. I have no idea.
america is going to do even worse things if afganistan is socialist
@@its_jasonBSF Returns to socialism.
The Taliban don’t know how to run a economy though. They don’t know how to do anything except crack down on crime.
90% civilian casualty rate in 20 year invasion with no objectives, and now they are causing a famine.
could you imagine being in a position to save millions of lives and, for whatever reason, doing anything else?
Yeah. It's called being literally any billionaire
It’s even worse than that. It’s being able to do nothing and not plunge millions of lives into suffering and death, but instead you choose to do it, on purpose.
This video just makes me feel hurt for the Afghanistan people. Great reporting.
Thank you for bringing this to peoples attention. I have a speech for a political event planned for next week and I was thinking of incorporating some talking points in this video in it. is this OK?
This videos criticism doesn’t make any sense. Why would we still fund a nation that just overthrew our government? Why would we fund a regime that want to kill Americans? Why would we grant economic help to a country that does t have the same values as us or protect human rights? Please for the love of God answer these questions! This video is B.S. you get mad when where there but then get mad when we leave. You don’t criticize America because you want change. You criticize it because you want it to collapse and have more dumb Americans buy into the idea of Anti Americanism. This video is completely wrong and has no vision of the world. Why would we support people that hate us? Answer it!!!!!
@@someonenew439 “Why would we fund nations that overthrew our government?” We never should have been there in the first place. We propped up and illegitimate regime
@@NoahRamseysGhost no we didn’t. That was a legitimate regime. You have no reason to defend the Afghan people. Before we liberated them they supported a government that killed thousands of Americans. The war in Afghanistan was 100% justified. Everyone agrees with this. And the government we established was legitimate. They overthrew it. The Afghan people deserve no help. No support. We are not obligated to help or protect people who kill Americans, overthrow governments we established and wish to not be apart of our global system or the western world. We should never help them.
Thank You for this important information
I highly recommend you to read about Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Specifically, how it managed to improve education and health care during civil war (1978-1991) with the help of USSR.
Then look up, how many tones of bombs US dropped on Vietnam, and wonder why some people even compare the two conflicts.
as flawed as the DRA was taraki was a very underrated socialist and its a shame he died too soon.
"I highly recommend you to read about Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Specifically, how it managed to improve education and health care during civil war (1978-1991) with the help of USSR"
Pfffffft. By all means, do some research about the Soviet incursion in Afghanistan. You'll see why rearranger's claim is so funny.
Both American and Soviet occupation were bad. Afghanistan belongs to Muslims to rule however they please, foreigners should stay out and not meddle with the internal affairs of Islamic countries. Afghans don't want to get involved in a war between two white nuclear countries.
@@hassanalbolkiah127
"Afghanistan belongs to Muslims to rule however they please, foreigners should stay out and not meddle with the internal affairs of Islamic countries"
Because rape and beheading and clitorectomies are just a cultural thing....
"Afghans don't want to get involved in a war between two white nuclear countries."
And that's why they protected al-Qaeda....
They will never do that and they are selfish. We need socialist institutions and governments who care about people around the world to save the world.
How.
Not even the only famine they are directly involved in unfortunately.
If you hand $10 Billion to the Taliban and make them pinkie swear to only buy food with it I'm sure everything will work out as-expected.
dude, we're talking about SANCTIONS here, SANCTIONS. A form of economic siege, not just "cutting funding they were supplying", but economically besieging a country so that their economy cripples and sending millions of their people to death through starvations and malnutrition.
We're literally talking about starving millions of innocents to death here. You guys should stop justifying the act of murdering possible millions of people on the basis of "their gov bad", if anything, that actually make your gov the greater evil in this issue
With every day passing by, I still can’t comprehend almost everyone around me (in Europe) thinks I’m an idiot because I don’t think the US is a benign country. It’s really hard to have an informed opinion these days.
The reason why they spend boatloads of money on advertising/PR is simple: propaganda works. Ever since the end of WWII, three generations of Western people have been brainwashed into believing that the American empire is benevolent. Politicians said so; the educational system said so; mass-media said so; Hollywood said so. It comes as no surprise that people fell for it hook, line, and sinker!
Yeah. People think you're a weirdo if you say that the usa is the cause of most of the missery in the world.
Guess im lucky to be living in Germany because here the just see the US as overrated
Probably because almost everything you hate America over your people are/were involved in. The US doesn't have the power to starve Afghanistan or any nation through sanctions. We are only 25% of the world economy. NATO, the UN, etc. are all engaged in anti-Taliban sanctions.
@@Dennis-nc3vw but the usa is the only one who can change it. Usa says yes, it is yes. Usa says no, it is no. That is what being a hegemon is, and the responsibility that comes with it.
You always want your cake and also want to eat it, and then act all innocent when cought.
You do know what happens to countries that trade with sanctioned countries right....?
Every year that goes by, I become more and more ashamed to be an American
Because you make a habit of shooting up your veins with anti-American propaganda.
ZephyrFluos isn’t your fault, your country is incredible, the problem is the elite (like in all countries, especially great powers)
You should be ashamed of being a coward who watches cartoons.
Seriously, cartoons. Find a tall bridge.
Thanks for sharing the store...
Thank you so much.
India is supplying free wheat and medicines for the Afghan people.
The people of Afghanistan are facing the worst humanitarian crisis ever. Thanks for advocating for this cause.
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One day...judgement will come to my government for its actions in Afganistan. This is so brutal.
And here I was thinking it would be Yemen, it's hard to keep count with the US. The truth is that sanctions often kill more people than war does. Sanctions are intended to shorten people's lives through deprivation of medicine and food. Despite this there has never once been a case of sanctions resulting in a regime change (except perhaps apartheid SA, but that was also the result of an insurgency) and when has regime change ever been a right of the US anyway? "Confiscating national reserves" is just another way of staying "stealing from an entire country." Hopefully countries in the region will be able to help wean Afghanistan away from its forced dependency on the US. No wonder the global south is all moving towards China and away from the US. I only hope the power of this shithole empire declines faster, whatever that means for its citizens because they have cost the rest of the world too much already. The only real problem with this video is the tone: this pleading, paternalistic "afghans are just as deserving as Americans..." Yeah, no shit. A tone that would actually match the situation is furious anger. This is why we should all cheer the decline of US global hegemony, fuck them pretending they are the good guys now because of Ukraine.
So happy to work alongside and being a part of making this happen, I make vlogs in Afghanistan to show the reality there.
Keep it up man you've gots yourself a new subscriber
heart-breaking, the whole world suffering just cause a few people want to make a profit
Afghanistan isn't the whole world.
@@xxNephlimxx russians, cubans, venezuelans, afghans, yemenis, etc. Every other country knows that if they step out of line their people will be added to the list. Rational policies cannot be implement because, in the words of a fellow countryman "we don't have a strong army". Coups, invasions and famine are what forces most of the world to bend the knee to a handful of capitalists.
How on God's Green Earth does anyone make a profit off of sanctions? Do YOU even know what you meant by what you just said. Every time the US goes to war, you say we are doing it to open their country to the global market so we can "exploit" them. Now that we shut Afghanistan all from international capitalism, you claim that's motivated by profit too!?
@@Dennis-nc3vw All countries want a sweetspot where they sell and buy according to their needs, as the USA can no longer exploit Afghanistan they close them off to soffocate them, so the afghanis wonder if they were in a less bad state when exploited and serve as an example to other countries as to not get on the USA's bad side.
Good video
It's almost like how Britain treated Ireland is how america has treated afganistan and numerous small countries across the world that can't defend themselves shouldn't be expected in this day and age
I'm from EU, excuse me not being well versed in this, but - how is US responsible for causing a famine, if all they did was cut funding they were supplying? So they were preventing a famine each year they were supplying them.
And if Afganistan is now controlled by Taliban, an enemy of US, wouldn't US supporting Afganistan economically mean US is supporting their enemy/Taliban?
In all fairness I guess you could say that freezing the Afghanistan bank is taking away moneys from the Afghans that they earned and deposited.
@@Dennis-nc3vw But it's also freezing the assets of the Taliban.
@@YorenSt Yes, it's not an easy issue.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Few geopolitical things are.
@@YorenSt Which is the current government of Afghanistan, the citizens there don't deserve to starve just because your Western Bloc is having a hissy fit over their puppet government being unsustainable.
And you think the policy should be to pump more money to AF and that should solve the country's problems? AF had huge problems with corruption way before the Taliban took over last year; I don't believe the Central Bank will stay transparent and I am sure the money will end up in the hands of corrupt officials. AF had its chance 7 years ago to establish a solid foundation for its own government; it is sad that the population is suffering and I agree that sanctions should be removed but nothing beyond that.
Yeah, money can't buy you love. So I'll tell you what, give me all your account passwords, and I'll transfer all that superfluous money sitting around in your accounts to myself. After all, "pumping money" into anybody's economy cant solve their problems!
I agree that the America government is acting like entitled A-holes in Afghanistan, like any movement to save lives it should include ALL the acts of self interest emanating from our shores. Thousands of people are starving in Palestine, Yemen, Venezuela and Iraq the outrage should be presented for all the harm we are doing around the globe.
It is a crime that this is not getting enough views or being pushed to inform others
These officials say they understand the working-class plight but what substantive actions have they taken to enshrine/offset these burdens of the working class. There is a disconnection issue that exists and it is not these individuals necessarily, but the system we exist in that requires these types of choices to be. The only existing policies for working-class folks exist truly in symbol not in substance anymore. The Social Security program has and continues to be underfunded to the point in which retirement may not be an option in the future. The fact remains that if the US political system and subsequent regimes that hold power do not uphold their own citizens' futures of deserving of dignity and respect. How can these same individuals and/or systems seemingly care about working-class children across the world?
I am by no means minimizing the crisis in Afghanistan, but these individuals do not care and The Gravel Institute should seek to hold them accountable on a public platform. No war but class war!
How have I never heard of this before?
Western media only covers that wich supports the western capitalist agenda, that is why It shows russian bombs falling on Ukraine and dead ukrainians, but not USA's bombs falling on Yemen nor dead afghanis. If people were to listen to more than western media they would realize the bad guys are the elites at home, and that would endanger corporate profits.
If this were brought up at the UN, would the UN have any influence on US policy?
Thank you
Money is not the long-term solution, what they beed is ressources and help to rebuild their farming that was turned into drug farming by American imperialism. Money is something we need to get away from and asking a poor country to rebuild banks is not helpful as it is still forcing the country into a system that they have no choice in. Money only gatekeepd ressources and when an monetary economy is exploding, it doesn't make any sense to fight to build it back as they always eventually break down like this. The US just helped them and to think that it wasn't the goal from the start would be pretty stupid. The government that was created was a puppet government, a literal example of the imperialist ways of the American Empire. We need to give them sovereignty even if we don't like Talibans. We can raise their living standards by helping the people living and understand that the Taliban government only legitimacy because they have been put as the rebels in the country for decades. The US had made sure to crush any left-wing movement like it does everywhere in fear of communism, using the fear of Russia taking over instead of themselves to justify occupying an entire country for more than 2 decades
I wouldn't say the US made them grow drugs but rather, it is the cheapest way to make a lot of profits for farmers. So, why would you grow it?
@@leighfoulkes7297 I would say so when the people who were in control of the decision making were a joint US military and US build and run sham government! The incintive was still money and the issue is that it will stay such as long as we prioritize money instead of ressources
Afghanistan has a great deal of mineral resources that have thus far gone unexploited. What they need right now, this moment, is not to be sanctioned by the largest economies on earth and to be given back their own money we’ve frozen and are stealing. Kind of like Venezuela. Don’t sanction and economically strangle the nation and they can develop. Do, and they cannot.
You're spewing empty words and hot air and you know it.
"their farming that was turned into drug farming by American imperialism"
Do you have a single shred of evidence for any such conspiracy. Of course not. You'd blame your flat tire on "American Imperialism." How would it even be in America's interests to have Afghanistan grow illegal drugs, rather than goods we can legally trade in and tax? It wouldn't. And you know that, but you love to hate America so much that you throw your own mind under the bus.
"The government that was created was a puppet government, a literal example of the imperialist ways of the American Empire."
Even *you* don't know what you mean by this. That "puppet government", which was elected by the Afghan people, made converting to Christianity illegal and wrote Islam into their constitution. "Puppet" is just a meaningless term you tankies throw around like confetti to delegitimize anyone who allies with the United States.
@@Dennis-nc3vw Lol you called me a tankie that's so funny thanks for the laugh mate!
This is also why many believe the IMF is not the benevolent organization it claims to be.
It isn't. Never was.
*why many KNOW the IMF is not the benevolent organization it claims to be.
The goal is to manipulate poor goverment's policies and create dependence.
Just look at what they did to Argentina, working with that dictator to keep them in an austerity stranglehold for years. Thank god Chinese investment has given the country a new lease on life but of course the world over-the-hill, incompetent, failing hegemon has to rattle its sabre and threaten to bully them some more for getting away from the US and recovering.
@@DinoCism Argentina has recently made a new deal with the IMF, we are going to pay them with the blood of the poor.
Make sure to watch all the way through.
Personally attempting to bring this to PragerU algorithm feeds by watching back and forth I dont know how effective that is
Important that this isn't forgotten
We need more coverage of this; all of Europe, Canada, and the US are all "poor Ukrainians" (not to take away from that tragedy) and then completely ignore the Middle East. A British reporter even said that "Ukrainians are civilized" in implication that the Middle East isnt
The USA waged war with the Taliban for 20 years and poured enormous amounts of money into that country. And they trained their military, gave them weapons... What were they expecting, the USA to feed them forever and to fight their wars? An army of 300.000 soldiers collapsed in a matter of days...Taliban were so strong? No, they obviously like to live like in the middle ages in Islamic theocracy...And now we should recognize such government? Taliban government? America and Europe should take care of them? They chose that, no other country is to blame. And, yes, that British reporter was right.
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 Western chauvinistic BS.
@Ozymandias Gidon Nullifidian And the indigenous of Australia should be glad that it was the British who invaded, because some other country would have been worse..?
@@frostymarbles2655 I don't care about insults. They speak only about you. The USA has no obligation to feed them. They wanted to live under the Taliban, it is their business.
@@the_local_bigamist Really? Sorry that I am not Islamic chauvinist like you.
Why don’t they stop it? Like what is there to lose for them? Not that any perceived losses to american elites would be worth afghani lives but I’m trying to understand is this solely cruelty or is there some capital gain happening here?
The U.S is salty that one of their former puppet neo-colony get away from their grip. Also, apparently Afghanistan have untapped mineral resources just discovered there.
Just a heads up, your first citation is wrong, it links to a story about Ukraine. I found the article being talked about by googling the title at 1:28
It really sucks that they are going through a drought because at the very least they could grow and raise their onw food. Can't do that with no water and the wrold being set on fire will only make this worst.
Economic sanctions have a place in international diplomacy but often they hurt working-class citizens and leave those in power unscathed.
They always affect poor and working class the most
They only work if you're capable of targeting the rich. That way, you aren't hurting the average person that needs the money and you're going after a demographic that neoliberal governments tend to care most about.
EndTheFed. 😐 The Federal Reserve and the international central banking system funds infinite wars overseas and domestically. This system of monetary control widens the wealth gap and enriches only the central bankers, their political allies and corporate cronies.
The sole purpose of sanctions as laid out by the CIA is to squeeze and provoke the poorest people. They are simply pawns in the destabilization game that we've been playing for the last 80 years
"often"
You mean always and every time and mostly just them (working class).
The only type of sanctions that CAN (so not always) be good is weapon sanctions.
So that said "evil" country cannot buy or sell weapons.
End of conversation.
Nothing else.
Yes on humanitarian side I completely agree. The people suffered enough and deserves a normal life. However, to counter some of the point. Wasn’t it the fault of the Afghan government to rely so much on the aid. They had 20 years to stabilize the economy and be less reliant on only foreign aids. It was the politicians scheming off aid and using it as their personal payment. Sending aid to the Taliban government which by the way maybe directed to funding them instead of the people may spark many people to later say well America funds terrorists. America has a history where their aid money was misused by dictator to prop up their own ruthless regime and years down the line it was America who was blamed for helping the regime.
I meam they tried to stabilise the economy, but it did not work, whatever they did the only thing people purchased from afghanistan was opium.
Dude, first of all, it's not that "American aid money were being misused by the very d*ck-tators they supports and put in power", those aid money wasn't even intended to be used to actually helps the citizens of those d*ck-tatorsh*ts in the first place, on the contrary, those aid money were intended for supporting the very d*ck-tators that they supports.
Also, dude, we're talking about SANCTIONS here, SANCTIONS. A form of economic siege, not just "cutting funding they were supplying", but economically besieging a country so that their economy cripples and sending millions of their people to death through starvations and malnutrition.
We're literally talking about starving millions of innocents to death here. You guys should stop justifying the act of murdering possible millions of people on the basis of "their gov bad", if anything, that actually make your gov the greater evil in this issue.
I🇮🇳 send 500 matric tone wheat few week before and 10 ton medicine from govt. Side and we will soon we send more from Zamat .Ins allha we will help our afgann ikhwan in achieving nizam e mustafa.❤️thanks for informative vedio ❤️ur vedios
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It's mind-numbingly despicable, and it's entirely within our power to put an end to it.
I partly disagree. While they could stop it, I don't think they should. Because that would basicly be the same as supporting the Taliban regime. And then we'ld get a video here about how the USA is supporting the abuse of girls and women in Afghanistan.
copying my comment huh
@@cowmath77 Have you watched the video on their channel? It's multiple people using a bought brand account; sometimes those people get lazy and copy-paste comments. Apparently you can just go to their Discord server and ask to have the duped comments removed.
"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
America is taking 10 billion dollars of my people and my people are starving from the famine 🕊️📿🙏😭🤲🕋🕯️❤️🌹
Literally saw a PragerU ad before the video started...
US : we're sending more aid to Afghanistan than any other country during these troubling times!! uWu look at us helping!
Other countries : um.. ur foot is still crushing their windpipe.
Journalists: And u knocked them down in the first place..
USA : war on terror, mutual aid, Humanitarian QUEENS!! uWu 🥰
Extremely Serious Concerns!
How much can small farm sustainable agriculture help to minimize malnutrition, hunger, and starvation for anyone and everyone?
Thank you for sharing informative videos!
Very insightful. Keep it up.
Can you make video on Pakistan Minorities difficult conditions
Please re-upload your video about china! the truth needs to be known, no matter who it bothers.
What did the video on China say?
no war but class war.
Giving this video a "like" on all of my alt accounts to help push it in the algorithm. Wish there was more I could do.
Long life to AFGHANS people 🕊️📿🙏😭🕯️🌹🤲🕋❤️
This is why we don't want ANY country to rise and gain strength. We've screwed over too many countries
The Taliban thought that they would just be accepted as the legit govt and be given full support like the previous govt?? Thats loco
Why did they list the deputy treasury secretary but not the treasury secretary as people who can stop it?
I just wrote my senator last week about this.
If the Taliban want more aid, they must allow women to return to work in Afghanistan’s aid agencies. Taliban funded their war with Opium, but now have opposed opium production. I respect an opinion that US do more, but many Islamic nations are extremely wealthy, have assisted Afghanistan before and can assist now. The “reserves” frozen are actually western aid, mostly from US, and half this aid was given to Afghan agencies. Stop expecting US to support the nation and go to the Saudis, Emirates. Iran can stop terrorism, atomic bombs,Yemeni war, and put that money into Afghanistan.
dude, we're talking about SANCTIONS here, SANCTIONS. A form of economic siege, not just "cutting funding they were supplying", but economically besieging a country so that their economy cripples and sending millions of their people to death through starvations and malnutrition.
We're literally talking about starving millions of innocents to death here. You guys should stop justifying the act of murdering possible millions of people on the basis of "their gov bad", if anything, that actually make your gov the greater evil in this issue
Question. This is truly disgusting, but wouldn't it have been helpful to explain why these are frozen? The Taliban is the government, who can guarantee that the money will go to battling the famine?
What if the money goes to something bad? It would have been great if you explained this, instead of repeating "these officials can stop this" "we need to unfreeze this" 6x when it was clear the first time.
What if what if. This is just another sign the world must de dollarise faster.
It doesn't matter what the Taliban government spends it on, it was their country's money and the US had no right to take it. Also what makes you think they wouldn't spend it on food? They just fought a 20 year war and are trying to win over their population, starving their population is counterintuitive considering the Taliban want to be recognized as a legitimate government.
Also, The Taliban was calling for more peace talks over the UvR conflict. I mean,,, when the Taliban is telling us to use our big kid words, there's something not quite right here..
So you want to starve and kill millions because the Taliban might do something bad with the money?
If you are worried they are going to use that money to attack us then you should ask yourself if they were involved in the 9-11 attacks. Answer is no.
Are you worried they will let the Afghan people starve and die?
I think we have done enough and the only choice is letting Taliban do what they are going to do. It’s a loss loss but we have to let it play out without causing the people more harm we have done enough don’t you think?
@@thomaasfist6494 that was literally their justification for not supporting ukraine, DuR AzOV BaTalLion
how do these professionals not ball their freakin eyes out talking about this stuff
They should think about overthrowing the Taliban.
we already have war and pestilence happening, so. unsurprising we're creating famine.
Ukraine! Ukraine! Look at Ukraine! Whats Afghanistan? is it a new restaurant?
They need to give AFGHANS people money back and give more money because of the war damage and killing my people AFGHANS people
This is sickening.