government and U.S.-dominated institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund stopped pouring aid into Afghanistan after the Taliban took power. 15 - and with that famine became inevitable. “Any central bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban,” said an administration official on Aug. As the panic played out on American screens and the sense of humiliation mounted, the Biden administration made one thing clear. (It’s always the poor who go hungry or starve when food is scarce and the prices go up.) But the proximate cause of the impending famine was the chaos of the U.S. There was a drought in Afghanistan in the last couple of years of the American occupation, so many poor Afghans were already vulnerable before the events of the summer. But it’s the end of a war that is causing acute hunger in Afghanistan. Most famines are a direct and sometimes deliberate result of war. The other cause of their deaths will be a different kind of freeze. The cold will only finish the work that malnutrition began months or years ago. But it will not be the cold that kills them. The first snow of the winter will reach Kabul any day now, and the death rate will start to climb: mostly children, at first. Dyer: Freezing Afghanistan's overseas assets guarantees starvation
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