The Biden administration argues it has financial “leverage” over the Taliban to shape its behavior in the form of billions of dollars in Afghan national bank reserves frozen in the United States and hundreds of millions in paused international aid.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the mission of the U.S. to get the remaining Americans out of Afghanistan had "shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission,” adding, “We have considerable leverage over the Taliban to ensure that any remaining American citizen will be able to get out. … We will work through every available diplomatic means with the enormous leverage that we have and that the international community has to make that happen.”
When asked about the prospect of giving aid to the Taliban, Sullivan said that "humanitarian assistance” such as health and food aid “should go directly to the people of Afghanistan” through international and nongovernmental organizations, insisting “it’s not gonna flow through the Taliban” and that “it will not flow through the government.”
But Sullivan also said: “When it comes to our economic and development assistance relationship with the Taliban, that will be about the Taliban’s actions. It will be about whether they follow through on commitments. ... It’s gonna be up to them, and we are gonna wait and see, by their actions, how we end up responding in terms of the economic and development assistance.”
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This Stone Age People have done without for thousands of years. Do you believe Biden with holding aid is going to change them?
Nothing but lies come out of the fake president
They'll take our hard earned money from the backs of our labor & use it to kill us all the while imprisoning & torturing their captive Americans left behind by a demented, racist biden.
More demoncrap lies they will do as they damn well please, wait and see what they do on Sept 11 to those americans left behind.