according to the united nations more than half of afghans will potentially face life-threatening levels of food insecurity this season the country is witnessing truly unprecedented levels of hunger now inflicting more than half its population of NUMBER_TOKEN million people international rescue committee describes a global system failure fueling the crisis naming afghanistan the most at-risk country of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the year ahead while the international committee of the red cross says the country is on the precipice of man-made catastrophe clearly we know who is to blame for this humanitarian catastrophe america yes many blame the u.s for afghanistan's horrific situation according critics biden should ease sanctions and engage with the taliban a former state department official says the united states should swallow the bitter pill of working with the taliban-led government in order to prevent a failed state in afghanistan of course the solution to afghanistan's problems is u.s intervention has anyone tried that before i think we might be on to something here and the united nations also has a great plan throw money at the problem today we are launching an appeal for NUMBER_TOKEN billion for afghanistan itself for NUMBER_TOKEN this is the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance and it is three times the amount needed and actually uh fundraised in uh NUMBER_TOKEN. now to be clear the un isn't donating NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars to afghanistan it's asking other people to donate NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars to afghanistan according to u.n officials the aid will go directly to the people who need it and not to the taliban because the authorities who force people to be had mannequins are reasonable and will keep their promises last month the u.n security council adopted a resolution exempting humanitarian assistance from u.n sanctions on afghanistan that will make it easier for international organizations to deliver aid to afghanistan and it's not just the u.n the u.s government is giving hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to afghanistan and the biden administration also issued exemptions to u.s sanctions to allow more aid not everyone likes that idea representative michael mccall said that exemptions could result in using american taxpayer funds to reward legitimize and enable the same taliban that took power by force now some people think the problems in afghanistan might have something to do with you know the taliban don't they know everything revolves around america but yes it turns out there might be some slight minor problems caused by the taliban i'll tell you more after the break welcome back yah who am i kidding there's no way youtube is going to let us monetize an episode about the taliban but so yeah the taliban isn't really known for their people skills apparently they're having a hard time finding staff i wonder why government employees have fled or refused to work leaving widespread vacancies in the fragile state so leaders have filled positions at all management levels with soldiers and theologians and yet for some reason that doesn't seem to be working out i'm shocked who would have thought that the skills you need to overthrow and destroy a government don't translate well to running one some are
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