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Is the West "starving" Afghanistan?

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Sanctions - Who Shouldn't You Sanction?

Most people in the world will say, yes, you should sanction the tarleban because of their conduct. But who shouldn't you sanction? You shouldn't sanction the people of afghanistan. They shouldn't be suffering. And if you're a technocrat in the central bank trying to make the afghan central bank work,. You need a government department. The trouble with the current policy is, if you wanted to design a policy to achieve state collapse, you' have the current policy. And that's the last thing the world needs.

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