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Is the West "starving" Afghanistan?

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The Spigots Is Not for the Taleman

The spigots is for teachers, nurses and water engineers who haven't been paid since august or april. The the ability of an agricultura dependent economy to import fertilizer or food stuffs that's essential. And at the moment, there is no economic activity in the formal economy. There's a drugs economy. But we don't want to drive people into that. We don't wants to drive them out of the banking system. Meanwhile, there's a massive exodus as well. People fleeing all all across different borders, as much as they can. It's this whole other international quandary about whether to s them.

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