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Rest in peace, Democracy.

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43.2% of Afghanistan’s annual exports is Gold, the single largest export, valued at $968 million in 2019, all of it exported to Dubai, UAE. With Ghani out of power and hiding in Dubai, Gold exports now need to stop, and should instead be kept as bank reserves.

Also, those of you searching for the “Bactrian Treasure” should look in Dubai. It’s where I would look.

Dubai has enough Gold, they don’t need anymore. It’s time to cut them off.

Dubai sure loves its Gold, being its largest import at 13.5%, importing it from around the world. As someone who loves Gold myself, I can respect that. But it’s still time to cut off that 3.05%.

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Young boys ages 12 to 17 are more likely to be hospitalized with myocarditis than to be hospitalized with COVID.

Rate of myocarditis for boys 12-15 was 162.2 cases per million vs. rate of COVID with 44 cases per million. Girls are less affected, for whatever reason, with only 13.4 cases per million.

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Washington came up with a scheme to airlift cash into Afghanistan to help the poor, a trial run for larger air deliveries of dollars from Pakistan. I don’t trust anything coming out of Washington (or Pakistan for that matter), and this is no different.

While the need for the cash is there, I don’t trust this, and would be very wary of allowing any foreign currency to be flown in and spent directly into circulation in the local Afghan economy.

Afghan banks need dollars to be held in reserve to stabilize the local currency, the Afghani, which is losing value against the dollar. If the west is successful in spending large sums of dollars into the economy, locals will prefer it as a currency over the Afghani, which will further destabilize the Afghani, causing the country to become even more dependent on dollars, and causing a rift between businesses and the Taliban, who will attempt to enforce the Afghani in trade.

It’s financial opium with Washington as the drug dealer.

Yes, Afghanistan needs dollars, held by banks in reserve to stabilize the Afghani, not given directly to people to use in day to day trade.

Biden authorized the Treasury Department to freeze approximately $9.4 billion in Afghan reserves in August. The fact that Biden is not unfreezing these reserves to stabilize the Afghani suggests to me that these planned cash airlifts are not alms to the needy, but financial warfare to destabilize the Afghan economy.

I do not trust this, and unless the dollars go to Afghan banks to be held in reserve, it should be rejected if possible.

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International flights resume at Kandahar International Airport with regular flights between Iran and Afghanistan.

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