It seems that a Taliban takeover is not the done deal as being
projected by the media etc. In the provinces the Taliban is hated.
To disturb the Taliban takeover the World Bank has refused its weekly
shipping of millions of dollars to the Afghan National Bank.
The Taliban are not recognised as the Government.
The Bank chairman said the bank has almost no cash and no way to get any.
There has been a run on the Bank in the last weeks and their normal
holdings are depleted.
The lack of cash will cause much distress as no one will be able to buy food etc.
The borrowing arrangements with the World Bank are not with the Taliban.

Though SR tries to apportion some blame for this cock up to Trump, the reality is that this disaster was entirely the responsibility of the Biden regime. This with the catastrophe occurring on the southern border is causing Biden's approval rating to plummet.

The greatest problem facing Biden's presidency is the midterm elections at which he could possibly lose both the senate and congress and become a lame duck.

Bazz,

I wouldn't get too excited about the banking arrangements in Taliban-istan. They can always revert to the policies of our own government and just start printing money.

Alternatively, they have China next door who are more than willing to fund the new government in return for two things - access to the mineral wealth there and that the Taliban abandon the Uighers.

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Things continue to unravel both in Washington and Kabul. Indeed things are so bad in DC that even the tame press whose sole job is to hide the ineptitude of the present government, have given up the task and are now mildly critical of the moron in the oval office. Wonders of wonders. But it won't last.

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In the worst timed political tour since Caesar decided to go to the Senate house on the Ides of March,VP Harris is going to Vietnam is a week or so to demonstrate that "America is back". Wow. As the comedians say, timing is everything.

Mhaze, yes they will have to get more paper currency, but they
probably do not have suitable presses or paper and cannot pay for
them, so the ever helpful Chinese will step in and then have Afghanistan
by the Sh & Curl.

Shadowminister,

How pathetic can you get.

Your president bowed to the Taliban's demand that 5,000 Taliban prisoners some of whom were their most hardened fighters be released before they would agree to any negotiations.

The “great deal maker” he was somehow decided that was a good idea.

This was the CNN report from a year ago.

“The release of prisoners is part of an agreement signed by the US and the Taliban in February, which sets into motion the potential of a full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and an end to America's longest-fought war.

American forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001 after the September 11 terrorist attacks, which the US linked to al Qaeda, a group that operated under the Taliban regime's protection in Afghanistan.

The February agreement called for the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners and 1,000 "prisoners of the other side" on the first day of the negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
"The relevant sides have the goal of releasing all the remaining prisoners over the course of the subsequent three months. The United States commits to completing this goal," the agreement said.”

So shadowminister, can you let me know how many of the thousands of prisoners released do you think were part of the group which took control of Kabul so quickly this month?

Your fawning over your president prevents you from being the least bit critical of him, we get that, but surely there must be some part of you that can recognise how much of this was his doing.

" can you let me know how many of the thousands of prisoners released do you think are part of the group which took control of Kabul "

No idea. No one knows. But we do know that one of the leaders of that group was released by the Obamessiah in return for a traitor who Obama tried to propagandise as a hero.