After the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 the Taliban seized control of the country. In response the International Monetary Fund and major international donors to the country blocked the Taliban’s access to billions of dollars in charitable bank accounts. More than half of Afghanistan’s annual $5 billion budget is from foreign aid. Despite its puritanical brand of Islam, the Taliban controls the world’s largest opium operation, earning about $460 million a year from taxes on the sale of heroin moving through their territories alone, the U.N. says.…
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84% No |
16% Yes |
84% No |
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Unique answers from Ireland users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
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No to the Taliban but more aid for Afghanis
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Yes, with a hell of a lot of strings attached.
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We need to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan but in no circumstance should we promote the violent regime of the Taliban the Taliban should never have return to Afghanistan
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If its showed to be an effective method of dealing with the Taliban then yes.
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no but aid ngo's that operate in Afghanistan
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Only if the situation in Afghanistan gets worse and food shortage and drought become common place
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