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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Larry Elliott

The US economic war on Afghanistan amounts to a humanitarian crime

Boys crouch by fire
Young boys try to keep warm in Kabul’s market district. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The war in Afghanistan did not end when US and UK troops left Kabul airport last year; it merely took a different, but still lethal, form.

The response of President Joe Biden to the military humiliation inflicted on America by the Taliban has been a scorched-earth policy designed to cause the maximum amount of economic damage to what was already one of the world’s poorest countries.

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