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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thing is, you can find the most trustworthy politican in Afghanistan, dump a truckload of 4 billion at his doorstep...

...and then the next day, the Taliban knocks on his door with a gang armed with AK-47s, and they announce "Hello! I heard you wished to make a $4bil donation to the Taliban's women-beating fund!" What's he going to do in retaliation?

Hence why re-establishment projects keep the money on the part of the project (in this case, the US military) until they have places to spend that money (the infrastructure). Course, we can't do that now.

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