Violence and Economic landslide in Afghanistan is taking a deadly toll on the population as the country has been cut off from all but a trickle of humanitarian aid.
Roughly 23 million people are facing acute food insecurity as a result, and that number is liable to grow if the international response remains as limited and piecemeal as it has been.
Nothing better illustrates the cruelty and destructiveness of economic warfare than the current situation in Afghanistan, which is being subjected to the equivalent of a blockade because of the outcome of a war that the US and its allies lost.
The people of Afghanistan are now being starved because the US and US-led international institutions refuse to accept the reality of that defeat.
It is inexcusable that the same governments that kept Afghanistan so dependent on external support for the last twenty years have yanked away that support when it is most needed for the Afghan people to survive and recover.
It is incumbent on the US and these institutions to alleviate the massive suffering that their policies are creating.