This whole obstructionist argument, which is all it is because you can't actually debate the merits directly for pretty obvious moral reasons, after you previously conceded the money was 100% State owned. Your whole schtick falls apart on this when you made that argument, because the State of Afghanistan did not suddenly cease to exist in August of 2021 and exactly no Government in the World claims that; the issue is whether the Taliban are the existing Government of that State.
Since you conceded the DAB assets are State Property, that money belongs to the people of Afghanistan and should be released upon those merits.
>the people.
So who exactly?
You don't seem to have any argument as to Taliban being the legitimate government representing the people of Afghanistan.
Should they just load wads of cash into a plane and drop them over Kabul to whoever may be lucky to catch some?
Good thing we are in complete agreement that money belongs to the people of Afghanistan as a whole.
No, i said the government, not "the people".
Afghanistan currently does not have a recognized representative government, don't switch out words for me.
Now since you've fortunately pinned yourself down into the international standards argument, let's dig into that shall we?
The EU,
Uzbekistan,
Pakistan, China and Iran are among the many international entities/countries calling for the unfreezing of Afghan assets frozen back in August. The international consensus is out on whether to recognize the Taliban as the Government, but there is no question at all about releasing their assets. You, and the psychopaths in the U.S. State Department, are alone in this regard.
You talk of consensus and embassies, but as i said, that's small pragmatic political moves. I ask you again about the one thing that matters - official recognition of that government.
Did Iran do that? Russia? EU? Pakistan at least? It's a similar difference as between saying random crap when drunk and putting a signature on a notarized document.
There is no ethical argument to be made against doing this, especially in the context of the EU, Russia, Saudi Arabia and others re-opening their Embassies in Kabul. The U.S. refusing to do this is simply spite at losing, and is condemning millions to starvation.
If they all care so much about the ethics of it, let them convince equally ethical Taliban to relinquish control of the country and form some kind of emergency government that at least they will recognize. All for humanitarian reasons of course.
As things are, the Taliban are holding the country's economy hostage while demanding money that isn't theirs to pass through their hands with little to no supervision.
Alternatively let them set up a new reserve for Taliban government which they don't recognize, if they care so much, 10 bn USD is affordable for all of the 3 you mentioned.
But we all know they would sooner recognize the Taliban, which would solve the impasse.