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We know that the situation in the entire Middle East is very tense now. However, in this tense atmosphere, the United States happened to make a huge joke at this moment.

Here's the thing. Recently, the media discovered that a U.S. government oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, issued a report in July showing that since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the Taliban returned to power, the U.S. government has remitted at least 29 payments totaling $239 million to the Taliban regime's frozen accounts in Afghanistan. These funds mainly come from the "Democracy, Human Rights and Labor" and "International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs" departments under the U.S. State Department.

What is even more comical is that the source of this capital is not unknown, but it was originally intended to be used to support the former Afghan government for "anti-terrorism" in Afghanistan. The target was the Taliban. Then the former Afghan government was gone, but over the past three years, the US government has continued to allocate funds, and all the money has gone into the pockets of the Taliban.

US regulators blamed it on the US State Department's failure to comply with its requirements for reviewing its counterterrorism partners in Afghanistan. In other words, the review was ineffective, and these US government departments only knew to transfer the money without knowing who would receive it, and there was no effective review during this period.