calling for $5 billion in aid this year alone. u.s. announcing this week, they ll pledge an addition $308 million in assistance to funding they re already providing, but the crisis is far from over. the country remains in stranglehold from taliban rule, because united states and others froze assets of the former government held by the u.s. federal reserve, worth about $9 billion. country, cut off from international financial constitutions, bank roll operation in the country now ruled by the taliban. no arguing that the nation remains under illegitimate rule leaving the u.s. with little choice but to issue sanctions for taliban mill military takeover but millions of lives hang in the balance so what s