“Russia says Afghan president fled with cars and helicopter full of cash – RIA” (Reuters):
Russia’s embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the RIA news agency reported.
“As for the collapse of the (outgoing) regime, it is most eloquently characterised by the way Ghani fled Afghanistan,” Nikita Ishchenko, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Kabul, was quoted as saying by RIA.
“Four cars were full of money, they tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter, but not all of it fit. And some of the money was left lying on the tarmac,” he was quoted as saying.
Where does Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai go to spend this cash? (And should Andrew Cuomo join him? Presumably any place that welcomes Ghani isn’t going to be too concerned about the things Cuomo is accused of.)
My guess: Belarus. The EU and the US already hate the government of Belarus. Immigrants enrich us culturally and economically, and no human being is illegal, but it is “warfare” when Belarus allows low-skill migrants from Iraq into the EU (see “Latvia and Lithuania act to counter migrants crossing Belarus border” (Guardian))
Related:
- Idi Amin, who spent retirement on the beach in Saudi Arabia
- Belarusian Brides (a sampling of the young women whom Andrew Cuomo could meet)
- Where can Harvey Weinstein go for a peaceful retirement?
Back to Johns Hopkins! Charm City! In Baltimore, John Waters can dress him up in disguise drag and they can have a huge party making shitty movies. He’ll look like some exotic, dark, handsome mysterious drag queen. He’s got a handsome face that will respond well to a good makeup treatment. Bloomberg can drop by in a dress one evening and they can go out for vegetarian eggplant, blow each other in Wyman Park and then Ghani can slip him a few trunk loads of cash to replenish some of his 2020 election coffers. Thanks, Mike!
Big Plus! – he’ll be close enough to DC that he can still get out at night and visit the President in secret, to advise him on his next moves. Biden will listen to anything, and frankly at this point Ghani owes him – at the very least – some wise anthropological advice. It’s unclear whether Biden is capable of retaining much, though. He may have to visit JHU Neuroscience and ask a few team members for memory help. Or maybe this is all something he’d just rather forget. In a way that fits, doesn’t it?
If that doesn’t work, he can go to Curacao. Fantastic internet connections, wealthy and sophisticated beach front, lots of boats, beautiful (Hublot store!) But Nevermore! Afghanistan.
https://www.hublot.com/en-us/
But why not US, like everyone else? Looks like a classical case of political refugee, easy to prove.
At least the cash is moved out of Afghanistan by Ghani, but all the military hardware, training and infrastructure the US has spent money on and built in Afghanistan is now completely in the hands of the Taliban [1]. This is more costly than the cash Ghani may have taken with him.
[1] https://www.firstpost.com/world/us-exit-from-afghanistan-gives-taliban-access-to-several-weapons-including-guns-ammunition-helicopters-and-more-9892981.html
Here we go “Rifles, Humvees and millions of rounds of ammo: Taliban celebrate their new American arsenal” [1].
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/politics/us-weapons-arsenal-taliban-afghanistan/index.html
The last I heard, he was stripped of all money he had with him on the plane (or helicopter) in Tajikistan and he continued on to Uzbekistan and then UAE or Oman.
Not surprisingly he ended up in UAE, where he will be given a platform to create instability in Afghanistan.
Did he wear a mask? – couldn’t resist