jerrab » 52 minutes ago » wrote: ↑
-------I------iSIS was difficult to defeat financially because it operated as a self-sustaining, proto-state rather than relying on typical foreign sponsors. Their massive and diverse economic portfolio, vast initial cash reserves, and reliance on underground transactional systems made them exceptionally resilient to disruption
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Massive Initial Windfall: When ISIS seized major Iraqi cities in 2014—including capturing branches of the Iraqi Central Bank in Mosul—it instantly secured an estimated $500 million to $1 billion in cash
That'll fight Russia and the US COMBINED for a week and a half.
What happened then?
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