No, your graph just proves that the shit increased in the last number of years. Clearly taliban was in favor since they ran all the fields. That’s a nice logical fallacy you’ e got there
The editorializing on where the money goes doesn’t matter- I suspect it’s more MSM lies. There was no opium trade money in 2001 after it was banned by the Taliban and it flowed back after the invasion.
Opium production numbers would like to have a word with you.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=taliban%20opium%20graph&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99909e_2a76c5021bf544879e238e6c6afe3236.png/v1/fill/w_828,h_480,al_c/99909e_2a76c5021bf544879e238e6c6afe3236.png
No, your graph just proves that the shit increased in the last number of years. Clearly taliban was in favor since they ran all the fields. That’s a nice logical fallacy you’ e got there
Zero.
Before the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban banned poppy farming and production dropped to zero. After the invasion it jumped back up.
no
they bannedCIVILIANS from farming it
so they controlled supply
Exports dropped to functionally zero in 2001. Enter the US in October 2001 and production was almost immediately fully restored.
“Its opium production surged from around 180 tonnes in 2001 to more than 3,000 tonnes a year after the invasion, and to more than 8,000 by 2007.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan
The editorializing on where the money goes doesn’t matter- I suspect it’s more MSM lies. There was no opium trade money in 2001 after it was banned by the Taliban and it flowed back after the invasion.