Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
Imperialism and illicit drugs commonly go together. However, with Taliban opium eradication efforts in full effect, heroin is in short supply, and experts fear that a new fentanyl crisis could be brewing in the US.
9/11 happened because they stamped out the opium trade back in 2000. Doesn't everyone know this? The world runs on cocaine and opiates, they're the backbone of the global economy. The Taliban crushed the opium trade so they let 9/11 happen in order to justify an invasion. 20 years later when China invented fentanyl the entire reason for occupying Afghanistan disappeared along with the profitability of opiates obtained through agriculture.
The CIA always adapts and starts a new war to keep their drug money flowing.
I dindu nuffin ____ "Poppy" Bush
There was a reason they never allowed him access to their oil fields and rare earth minerals.
Maybe we should bring a couple boatloads of taliban over to Latin America and let them clean shit up down there. Hell, drop em off in California and Portland since no one else wants to deal with the problem
Send the muslims occupying Minnesota there too while we're at it
Wheat is just as profitable, and it starves the CIA of covert funding.
This throws a light on what the real problem was to begin with. This hit the DS hard financially.
The U.S. was guarding the opium poppy fields. Where do you think the money for all the black projects comes from? Bake sales?
I used to watch eradication flights overfly 20 hectare fields to go destroy 3 hectare fields. The USG was putting the smaller growers out of business to let the larger druglords corner the market.
USAID would also build raisin drying huts at 50k ea, with the idea of creating a value add on grapes to dissuade farmers from growing poppies. Then they would go unused, turn into sniper hides. US MIL would destroy them and USAID (State/CIA) would rebuild them the following spring.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan – the nation that until recently produced 90% of the world’s heroin – has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country. Western sources estimate an up to 99% reduction in some provinces. This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years. And, as global heroin supplies dry up, experts tell MintPress News that they fear this could spark the growing use of fentanyl – a drug dozens of times stronger than heroin that already kills more than 100,000 Americans yearly.
What are the farmers supposed to grow in that hellhole of a landscape, if 90% of their income is taken away
Food.
Obviously
They have plenty of oil and rare earth minerals.
Poppy farmers...are going to suddenly transition into the petroleum and mining industries
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The success of halting production of opium speaks for itself.
Chinese and Mexican fentanyl producers agree
Though it's still not clear how people without education who have done nothing but farm their whole lives are going to transition into the petroleum and mining industries. Is that like "Learn to code"?
If you look at the Middle East and the history. They actually made more money from war then farming.
Teach them a trade and they will become productive for the good of their Nation and the world.