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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 年前

Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along

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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along

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NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 年前
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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.
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  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    80% of worlds’s opioids consumption is in USA which has 4,6% of worlds population.

    That’s what they are doing, waging Third Opium War on their own people.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    LOL. Raises questions for whom? Libs? Everyone knows what the fucking USA was doing all along. Except the libs.

    NB: both USA Rs and Ds are both liberal in their political philosophy and are both subject to this critique.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    A reminder that the Taliban only exists because the US funded the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      To be technical, did the US actually fund the Taliban when it got started? The Pakistani intelligence service did, and the Taliban were only able to take power because of the US-backed Mujahideen alliance rapidly descended into civil war when the Soviets pulled out and the Afghan government fell, but idk.

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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        But wasn’t Pakistan also thoroughly a US puppet at this point?

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    lmao, no it doesn’t. the US didn’t go to Afghanistan to eradicate opium. the US didn’t give a shit about it at all, lmao.

    do tankies so blindly hate the US that they’ll give the Taliban a bj just to try to make the US look bad? wow…

    • NightOwl@lemm.eeOP
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      The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War is a summary of the Washington Post’s reporting on Afghanistan, specifically on the US government’s own internal assessments from all levels of the military and political administration. In it, you’ll find this quote:

      Of all the failures in Afghanistan, the war on opium ranked among the most feckless. During two decades, the United States spent more than $9 billion on a dizzying array of programs to deter Afghanistan from supplying the world with heroin. None of the measures worked. In many cases, they made things worse.

      The US doesn’t need “tankies” or anyone else to make themselves look bad as far as the Afghan drug trade goes.

      • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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        lmao, so? we get it. you hate the US. what’s your point? just to come here and whine about it?

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Ha you were conclusively proven wrong and didn’t even blink. A brain so smooth no facts can get stuck on it.

          spoiler

          Post another 🤓 “I was on the debate team” graphic, that’s how discussions work

        • rogrodre [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          brainworms

          • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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            I’m unimpressed by your self-portrait

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