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@NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

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 years ago
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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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    Here you go.

    Edit: Oh I may have missread that. Here is a source for the taliban using it as funding.

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      The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim

      “The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan’s GDP, the UNODC reported.”

      “Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually”

      So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year

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