The US armed the Taliban in the first place. Afghanistan is a trillion-dollar racket for arms manufacturers and oil companies, there is no humanitarian pretense as the question implies.
I think it's less than 90% now that Taliban have been effectively banning it. But during the decade where American occupation and allied forces controlled most of the country, heroin production increased to outpace any other global supplier.
That's depressing; quick googling shows that about 12% of the land in Afghanistan is arable, out of 252k miles squared. Doing some math, at its peak better than 7% of all arable land was dedicated to opium...that's insane.
It is from the torture playbook of the French and US state to finance their operations and bribes with illegal - often drug related - deals and securing, setting up etc. of productive facilities. The profits generates are used (on themselves - lol) and on repressing others (e.g. torturing people and killing up to 1 in 2) 'off the books'.
There really is just no limit to how low capitalists will go, is there? I keep learning, but am still shocked ever single time by how bad it really is. and I probably don't even know the half of it.
The US armed the Taliban in the first place. Afghanistan is a trillion-dollar racket for arms manufacturers and oil companies, there is no humanitarian pretense as the question implies.
Don't forget all that sweet, sweet heroin; 90% of the global supply
What? 90%?
I think it's less than 90% now that Taliban have been effectively banning it. But during the decade where American occupation and allied forces controlled most of the country, heroin production increased to outpace any other global supplier.
nothing fucked me up more than seeing the graph in this article. Like, 2001 it is almost eradicated after a Taliban ban only to be immediately restarted by the Yanks. Here it is on wikipedia if you can stand them over the Br*'ish
That's depressing; quick googling shows that about 12% of the land in Afghanistan is arable, out of 252k miles squared. Doing some math, at its peak better than 7% of all arable land was dedicated to opium...that's insane.
CW don't read, it is horrible:
It is from the torture playbook of the French and US state to finance their operations and bribes with illegal - often drug related - deals and securing, setting up etc. of productive facilities. The profits generates are used (on themselves - lol) and on repressing others (e.g. torturing people and killing up to 1 in 2) 'off the books'.
There really is just no limit to how low capitalists will go, is there? I keep learning, but am still shocked ever single time by how bad it really is. and I probably don't even know the half of it.
I know, right?
I hate it here.