they didn't win because they didn't have a goal. Their plan was just "Idk just sort of hang around taking casulties and killing civilians for a couple decades until we decide we're bored"
it's not surprising that plan didn't have results it didn't even plan to get results
The plan was to extract a bunch of rare earth minerals and grow a ton of opium poppies to give to the Sacklers so they could get people hooked on oxycontin. Billions of dollars of minerals were successfully stolen and the opioid crisis exploded, stealing over a trillion dollars from working class Americans and another trillion and a half from the state in the 20 years since then.
they didn't win because they didn't have a goal. Their plan was just "Idk just sort of hang around taking casulties and killing civilians for a couple decades until we decide we're bored"
it's not surprising that plan didn't have results it didn't even plan to get results
The plan was to extract a bunch of rare earth minerals and grow a ton of opium poppies to give to the Sacklers so they could get people hooked on oxycontin. Billions of dollars of minerals were successfully stolen and the opioid crisis exploded, stealing over a trillion dollars from working class Americans and another trillion and a half from the state in the 20 years since then.
I… did not connect the opioid crisis and Afghani poppy fields until now. This is what zero material analysis does to a motherfucker.
Here's a document on other resource extraction and exploitation
Glad to have confirmation of what we already suspected
I've read that during the time of peak US occupation, some insane majority percentage of the world's heroin supply came from Afghanistan
:Mayo-Pete's-Mineral-Map-of-Afghanistan: