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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)

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[-] automater@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Are there any moderators on here? Mint press news.... Jesus

[-] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

When you are so deeply propagandized that seeing any different viewpoint causes you to cry for help.

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[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Remember the GIs and CIA tracking heroin during the Vietnam war. I don’t! fishe

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Gee, i wonder

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Weird headline. The US was trafficking heroin.

idk if the article mentions it but Afghanistan has often had a horrible opiate problem. The Taliban crackdown on poppy cultivation is one of a very, very small number of "I guess I have to give it to them in this one very specific instance".

And as near as I can tell there's nothing cynical about this. The Taliban wants to stop local opioid production because of the horrific harm it does to Afghanis.

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