WTF story of the day : The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban is Bad for Afghans and the World

For over 20 Years US and NATO act as de-facto nacro-traffickijg Army in Afghanistan. The millions of tons of opium and Heroin the flooded the market in neighboring countries and all the way to Ireland and Finland, destroyed local economies and lives of 10s of millions of people and created a lost generation in those countries addicted to drugs, outcastes from society, life in misery and death

Now, we have American Peace Institute telling us that ending the trade is bad for Afghanistan and the world.

It is not a joke, this is the disaster capitalism speaking.

Enjoy waving the flag of #US and #NATO high up and call those who served in Afghanistan for heroes, because this is the real reason Afghanistan was invaded, not the #Taliban.

The ban is not a counter-narcotics victory and will have negative economic and humanitarian consequences, potentially leading to a refugee crisis.

The Taliban have done it again: implementing a nearly complete ban against cultivation of opium poppy — Afghanistan’s most important agricultural product — repeating their similarly successful 2000-2001 prohibition on the crop. But the temptation to view the current ban in an overly positive light — as an important global counter-narcotics victory — must be avoided. This is particularly true given the state of Afghanistan’s economy and the country’s humanitarian situation. Indeed, the ban imposes huge economic and humanitarian costs on Afghans and it is likely to further stimulate an outflow of refugees. It may even result in internal challenges for the Taliban itself. And, in the long run, it will not have lasting counter-narcotics benefits within Afghanistan or globally.

#Afghanistan #Opium #Heroin #Economy #politics #Economy #Drugs #WTF #NotTheOnion #DrugTrafficking

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-world