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Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were perfectly fine with it over the past couple decades when it was helping keep them funded.

[–] authed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What changed

[–] Zastyion345@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

The US pulled out

[–] regul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They're the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

The war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Anyone who thinks this is a bad thing needs to strongly reconsider their values.

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Doing more meaningful action on the 'war on drugs' in two years than the US ever did!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Huh. So they actually followed through.

I guess being highly ideological cuts both ways here, as per usual.