What is a good/reasonable response to this argument?
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
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’.