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Afghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN (www.aljazeera.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What changed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The US pulled out

[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 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.