this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023

227 points (74.2% liked)

World News

32285 readers

1 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

jackmarxist@lemmy.ml

zephyreks@lemmy.ml

OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml

227

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

submitted 2 years ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

672 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Riyria@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can. It harms the U.S. government’s war against the poor. How is the prison industrial complex going to continue to thrive if the largest exporter of opium poppy in the world doesn’t export opium producing poppy anymore?