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

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auth@lemmy.ml
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What changed

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Zastyion345@lemmy.ml
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SeaJ@lemm.ee
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Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.

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lntl@lemmy.sdf.org
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The US pulled out

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regul@lemm.ee
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They’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.

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

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zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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Anyone who thinks this is a bad thing needs to strongly reconsider their values.

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bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.net
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Doing more meaningful action on the ‘war on drugs’ in two years than the US ever did!

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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Huh. So they actually followed through.

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

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