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Exactly as I said it would be.

And to all the numerous idiots that didn't have any fucking first hand knowledge of these fuckers, that kept insisting that "The taliban will outlaw opium production!" and "Opium production will go down under the taliban after the US leaves!"?

I know those fuckers and I fucking told you so. Suck it.

For the idiots that see everything as a jewish plot, opium was being grown in those same fields 2,200 years ago when Cyrus blew through there from Persia, and were still in operation when Alexander came through on his way to India 200 years later.

I spent 17 years in Afghanistan. I know those people. The taliban are not some monolithic block. They are a loose confederation of competing tribal interests. Think "The Sopranos" but in pakols. They are like any other human being. They want things. Things that can be only be bought for money. Opium is the only product they have that is highly marketable. I have seen them kill each other over market share just like any other tribal gangs over who gets what cut of the drug profits. I've seen taliban commanders begging their men not to walk away during the opium harvest season, because they could make 2-3 times per day harvesting opium as they can toting an AK as a taliban foot soldier (Yes. They get paid to fight. What? You thought they were doing it for free? Because "Muh Izlam!"? snerk).

An Afghan border guard captain, working on the Iranian border, makes about $4,000 USD per day just on the "excise taxes" he makes per kilo going out. That's more than the POTUS. Nobody just walks away from that kind of money.

Now consider their costs. They are landlocked. No ports. Everything comes in from surrounding countries who are all in competition with each other to see how much they milk they can get out of the cow. Every consumer good gets "taxed" multiple times on it's way to Kabul. So they are being constantly fucked by everybody. So that, to give an example, by the time a diesel Toyota Hilux truck gets to Kabul, it will cost about $80,000 USD.

Anyone who thought that the taliban were going to just stop producing the one thing that they can trade for cash because "Muh, izlam." is guilty of wishful thinking of the worst sort. And anyone who thought that the opium trade in Afghanistan was a jewish/Mossad/CIA/us.gov plot that suddenly sprang into existence in 1980 is a baby duck who thinks history just started today.

And guess what? 2,000 years from now the descendants of those same people will still be growing opium in the same fields. Who are you going to blame it on then? And if your opinion on the matter has been formed by what you read on the internet, not from first-hand experience, do yourself a favor and keep it to yourself. "It is far better to remain silent and be suspected of being a fool..."

*Exactly* as I said it would be. And to all the numerous idiots that didn't have any fucking first hand knowledge of these fuckers, that kept insisting that "The taliban will outlaw opium production!" and "Opium production will go down under the taliban after the US leaves!"? I know those fuckers and I fucking told you so. Suck it. For the idiots that see everything as a jewish plot, opium was being grown in those same fields 2,200 years ago when Cyrus blew through there from Persia, and were still in operation when Alexander came through on his way to India 200 years later. I spent 17 years in Afghanistan. I know those people. The taliban are not some monolithic block. They are a loose confederation of competing tribal interests. Think "The Sopranos" but in pakols. They are like any other human being. They want things. Things that can be only be bought for money. Opium is the only product they have that is highly marketable. I have seen them kill each other over market share just like any other tribal gangs over who gets what cut of the drug profits. I've seen taliban commanders begging their men not to walk away during the opium harvest season, because they could make 2-3 times per day harvesting opium as they can toting an AK as a taliban foot soldier (Yes. They get paid to fight. What? You thought they were doing it for free? Because "Muh Izlam!"? snerk). An Afghan border guard captain, working on the Iranian border, makes about $4,000 USD *per day* just on the "excise taxes" he makes per kilo going out. That's more than the POTUS. Nobody just walks away from that kind of money. Now consider their costs. They are landlocked. No ports. Everything comes in from surrounding countries who are all in competition with each other to see how much they milk they can get out of the cow. Every consumer good gets "taxed" multiple times on it's way to Kabul. So they are being constantly fucked by everybody. So that, to give an example, by the time a diesel Toyota Hilux truck gets to Kabul, it will cost about $80,000 USD. Anyone who thought that the taliban were going to just stop producing the one thing that they can trade for cash because "Muh, izlam." is guilty of wishful thinking of the worst sort. And anyone who thought that the opium trade in Afghanistan was a jewish/Mossad/CIA/us.gov plot that suddenly sprang into existence in 1980 is a baby duck who thinks history just started today. And guess what? 2,000 years from now the descendants of those same people will *still* be growing opium in the same fields. Who are you going to blame it on then? And if your opinion on the matter has been formed by what you read on the internet, not from first-hand experience, do yourself a favor and keep it to yourself. "It is far better to remain silent and be suspected of being a fool..."

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The "northern alliance" are nothing more than opium warlords. The Taliban came after them because they believe drugs are unislamic. After 9/11 the CIA played the American people to side with the Drug lords to attack the Taliban and restore Heroin production. Now that we are gone, the Taliban are consolidating power but the drug lords are still armed and supplied. They will go back to fighting each other as soon as the Taliban have control of what they did before. The CIA pulled us out of Afghanistan only because Fentanyl is cheaper to produce and the Chinese distribution channels are more stable. They left the weapons behind so they could continue to foster conflict for profit in the region. The only reason the US was there was for the heroin. How we left proves the point.

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The Northern Alliance doesn't control the opium fields or production. Never did. They're in the North. Dari territory. Three reasons:

1) They don't have the soil for it. 2) They don't have the climate for it. 3) And since opium poppies require irrigation, they sure as shit don't have the water for it.

That's why the majority of the opium is grown along the Helmand river. In Helmand Province. In the South. Pashto territory.

But thanks for participating anyway.

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Here is a simple to find . You are either uninformed or intentionally lying about US involvement in the heroin production in Afghanistan.

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Opium is a relatively water intensive crop. That's why the fields are always nears a reliable water source, like a river. One of the reasons that they are reporting an "increase" in harvests is because for the last several years the whole region has been in a drought. Opium production dropped to less than half. Which also generated friction between the taliban and the farmers because the taliban insisted upon taxing them according to their square acreage under cultivation, not by the amount of opium actually being produced.

But that's not on the internet, so you wouldn't know that would you?

The drought was so bad that the Iranian Quds Force was offering the taliban advanced weapons and support in exchange for them blowing up the dam on the Helmand river to increase the rate of flow of water into Iran, and the taliban said no.

But they never posted that on the internet either, so how could you know?

Stop trying to argue your, no doubt, vast sum of stored "internet knowledge" with someone who was there and watched all of this happen right outside his door for years. There are vast amounts of pertinent data that you can only learn by being there, talking to people and seeing it happen with your own eyes. Which, of course, you never will.

"When experience gainsays, theory should remain silent ."