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Seems to me the USAs opium problem got a lot bigger while the military were present in Afghanistan, it will be interesting to see if the opium habit is some wha
by teknopaul 5y ago
Seems to me the USAs opium problem got a lot bigger while the military were present in Afghanistan, it will be interesting to see if the opium habit is some what curtailed by the swift exit.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> opium problem got a lot bigger while the military were present in Afghanistan Is there any credible evidence that Afghan opium made it to the U.S., much less to its pharmaceutical companies?
- nostrademons 5y agoI mean, basically every trend of the past 20 years got a lot better while the military were present in Afghanistan, by definition. Internet use and smartphone use exploded during the Afghanistan war, Netflix use got much higher, social division got much worse, and asset prices got much higher. I doubt many of those had much to do with the Afghan war (except possibly the last, with low interest rates to finance government war spending inflating asset prices).