c/worldnews · by NightOwl@lemm.ee · 2yAfghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UN https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/5/afghan-opium-poppy-cultivation-plunges-by-95-percent-under-taliban-un81 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world
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SeaJ@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 2y
They were perfectly fine with it over the past couple decades when it was helping keep them funded.
authed@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
What changed
Zastyion345@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
SeaJ@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.
lntl@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 2y
The US pulled out
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
The war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.
regul@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
They're the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
Huh. So they actually followed through.
I guess being highly ideological cuts both ways here, as per usual.