>>14942008

I think this is also relevant:

November, 2017: "U.S. and Afghan warplanes bombed 10 Taliban-controlled opium production facilities in Helmand province Sunday in the first major use of new White House-approved authorities to target the insurgents’ revenue stream, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan said Monday. American B-52 bombers and stealth F-22 Raptor fighter jets struck eight drug labs where the Taliban was producing narcotics, including heroin, from the vast poppy fields that it controls in the region, said Army Gen. John Nicholson. The Afghan air force struck two other facilities with their American-provided A-29 Super Tucano attack planes and Afghan commandos conducted a raid on a prison in a mission tied to the operation dubbed Jagged Knife. Nicholson said the operation would continue to target much of the Taliban’s 400 to 500 other heroin-producing facilities throughout the coming weeks. The strikes were conducted under new rules granted in August as part of President Donald Trump’s reworked strategy for south Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan and India."

https://www.stripes.com/news/strikes-on-taliban-opium-facilities-first-major-use-of-new-bombing-authorities-in-afghanistan-1.498663

>>14942079

Maybe it's been an ongoing effort. Not sure when the apparent 'heroin shortage' began; fentanyl started becoming widely available on Philadelphia streets somewhere around 2015 or so, slowly overtaking heroin, but I have assumed that wasn't because of any lack of supply. Interesting how fentanyl appears to have suddenly been introduced years before serious actions against production in Afghanistan, conveniently replacing heroin, which has since been targeted to the point of now being in demand.

>>14942591

They were probably trying to get as close to the stage as possible. Nothing else mattered.

>>14942669

That's understandable, but possibly by providing a brief outline of all that has been put in place, they may realize there would be no reason for President Trump to have done so without big reason.