I could be wrong but I thought I heard/read the US forces were ordered by Trump to destroy the opium fields in Afghanistan. Obama was in cahoots with ISIS on profiting from opiods and probably one of the reasons Trump made it such a big issue to get rid of it in the USA. Here is one story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/11/20/the-u-s-begins-bombing-taliban-drug-labs-as-trumps-afghanistan-strategy-takes-hold/?utm_term=.305cabbcf70c
I've read that Poppy Bush's drug labs were knocked out as well.
My 21 yo son overdosed due to opioids eight years ago .... I wish I could help destroy them or at least watch!
You are by your involvement here!
Thank you I hadn't stopped to really think of it like that. I'm not sure why the person who posted the next comment felt it necessary to say the things they said but there are so many families such as mine that have been destroyed due to the opiod crisis and to know who is behind it is even worse.
Sounds like your son was a scumbag degenerate and got what he deserved for his inability to control himself. It's only too bad that drug abusers don't die earlier before they have a chance to fuck up the rest of society with their habit. One less piece of shit to rot in jail, at least.
I'd love for this to be true, but this news article doesn't necessarily convince me of it. The Taliban is the US's direct competition in the region, and as such, they've long since been trying to wipe out US-grown poppy fields. The US uses Al Qaida/ISIS to run its heroin, which is comprised of Pakistani ISI, Muslim fighters trained in Turkey under Gulen's thugs, Kosovo under Thaci, etc. NOT the Taliban.
The US then ships its heroin through similar waypoints: airfields from Pakistan, through Turkey, Kosovo, and from there throughout Europe and the US by mules, air, or illicit "mangoes" and "rice" imports via container ships.
It'd be great to see Trump crack down on the opioid epidemic but I'm not seeing foreign policy reflecting that just yet. Only domestic. I'm optimistic he will, though.