US Military Targets Taliban Opium Trade For First Time

foxnews.com/world/2017/11/20/us-targets-taliban-drug-labs-under-new-afghan-strategy.html

Is this proof Trump is not controlled by the deep state? Like how was this not a strategy for the last 16 years? Clearly Obama and Bush protected the opium trade to keep the Taliban funded and keep the country in a perpetual state of war. Keep that military industrial complex happy.

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Great. Now our taxes will go up to cover the cost of running the CIA.

Thanks Trump.

?!?!?!?!?

DAMN. Never thought I would see this.

The heroin trade in Afghanistan is worth 1 trillion annually... its the CIA's bread and butter.

Sup Forums said Opium was the reason we went in to begin with?. Why the fuck is Sup Forums always backtracking.

>Is this proof Trump is not controlled by the deep state?
no

Gearing up to move to a domestically produced HEMP POWERED USA BABY

BASED

>it's an America tries to take over the afghanistan heroin trade again episode
hate reruns, tbqh

We've had control of it for 16 years, newfag. Or do you think a heroin epidemic can just happen without a poppy field?

They are bombing the fields and facilities Chaim. try harder next time

a huge chunck of the drug trade globally comes from afghanistan, if they're going after fields instead of protecting them it's a good sign in my book.

>claiming that the Opiod crisis in the US is in any way related to Afghanistan.
All of the problems in the US is from Heroin manufactured and pushed in by Mexican Cartels.
Anybody claiming otherwise has a brain but isn't using it for unspecified reasons.

Fucking shit they are already doing cartel shit.

Did the talibans miss a payment or something?

Headlines in the media is not proof of anything.

>Taliban Opium Trade

Taliban were fundamentalists and had nearly eradicated poppy production in Afghanistan before we came along to give them (((freedom))).

Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in the world. Our drug epidemic rose just like it did during the Vietnam war. Every time we invade one of these places our drug use rises.

>implying they have any trouble moving tons of heroin on cargo planes without impunity
lel

We did that during the first Iraq invasion, right up until the farmers and refiners finally got in line or were replaced by CIA approved individuals
It was a fairly big talking point for like a year, I remember my friend at the time was just starting to get into heavier drugs and was compliany because the price just skyrocketed because like 1/3rd of the processors were dead or Americanized

And then surprisingly they made a killing selling it to fund the insurgency after the artificial drought they induced on local farmers, where the price of a kg of opium rose nearly tenfold.

Hmm it's almost like they're glorified drug dealers and they push out propaganda to make retards like you believe they are some pure anti-opium holy warriors

>durr it's always south America, goy!
If you knew anything, you would know the opiod epidemic started because of the overprescription of pain pills. The pharmaceutical companies bought almost all of their opium from Afghanistan, as it was recently captured and thus cheap.

Don't talk about things you know nothing about.

heroin epidemic which causes more crime and state money wasting or more taxes?

>The pharmaceutical companies bought almost all of their opium from Afghanistan

You are a brain dead moron. All of our legal opium is grown in India, Turkey and Australia, and that's where all the pharmaceutical companies buy them from. There is way more than enough there.

I've heard all this before, many, many times

Shills came out in great forces when threads about this popped up back when Trump ordered more troops to Afghanistan, they attacked every poster claiming that his intentions was to target the drug trade. CIA niggers btfo.

lol imagine being this retarded

>mfw Trump is unironically /ourguy/
lads, I hope you understand that this is the exact opposite of what the US had been doing in the past. Trump truly is draining the swamp.

>being this naive
how cute

This. Same with ISIS, the shitstains we're supposed to fear as 'cold blooded killers on a holy crusade' are just worthless drug dealing plebs, often 3rd generation Muslim trash.

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>being this retarded
>not knowing how much opium is produced in afghanistan
>not knowing that its literally all mixed bag shit farmers grow to make a living because they can't grow anything else
>believing pharma companies will buy these low purity shit crops and ship them in huge airplanes instead of legally growing them in a lab for maximum profit and maximum purity
>not knowing that opium supply in the world is vastly, vastly, VASTLY higher than opium demand
>believing in occupywallstreet-tier bluepill like US invaded Afghanistan for opium despite 1% of all heroin seized in the US coming from Afghanistan and the rest Mexico
>being THIS retarded

We aren't you fucking retard reread the post.

We protect the opium trade because we are the biggest importers of opium. Osama bin Laden had all of Afghanistan stop harvesting poppy plants in mid 2000, by 2002 we were in Afghanistan.

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Some 95% or more of the world's opium is grown in Afghanistan.

or he could just...you know...cut 90% of CIA activities

The Taliban are nothing like ISIS, they are literally just isolationist Pashtun nationalists who want to protect their country from degeneracy, just like how Assad, Gaddafi and Saddam wanted to keep their nations secure from Western intervention.

Thanks to the US invasion. Why does America keep fucking up every Middle Eastern country?

We protected opium in the country because it's the only economy those shitskins have, and that the time we were trying to 'country build,' we are not in that phase anymore. We can't fund cotton because it competes with us, and nothing else of significance grows there. Fucking hell, is everything a conspiracy with you guys?

American soldiers must look like bipolar lunatics with personality disorder.

One moment, you want to remove the opium, but the they invade you and point their gun at you to protect opium.
The next moment they point the gun at you to make you remove the opium, and blame you for the opium trade.

And 0% of that opium is legally used to make prescription pills.

>drugs delt by the cia cause people to be criminals
Better let the US military controll more opiats, that will help

Because trying to build a country that is already made out of dirt isn't even worth it in the end.
>be afghan opium farmer
>be completely legal source of income for afghan farmer
>foreigner invades country, burns your only means of living
>life's work gone
>join taliban
>months later
>neighbor's opium farm is now being protected because foreigner realizes it's one of the only ways to make money in country
>suicide bomb them out of fury

None of these idiots know what opium is, how it is manufactured into heroin, what quantities you need to make prescription pills, global heroin markets, etc. That takes too much thinking and drawing conclusions. It's simpler to say "hurr durr we invaded Afghanistan for da opium thats why there are so many ODing now hurr durr" because that makes them feel like they discovered some great truth, connected some dots they shouldn't have, and now they are special snowflakes in the know of a grand conspiracy. Reminds me of the babby's first pseudo-redpill "We invaded Iraq for oil"

Try harder you glow in the dark nigger.

There is "no taliban' opium trade fucking fake news jackasses CIA GROWS it army/marine PROTECT IT been that way for 17 years. GTFO OF AFGHANISTAN

The CIA won't like this.

You are saying that like you are an insider with all the information, I highly doubt you are. Wouldn't surprise me at all if opium from Afghanistan made it into the "legal" trade, actually it would make mroe sense than not.

Because it's beneficial to them, US only cared about Afghanistan the moment the opium trade died out thanks to the Talibans.

When having a separate war on drugs and war on terror isn't enough and you have to merge them into one to get double the tax dollars.

Ah, le taliban because of us foreign policy meme. Well meme'd my noam chomsky))).

CIA nigger itt

Literally, how is trump not /ourguy/ at this point. You couldn't even, you literally couldn't even have pictured this under a bush, or obama cause they were so controlled it wasn't even funny. May god protect this president. But even so unironically asking what are the chances they might pull a Kennedy on him at this point? Because the deepstate has gotta be in full panic mode at this point.

We literally started Taliban with pakishits and saudifucks when the Russians were in the country.. Not only funded them, but fucking trained them.

Up literally, shills are gona be out in force with this one. They're probably on red alert. Bump though for this big happening. Literally shutting down the opium fields, i thought i'd never see that happen.

It's literally the most simple premise in the world, even a retard could understand it.

>destabilized country where dirt poor sandnigger farmers grow opium of various, usually shit quality
>violence every fucking day
>most of the farmers themselves are users so they fuck it up all the time
>facilities to purify the poppies are basically shacks with buckets and cardboard
>add in the logistics problems of shipping these literallywho poppies thousands and thousands of miles away, illegally and undercover of course

vs.

>pharmaceutical-grade opium grown in controlled conditions
>in actual labs with people that actually wash their hands
>in countries that don't have to worry IEDs just walking down the street
>you can control for purity and make the purest product in the world to get maximum profit out of it
>when all is said and done literally just ship it out because it's legal and allowed to do so

Now tell me why any sane pharmaceutical rep would say "Give me the Afghan opium"

Another bump for this happening.

Yeah, it just goes into making heroin, which is what is killing people, retard.

This means nothing. After the initial invasion of Afghanistan opium production rocketed. So much was produced stockpiles were created. Opium will keep for a very long time. The buried stockpiles in the afghan desert will still keep the world with a supply of heroin for DECADES. The only thing that will change will be the price. The price will increase therefore increasing the profits of heroin traders. Unless the buried stockpiles are destroyed nothing will change. I would suggest rounding up both taliban AND cianiggers and begin ruthless torture untill the location of ALL stockpiles are disclosed. Stockpiles already in the US and other countries cannot be rulled out.

>Literally shutting down the opium fields

What's that going to do for the opium fields in Mexico and Colombia where 99% of our heroin comes from?

>heroin
Wrong, afgan opium is used by big farma to give housewives their valium and oxycotton

And that heroin is completely and totally grown in Mexico and Colombia, and sold to us by the Mexicans, you fucking retard.

10kg opium = 1kg heroin

they have been targeting the poppy fields for years guys. Quit larping

AH, literally being this delusional.

Mkay, the shills are here. But it doesn't matter, were taking this country back.

You're also a stupid fuck who wants a single reason for the invasion

Explain why since the initial invasion opium production in Afghanistan has been at the highest levels ever in history

>opium is used by big farma to give housewives their valium

Canadian intellectual.

How are you taking anything back when you are fucking around in the Middle East, trying to impose American rule in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, wasting trillions of tax dollars in the process and creating more refugee hordes by perpetuating an endless conflict?

yes but the global trade is relevant too.
mexicans are too stupid and not really as much of a threat than others. (please dont ever be fooled by mexican cartel smuggling "ingenuity")
however, what people really dont understand is how fucked up european criminals are. all this muslim terrorist shit is really the product of a muslim crime mafia. and its connected with russians and all kinds of other shit
its literally a satanic clusterfuck, quite different than the slow chagas infected retards we get out here in the US

>muhh afghanistan = opioid crisis in america

Took out that column huh?

AH HA HA HA HA AH, omg, a larp, shill, or unironic, still good.

Everybody knows the opioid epidemic was created by all those mexican drug cartels issuing prescriptions to americans

Goddamn it you idjit. Afghan opium is turned to heroin in mexico. How fucking dim are you, anyway?

Answer the question you fucking retard, why are you still in the Middle East and fucking shit up around the world?

Trump is literally forming a Israeli-Saudi coalition so he can fuck with Iran even more in the Middle East, how is that putting America first?

And where does the fentanyl come from? What country is China literally right next to?

>imagine trying this hard to fit in
you niggers glow in the dark

BUILD

>hey juan we got all these poppy fields here, ideal growing conditions, we've been growing these poppies for centuries, we dont have to pay gringos to ship them in from 12,000 miles away, let's start cultivating it into heroin
>NO CARLOS WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE CIA PLANE TO DROP OFF MILLIONS OF KILOS OF POPPIES FROM AFGHANISTAN

Mmmm, assuming this isn't just b8, i don't care for muh middle east wars, cause it's literally just a white man's graveyard, but come on you'd literally have to be thick headed, to not see how this fucks with the deepstate.

War is often a race to the bottom, fag

It's like Japan foreswearing the use of nukes and then shinzo Abe comes along and militarizes Japan again because of the threat of war in korea

We'll never know about the Taliban's seriousness in getting rid of the opium trade because America gave them a desperate need for money when they invaded the Taliban's country

Jesus fucking christ literal 80 iq retards on this board. Fentanyl comes from Afghanistan, really?

because, blebbit, (((they))) are always doing that when suffrage is threatened in a country, until democracy is restored.
because the majority of the people are dumb and easily to influence, can't think for themselves, and (((they))) control the (((media))) and (((they))) control the majority, (((they))) tell what party to vote and then (((they))) control everything.
also, oil.

It was the CIA who encouraged opium production in the eighties to help finances the war against the russians. The year before US invaded Afghanistan the Taliban banned poppy growing and cut production by 90%. In the years following the invasion production rocketed to levels never before seen in history.

Take note of the production for '91 -the year Taliban banned prodution. Now note production since US invasion

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Like the president has any authority over the CIA

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sure thing, koch

>Is this proof Trump is not controlled by the deep state


no you fucking idiot

on one of my tours there in 08, we spent a shit load of time cutting down poppy fields in the kunar valley. we should have salted the dirt

Kennedy tried it and look what happened

No. It's their main source of income. And opium production there hurts Russia.

I was about to post this same info. Opium production has skyrocketed since USA occupied Afghanistan. So has marijuana production. I've seen plenty of comments by troops talking about how they were assigned to guard the weed/poppy fields as well.

americans fight only for

G.O.D

I was under the impression that almost all pharmaceuticals were synthesized in a lab and that raw opium is not needed to make opiates anymore and has been that way for many decades.

Both exist. Stuff like fentanyl is synthetic but organically sourced opiates still exist as well. Why spend lots of money making something yourself when nature can make it cheap and easy for you?

CIA Niggers ain't gonna be happy. Good. Fuck the CIA.