▲ 243 ▼ Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com) submitted 3 years ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 706 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) Here you go. Edit: Oh I may have missread that. Here is a source for the taliban using it as funding. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 53 points 3 years ago* The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim "The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan's GDP, the UNODC reported." "Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually" So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 53 points 3 years ago* The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim "The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan's GDP, the UNODC reported." "Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually" So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year permalink fedilink source parent