How Heroin Defeated America in Afghanistan | The War on Drugs
October 30, 2021
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as posted by the channelIn 2021, the world watched as the US military retreated chaotically from Afghanistan after 20-years of war.
But in Afghanistan, America was defeated as much by the illegal heroin trade as by the Taliban itself. This is how heroin has fundamentally reshaped Afghanistan as a country for decades – and how you can’t understand the West’s failure there without it.
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