Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

Is it really a coincidence that as soon as the US pulled out of Afghanistan, the domestic American heroin supply has dried up? 🤔🇦🇫

We know, for instance, that the CIA ran the crack trade in the 1980s, and even intentionally introduced it to black communities across the US, using the money to fund death squads in Latin America.

ips-dc.org/the_cia_contra…

The US also turned Afghanistan from a small time player into by far-and-away the world's biggest ever narcostate.

See my @MintPressNews investigation into this:

mintpressnews.com/cia-afghanista…

@MintPressNews The Taliban actually eradicated opium production the year before the US invasion. But under the occupation, production rose to levels never seen before in world history.