NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoAfghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UNwww.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down17
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minus-squareZastyion345@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoChina came with some money. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-join-chinas-belt-road-forum-elevating-ties-2023-10-14/
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoSimilar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agoThe war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.
minus-squareregul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoThey’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.
What changed
China came with some money.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-join-chinas-belt-road-forum-elevating-ties-2023-10-14/
Similar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.
The US pulled out
The war ended. They always said it was a temporary measure to raise funds for their insurgency, and I guess they meant it.
They’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.