Just twenty more years of war! In and out, tactical. We’ll do it right this time. We need more opium. I mean we care about the women of Afghanistan.
Ah yes, let’s stop caring about women and girls because USA bad.
I wonder who funded the Taliban and gave them the weapons that lead to this 🤔
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Foreign donations: The Taliban receive financial aid from certain countries, such as Pakistan, Iran and Russia, as well as private citizens from Pakistan and several Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar¹²⁴. This may account for a significant proportion of their revenue, possibly up to $500 million a year¹.
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Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, which can be refined to make heroin. The Taliban tax every stage of the drug production and smuggling process, from poppy farmers to traders¹²³. This is one of their main income sources, generating between $100 million and $400 million a year¹.
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Mining and trading minerals: The Taliban exploit the rich mineral resources of Afghanistan, such as copper, gold, iron, coal and gemstones. They extract and sell these minerals to local and foreign buyers, often through illegal channels¹²⁵. This may bring them another $100 million to $400 million a year¹.
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Taxation and extortion: The Taliban impose various taxes on the people and businesses in the areas they control, such as a 10% cultivation tax on opium farmers, a 2.5% wealth tax (zakat), and a 10% tax on harvests (ushr)¹²⁵. They also extort money from development and infrastructure projects, as well as from transport and telecommunication companies¹²⁵. This could add another $300 million to $500 million a year to their coffers¹…
Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/26/202 3 (1) Afghanistan: How do the Taliban make money? - BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46554097.
(2) Who funds the Taliban? Where the Afghanistan militants’ funding comes …
(3) Taliban - Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban.
(4) Who are the Taliban funded by? Inside its £1 billion fortune.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1477515/Taliban-funding-income-arms-Afghanistan-latest-evg.
(5) How is the Taliban funded: Where do the militant group get money and …
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/taliban-where-weapons-money-funds-b1911655.html.
(6) en.wikipedia.org.
That’s current funding. Who funded their startup back in the 80s?
Surely not the CIA!
Although the mujahideen were aided by the Pakistani, American, British, Chinese and Saudi governments, the mujahideen’s primary source of funding was private donors and religious charities throughout the Muslim world—particularly in the Persian Gulf. Jason Burke recounts that “as little as 25% of the money for the Afghan jihad was actually supplied directly by states.”
that’s not the exonerating testimony you think it is. 25% of the money, to say nothing of the proportion of arms, logistical or political support is a substantial contribution to a project that has locked Afghanistan in warlordism for 45 fucking years
I’m glad that the CIA has a good record of making it’s charitable funding expenditures public information
Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium
lol, lmao
i wonder what happened in 2001 in afghanistan…
Drug trade: Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium, which can be refined to make heroin.
The illicit drug trade isn’t just heroin, it’s moving opioids into India so they can be resold to the pharmaceutical industry for our legal-opioid epidemic.
Drug Trade
LMAO i trust you’ll believe a US government rag whining about the Taliban’s successful anti-opium campaign (opium the US puppet regime definitely disapproved of, right?)
Pay no attention to the Golden Triangle behind the curtain
Lmao the Taliban have practically eliminated the opium production in Afghanistan. Just like they did before the US invasion.
It was under US rule that opium production returned and surged.
So you’re talking made up bullshit.
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This is what you are asking for in Gaza if you support the Palestinians. They want this bullshit world wide, they don’t even hide it either.
Feel bad for these people who suffer under religious rule. It holds back so many world changing minds. I know women who escaped Iran, who’s now funding Islamic jihadism in the region, and gone on to literally world changing Alzheimer’s research that’s making people’s lives better. Had she stayed in one of these backwards shit hole misogynistic countries, we would never benefit from her mind. That’s only part of the problem with this garbage.
Sometimes I really need to have these news thrown on my face, is incredible that we tend to forget these situations most of the time
I love and promote life-long education for all peoples. This sucks. I can’t imagine how much it sucks to be told you “can’t.”
Yeah it’s so awful.
Me, an American reading this
Also get a look at the future of Ukraine, everybody
I don’t wish to disparage people’s spiritual beliefs, but I’m sorry nobody should have to go around wearing anything like this, no matter what faith you come from. You should have the freedom to EXIST as yourself and show who you are. This niqab stuff is abuse.
We need to pat ourselves on our back that we got out of there.
Were you raised Muslim? I’m an ex Catholic lol.
No religion.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In September 2021, a month after U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan following two decades of war, the Taliban announced that girls were barred from studying beyond sixth grade.
The Taliban have defied global condemnation and warnings that the restrictions will make it almost impossible for them to gain recognition as the country’s legitimate rulers.
Last week, U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva expressed concern that a generation of Afghan girls is falling behind with each day that passes.
Last week, an official in the Education Ministry said Afghan girls of all ages are allowed to study in religious schools known as madrassas, which have traditionally been boys-only.
In another part of Kabul, 13-year old Setayesh Sahibzada wonders what the future holds for her.
Analyst Muhammad Saleem Paigir warned that excluding women and girls from education will be disastrous for Afghanistan.
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Too bad US had to overthrow the socialist secular government in Afghanistan and then subject it to decades of unending destruction. US regime is directly responsible for everything we see happening in Afghanistan today.
They did have some not so great time trying to prevent Taliban from gaining power. It wasn’t very succesful.
And of course the Taliban itself is what the CIA turned Mujahideen into.
No, that’s on Afghans themselves. US armed the mujahideen fighters and a faction of that diverse group later on formed Taliban (and their opposition)
Learn some history ignoramus.
