• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The place was ruined up after the first war with Russia, then America turned the place into a giant opium farm which does generate revenue but also a whole lot of cartel problems. People here don’t seem to want to admit it but basically the entire Afghan economy under America ran on drugs https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/06/talibans-successful-opium-ban-bad-afghans-and-world

    America also prevented the nation from developing by instating boy raping pedo warlords as police and giving them guns to terrorize the citizens with.

    There was some aid from Unicef and stuff which isn’t bad, but all in all the reason the economy is in shambles now since America added almost nothing of real value to the country and prevented it from developing itself.

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      11 months ago

      Fair enough then, but I think your viewpoint might be better described as “America kept them in ruin” instead of “America ruined them”. Semantics though, I’ll admit.