This data is made up, nobody knows the reality. This video is American propaganda to take eyes off the fact that USA invaded a lot of desert nations including Afghanistan for YEARS! And USA created the Taliban and is funding it from your taxes. Why do you think they left the military equipment there? th-cam.com/video/s9j1H330Nmo/w-d-xo.html
lol im Afghan and all the addicts are being forced into a room for 2 weeks or a month away from their family whether they like or not, if they resist they will whooped, Taliban are destroying the poppy fields
@@ZyroAniCapped they whip the addicts but if you think they'll continue to destroy the fields just look at their past and they'll soon be back to allowing opium cultivation whilst taxing it and the traffikers again as they need and want that 100's of millions of dollars to get rich. Bunch of hypocrites like most of the worlds leaders.
@@ZyroAniCapped Thank god the Taliban actually have morals! Just think, we could've completely bypassed the heroin epidemic if we had just never ousted them from power to begin with!
@@repletereplete8002 The Taliban follow Sharia. It is forbidden to make a living from haram commodities. The Taliban answer to Sharia law, not your caricatures of them. Have some respect, they whopped your military and even gave them humiliating deadlines to pack up their operations or else. And your military complied, ie "terms of surrender". when has your country ever won a war? Makes me doubt the official WW2 narrative.
Fun fact: It's not illegal to grow opium poppies in the U.S. as long as they're for "ornamental" purposes. Just don't get caught scoring them or having any drug paraphernalia in your home or cops can make a case for "drug manufacturing".
Every supermarket sells bread with poppy seeds. Pure poppy seeds are sold as spices and the price is a dollar per 25g. The poppy seeds are harvested with special precautions to reduce the amount of opium.
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Everyone knows cryptocurrency is not a gamble majorly for the extremely rich.. It's an invest'ment to compete with the rich and the government. Everyone can do it no restrictions
100% solo. It's a tool the CIA uses to control big city's and the people in it, now they turned up the import and it's effecting every corner of the world.
Catholic Church recruitment was for CIA operatives (Catholic Intelligence Agency)who defended the fields for war funds to conquer communism all over the world..
There was something like 93,000 overdose deaths in the United States during 2020. Vietnam we here in the United States lost something like 59.000. I mean wtf I don’t even have but 2 high school friends that are still alive because of it. I feel like I went to war without even leaving the soil of my town. I’m 10 years clean this past February, ya ya ya i know good for me and thanks..
One US marine officer replied during a patrol with a journalist with regards to the vast fields of poppies and why the ISAF wasn’t taking steps to curb or destroy the crops. Reason he gave was very logical and simple: Our task is to root out and engage the insurgents, not take away the livelihoods of poor farmers whose entire families depend on it. If we do take harsh measures, it is likely that the same farmer or his family members would join the insurgency or not inform us that there is an IED ahead on the next road we are driving into. Those are ground realities that soldiers have no control over with, with members of the western appointed government in Kabul having a hand in the trade themselves!
Doesnt make sense when thousands of innocent people were murdered. Im sure they too wished for a better way of living. Dont fool yourself, america profited from it.
@@xtscarfacem8255 Thats ironic because why do immigrants from all over the world keep coming to this bad country called America!!!! Maybe we rank lower in some things compared to other FIRST WORLD countries in Europe but on the world stage we’re a pretty good country and for most of our history America has been pretty good except for minorities at first but now there getting all the power which I don’t care but it’s true
I enlisted, then 10 days later my brother died in my arms from an opiate overdose after coming to live with me straight from rehab. The Army put me in a “grieving period”, and during that time I learned about our soldiers defending the poppy fields that fuel the pharmaceutical industries opiate products that killed my brother, and I dissolved my enlistment. Now my nephews are enlisting because they feel like they have no opportunities, and I tried to warn them, but NeoAmerican propaganda is stronger than any argument I could levy, sadly. If only I had a multi billion dollar budget to create Hollywood movies and tv shows like the CIA does, I could probably change people’s minds. Also, don’t kid yourselves about illegal heroin. The Taliban isn’t row boating heroin to the cartels in South America. The CIA is shipping it to them directly on sanctioned cargo planes and cargo ships to feed their black budget operations. We are the bad guys, stop deluding yourselves.
Vietnam WAS the highest producer at time of that war HINT HINT Afghanistan became biggest producer in the 80s. Hint hint! Harvard, Princeton and a ton of other institutions in America where built with 100% opium money. Look it up. Bush family. I'm not even joking, it's there look it up. No conspiracy. Our countrys founded on DOPE
Maybe if they didn't give guns cash or felt the need to be in everyone's business they won't have that issue would they?stop being a typical American anyone knows and sees that country was built on deceit and lies.get with it
Dear nameless reporter, please ask them to give us a name bc you are one of their best reporters and deserve credit. very eloquent and clear. thank you for all your narrations. your voice is soothing and vice is one of the current, news outlets worth listening to. #thankyou
*million, she said million, not billion even though the subtitle said that. A billion people did not die in 40 years of fighting in Afghanistan. Roughly a million or more did.
kinda how its not basic education to really beat over the head of kids in america....that russia fought for and against the axis....and lost the most casualties in wwII....nor the fact that allied forces in europe only saw americans for around a years time....yet mericans like to think we fought nazis for 5-10 years....SMDH. The list goes on and its boarderless bc the providing class is also boarderless and responsible for this "information age" level of willful ignorance
@TuPut AhMadre The story is people buy shady health care drugs in Mexico and other places because they can’t afford it in America, the drugs are laced with addictive drugs and thus creates these users become helplessly addicted. If the system was fixed people could buy medicinal drugs they trust
Most of the heroin and fentanyl coming into America comes from south of the border, mostly controlled by Mexican cartels. The Afghan crops feed Europe and Asia.
@@neilmarshall5087 No, he has a point. True heroin is becoming a rarer, and rarer commodity past couple years! In it's place Fentynal has begun taking the stage, being created in labs right across the border n such. now because it's being replaced by Fentanyl
wrong...they wanted american military presence in afghanistan indefinitely. They faced resistance from the ppl and ofcourse the pinnacle of that resistance being the Taliban. You lost to Islamic Jihad activity.
One of my favorite VICE series - continuing to push it against the moronic bureaucrat propagators of the most senseless war in history - truly a war against humanity itself. We are all victims.
You forgot puritan. Moronic, bureaucrat, puritan propagators of war. Why would heroin addicts need our help? They were given clear instructions to say no. Now it's on them. "Good people" don't do drugs, only the "bad people" do drugs. You don't help bad people, you fight bad people.
@@Gzuptvmedia good luck my man. even knowing that your hurting gives me anxiety. get some help if you need it. even something like suboxone can at least get you on a safer track if you're using IV. it doesnt solve the problem, but its allowed me to live a "normal" life. anyways im pulling for ya, good luck.
@Blinkycuff there is nothing inherently connecting conflict to drug deals no. But to have a country be connected to a 20 year international conflict that was in part financially backed by the illegal trade of opium does connect those two issues together. There's a correlation not a causation
@@capturedflame it's in the best interests of most nations to eliminate the illegality of the drug trade so it can be properly regulated and taxed and so criminal organizations lose that stream of revenue. You won't get rid of crime altogether but taxation and regulation could have a huge impact on areas hit so badly with drug trades like Latin America and stimulants and opium in the Middle East. There's no reason the world should still hold onto drug prohibition era laws just because Nixon strong manned the world in the late 60s early 70s. Drug policy will always be part of international relations as long as nation's agree to buy and sell product. It will be less violent and riddled with conflict once we legitimize the trade.
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its why i support libertarian drug ethics....the only reason drugs matter is bc of the leverage on the black market and crime informants. guns/drugs/human trafficking.....the only active GDP the cia cares for bc its the only liquidity in that "world". That can get them leverage or informants etc/intel theyre essentially a brokerage for those 3 things. Operation fast and furious is a prime example the deep state always shits the bed under a democratic president...just look at biden sending a former intelligence head to do the "negotiations" with the taliban....but coughs loud dont we not negotiate with terrorists. XD its almost as if the torture is a cover for cooperation.
Let me leave you with a thought: What if Afghanistan was given up on because synthetic opiates like Fentanyl are easier to produce, 100x stronger, 100x lighter, and don't require maintaining an entire country? Leave the "problematic and difficult to manufacture" stuff for the local market.
@@nacanacoo I never said I had all the answers, but I'm sure we are all in collaboration all over the world, hand in glove, behind closed doors, pervasive, throughout administrations.
My unit went to Afghanistan to teach the locals how to get bigger yields out of their food crops. I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to sustain their people from the “corn & wheat” they grow. 🇺🇸
The war on drugs may have seemed to make Afghanistan unwinnable. Leaving England and the rest of the world out of it, if America ended its war on drugs, Afghanistan wouldn’t have suddenly become winnable.
simple solution...release the pest or create one (cheaper than making a nuke for sure) that destroys poppy plants into afgan fields, taliban money source drys up, they fall...everybody happy
@@deepphilip6971 Except for the one legged guy with 12 kids. He wouldn't be happy. Neither would the family depending on him. He believes he's growing medicine...
@@CDXLIV444 sure but if this continues he and his coming generations might as well be living in a modern-day North Korea where he will have to sell his children for default on loan and you have to keep in mind global warming and geopolitics will surely lead to water scarcity and more unrest around the world, afgan will be worst affected and that will lead to more fanatic behavior to seep into society ...with this it will be over......in war there is always a hefty price to pay, the idea is to look which option is better over the other in terms of damage and effectiveness
The solution is actually incredibly simple. It's called legalization. If you treat people with addictions like humans instead of animals and provide them the help they need, you cut the legs out from under the cartels. But that would mean the powerful and the elite accepting they were wrong so it will never happen
Many thanks for producing and posting this, the best story I've seen yet which clearly explains the intersection of the opium and heroin trade, the so-called war on drugs, and the contorted history in Afghanistan. But like the cocaine cartels in S. America, I just don't see this ending anytime soon. Interesting, though, that fentanyl may be the undoing of the Afghan opium business.
@@alanmittlestead8490 what can we do to stop this? How can we get the people to realize that there is another way to be economic giants without relying on such brutal tactics.
The oxycontin boom in the 90s laid the tracks for a generation of junkies, people that normally would have just smoked pot, but trusted a pill, not knowing it was in many ways worse than heroin. Once the Sacklers/Purdue Pharma got pinched, all those customers were forced to switch to street heroin. Now you can't find real heroin unless you're rich &/or famous, people are dieing on the streets everywhere due to fentanyl (& other potentiators). We were far better off with natural heroin (diacetyl morphine), but the profit margins on fentanyl are over 100x that of real heroin, so "game over man"
My ex father-in-law was a U.S. Army Green Beret, & his reserve unit was deployed to Afghanistan in ~2002-2003. He lost all belief in the U.S. government on that tour- his unit spent their entire deployment, guarding poppy fields. He knew then, that whatever BS stories he had been told about the U.S. military's "heroic missions" to the Middle East, were really complete nonsense.
Doesn’t mention how current day large majority if any form of opioids being used in the US are coming from south and Central America .. not from Afghan origin …
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The government was socialist and the 'mericans undermined them paying for the Mujahadeen, the socialist government went to the USSR to invite them in. The Soviets didn't just invade. If you can't do the basic research then don't pretend you know a thing.
Eh sorta. Soviets had close relations with Afghanistan and provided aid and support to communist/socialist groups. Afghanistan overthrew their king and established a socialist republic government. The country was falling into civil war because of various reforms the government undertook. The Soviets feared that the Afghan government would seek closer relations with the US/West in order to cool tensions with Pakistan (which did not support the communist government) so they invaded, assassinated the general secretary of the government (who himself took power after disposing and executing the previous, more pro-Soviet general secretary) and installed a rival leader who was more pro-Soviet and more hardline communist. The Soviets never intended the war to stretch on for so long, it was initially just to prop up the local government until control was reestablished however massive amounts of weapons and support was provided to Mujaheddin from western and Islamic sources which stretched the war out. Much like US/NATO forces, the major cities of the country were relatively safe and under Soviet control, but it was impossible to eliminate Mujaheddin from the rural mountainous terrain.
I never understood how people couldn't see this literally we went in in 2002 opiate started to go on the major of swing in 2003-2004 if the correlation doesn't show that I don't know what other empirical evidence could
@@puprilla literally nearly the entirety of all heroin in the world originated from afghanistan. there is absolutely a connection to be made. history and politics don’t have one side
@@brucebehner4142 Big pharma is like any other corporation, they do their harvesting wherever labor is cheapest and then return to the states to launder their dirty money using shell companies.
@@sum1whonos2witnessesn13 As much as it seems like that's what happens. I promise it's not. I've personally been involved. We grow and harvest far more at less price using machinery than a country full of peasants. I promise.
@@brucebehner4142 Tell that to India where most of the world’s “generic”pharmaceuticals come from. I worked for one of the biggest corporations in the world for many years that still holds massive interests in big pharma for most of the last 150 years. Sounds like someone is still employed with them(big pharma); blocking, tackling, and running interference. Gatekeeper, grifter, or just a shill? I do appreciate that their was no repudiation of the laundering comment.
@@sum1whonos2witnessesn13 ok... lol, Im just a farmer. Your conspiracy theories are amusing but quite inaccurate. Nobody except the illegal drug trade wants hand harvested opium. That's just a fact.
well i mean it was by design...."oh youre liberated from soviets have open democratic elections to choose the path of your future" the afghanistan liberation movement wanted to win....didnt....was a militant muslim group...that wound up becoming al-queda... The direct political dissonant from those elections. We trained that group etc....so it was only logical for us to use military force to "legitimize" the govt that had won or was in power.....as if weve never put up a puppet regime before elsewhere....and it became a civil war or an aspect of loyalty.....i mean think about WWII era russia....some loyalists to the then axis aligned russia....then their political leadership goes nooooo were going to fight with the allies now against the axis....think of the internal strife of that country from a moral/ethical/political standpoint. A country that would be a larger scale example of afghanistan...which historically was just a warzone for various civilizations to have their wars so that they wouldnt have to ruin their own homelands.....over the last thousand years if not more. Natives being refugees form these countless wars. Among the true natives. As far as origin of its people or natives into the modern era/society. I mean this concept could apply to more countries than just afghanistan...and as if china isnt doing the same or russia from an economic standpoint.
@@ashantorahmanmirza8403 a lot of them dont even realize they had a strict doctrine that they would only need the poppy as a way of fueling their war against the soviets which was largely an idealism that was justified bc it was a holy war against evil. Once the soviets left the taliban no longer had a need for this revenue and thus put or at least tried to put an end to production/cultivation. Its unfortunate the lack of knowledge on this fact
@@shashlek5751 😂😂😂😂😂😂arw u stupid or something, their new flag is a white flag with black writing which says la ilha laliha something, which means mohommed is messager or something, basic Islamist flag that ISIS has. See Wikipedia, and dude would u really trust islamIST?
A whole generation was affected by the war. Its like throwing a country backward in development. Well played, now the Afghan is in the hands of war victims who have learned the way of violence. And about peace, a person who have only seen violence doesnt know the way of peace. I wonder who will save them. May God show mercy upon them.
The reason why america were really there. Heroin/opium/opioids. Remember the last big grower and supplier of heroin. VIETNAM. You can decide the rest for yourself
I love these pieces. Also man the USA really screwed up Afganistan from entry to exit and Australia joined too (despite terrorism not even effecting us.) Pointless war.
How many US soldiers became addicted to Heroin. Vietnam caused a significant number of US soldiers addicted to Heroin? In order to be released from duty and sent home they first needed to produce a clean urine. The Vietcong were addicted to Heroin as well. Someone I knew who was in combat there said he and his fellow soldiers would spray the VC with machine gun fire as they were running toward them in an attempt to over run his platoon. The VC were cut in half. The torso fell and their legs kept running before finally collapsing. They felt no pain.
Overdoses don't go from heroin being cut they go up when the heroin is more pure or new generation of people get on heroin. The only time overdoses go up from heroin being cut is when it's cut with fentanyl. They weren't cutting heroin in Iran with fentanyl then or now. Heroin and opium if is very cheap and plentiful in that part of the world no need to cut with fentanyl they can produce pure heroin cheaper than they can fentanyl.
Opium was legal in Europe till 1910. Opium pacified mostly females. It was their autoerotic drug of choice. All hell broke loose after that. I suggest we give them what they need and make a fairtrade coop with afghans poppy farmers.
Providing 90% of the world's heroin is just mind blowing. It's hard to even comprehend how much that is.
All heroin on the streets now is just literally fentanyl.
@@Rizzbulla pretty much... That shit's scary man!
@@that1guy899
Yeah for sure lol
This data is made up, nobody knows the reality.
This video is American propaganda to take eyes off the fact that USA invaded a lot of desert nations including Afghanistan for YEARS! And USA created the Taliban and is funding it from your taxes. Why do you think they left the military equipment there? th-cam.com/video/s9j1H330Nmo/w-d-xo.html
@@Rizzbulla True
America fights for GOD: gold, oil or drugs.
America fights for G_D AKA israel
*Guns, Oil, and Drugs. Three markets favoured by the US. However, their share of these markets is in decline, hence the speedy exit. 🤓
Sadly it doesn't need to be that way
@@Master_of_Critique least someone knows 🤷🏻♂️👌🏻
@@NoGood999 notice how my comment removed? Keep it up, TH-cam. Censorship worked so well for the Soviet Union and Weimar Germany…
Congrats to drugs for winning the war again
lol im Afghan and all the addicts are being forced into a room for 2 weeks or a month away from their family whether they like or not, if they resist they will whooped, Taliban are destroying the poppy fields
@@ZyroAniCapped they whip the addicts but if you think they'll continue to destroy the fields just look at their past and they'll soon be back to allowing opium cultivation whilst taxing it and the traffikers again as they need and want that 100's of millions of dollars to get rich. Bunch of hypocrites like most of the worlds leaders.
@@ZyroAniCapped Thank god the Taliban actually have morals! Just think, we could've completely bypassed the heroin epidemic if we had just never ousted them from power to begin with!
@@repletereplete8002 The Taliban follow Sharia. It is forbidden to make a living from haram commodities. The Taliban answer to Sharia law, not your caricatures of them. Have some respect, they whopped your military and even gave them humiliating deadlines to pack up their operations or else. And your military complied, ie "terms of surrender".
when has your country ever won a war? Makes me doubt the official WW2 narrative.
Also congratulate terrorism for winning tge war on terror
Much love to everyone struggling in here, its a daily battle and remember day 1 can always be today. Dont give up
Lmao, who knew that the failed work on terror would have links to the failed and made up war on drugs
Got that right. 👍
Fun fact: It's not illegal to grow opium poppies in the U.S. as long as they're for "ornamental" purposes. Just don't get caught scoring them or having any drug paraphernalia in your home or cops can make a case for "drug manufacturing".
Well guess im bout to grow poppies for ornamental purposes!
Every supermarket sells bread with poppy seeds. Pure poppy seeds are sold as spices and the price is a dollar per 25g.
The poppy seeds are harvested with special precautions to reduce the amount of opium.
@@Dogen70 🤣🤣
Lol I got kicked out of my sisters house cause she found me collecting opium in her gardens ahaha
My aunt makes awesome poppyseeds filled buns 👌
I dare say that those C17s shipped thousands of tonnes of heroin over the 20 year occupation
Totally. Same thing happened back during Vietnam.
Frankly, there was no other way for that much product to reach our shores.
@@YourMom-cu8yt when the USA wills it there's a way
@@TY-km8hj except when it comes to defeating insurgencies them the U.S is like a eunuch at an orgy.
FUTURE IS HIDDEN IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE. SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO DAILY WHAT THE UNSUCCESSFUL DO ONLY ON OCCASIONALLY.. WHICH IS INVESTING PERSISTENTLY A LITTLE TO GET MORE
WHOEVER THAT'S READING THIS , I PRAY THAT ONE DAY YOU WILL REACH YOUR DREAMS.
Cryptocurrency is a gamble. But everyone should be investing on.
Everyone knows cryptocurrency is not a gamble majorly for the extremely rich.. It's an invest'ment to compete with the rich and the government. Everyone can do it no restrictions
@@vincentbrittany1688 But anyone who is not investlng now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
Yes. It's better to take risk and make sacrifices than to remain poor or settle for less.
@Harold Megan link up with e x p e r t Jeffery Howard
The War on drugs” has always been a joke
This is all a scy opp .. they all crooks
100% solo. It's a tool the CIA uses to control big city's and the people in it, now they turned up the import and it's effecting every corner of the world.
Yessa all it did was have cops prey on poor neighborhoods. Just another government agenda passing laws that benefit them
Kabul was founded 1776 just like our co.....
Except in the philippines
First time someone provided a story about Afghanistan long history without blaming everything on religion
Catholic Church recruitment was for CIA operatives (Catholic Intelligence Agency)who defended the fields for war funds to conquer communism all over the world..
most of their issues currently are to blame for the fake war on terror
There was something like 93,000 overdose deaths in the United States during 2020. Vietnam we here in the United States lost something like 59.000. I mean wtf I don’t even have but 2 high school friends that are still alive because of it. I feel like I went to war without even leaving the soil of my town.
I’m 10 years clean this past February, ya ya ya i know good for me and thanks..
Cute comparing war to degeneracy classic American moment
One US marine officer replied during a patrol with a journalist with regards to the vast fields of poppies and why the ISAF wasn’t taking steps to curb or destroy the crops. Reason he gave was very logical and simple: Our task is to root out and engage the insurgents, not take away the livelihoods of poor farmers whose entire families depend on it. If we do take harsh measures, it is likely that the same farmer or his family members would join the insurgency or not inform us that there is an IED ahead on the next road we are driving into. Those are ground realities that soldiers have no control over with, with members of the western appointed government in Kabul having a hand in the trade themselves!
America is still better
Doesnt make sense when thousands of innocent people were murdered. Im sure they too wished for a better way of living. Dont fool yourself, america profited from it.
@@Student0Toucher america barely cares of its own people... how?
@@xtscarfacem8255 Thats ironic because why do immigrants from all over the world keep coming to this bad country called America!!!! Maybe we rank lower in some things compared to other FIRST WORLD countries in Europe but on the world stage we’re a pretty good country and for most of our history America has been pretty good except for minorities at first but now there getting all the power which I don’t care but it’s true
I know this guy will receive more likes because its a trend to hate America but real stats prove him otherwise👍
"How Heroin beat America in America."
How heroin beat America in Afghanistan
I enlisted, then 10 days later my brother died in my arms from an opiate overdose after coming to live with me straight from rehab. The Army put me in a “grieving period”, and during that time I learned about our soldiers defending the poppy fields that fuel the pharmaceutical industries opiate products that killed my brother, and I dissolved my enlistment. Now my nephews are enlisting because they feel like they have no opportunities, and I tried to warn them, but NeoAmerican propaganda is stronger than any argument I could levy, sadly. If only I had a multi billion dollar budget to create Hollywood movies and tv shows like the CIA does, I could probably change people’s minds. Also, don’t kid yourselves about illegal heroin. The Taliban isn’t row boating heroin to the cartels in South America. The CIA is shipping it to them directly on sanctioned cargo planes and cargo ships to feed their black budget operations. We are the bad guys, stop deluding yourselves.
That’s horrible
That's the truth. Started back in Vietnam with military planes bringing back Heroin.
Whole thing a cash cow for the CIA.
If the public knew the whole truth, the streets would look like WWZ
I wish u made a video on this and it goes viral
Don't forget the lithium...
The drugs are a great distraction.. with everything going electrical
Lithium will be on par with oil
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That guys leg is sturdier than my life
Lmfao that was good thanks.
Heroin got us in Vietnam also
Vietnam WAS the highest producer at time of that war HINT HINT Afghanistan became biggest producer in the 80s. Hint hint!
Harvard, Princeton and a ton of other institutions in America where built with 100% opium money. Look it up. Bush family. I'm not even joking, it's there look it up. No conspiracy. Our countrys founded on DOPE
I use too admire vice Journalism I guess you missed the part where us troops were tasked with guarding opium fields 🤔
I don’t think the implications of This Video are that US occupation of Afghanistan was good.
@@daikucoffee5316 yep, not sure if this guy watched the video
Kabul was founded 1776 just like our co.....
@@LowMedow cock?
Maybe if they didn't give guns cash or felt the need to be in everyone's business they won't have that issue would they?stop being a typical American anyone knows and sees that country was built on deceit and lies.get with it
LOOKS LIKE AMERICA LITERALLY GOT SMACKED!
I'll SEE MYSELF OUT.
🤣WHY !!!
Dear nameless reporter, please ask them to give us a name bc you are one of their best reporters and deserve credit. very eloquent and clear. thank you for all your narrations. your voice is soothing and vice is one of the current, news outlets worth listening to.
#thankyou
His name is Jamie Clifton...it literally says it on the screen at the beginning of all his videos
@@andyjohnson4008 oh thank you!
*million, she said million, not billion even though the subtitle said that. A billion people did not die in 40 years of fighting in Afghanistan. Roughly a million or more did.
that is very obvious…. nobody above the age of 14 is going to think 1/7th of the world population died in afghanistan..
@@TJayIS Unfortunately I think you’re overestimating the intelligence of the average American citizen; Especially in the TH-cam comment section lol.
@@Redx130000 word and that aint even to be a dick, American education is SEVERELY lacking
@@Redx130000 maybe you're right
kinda how its not basic education to really beat over the head of kids in america....that russia fought for and against the axis....and lost the most casualties in wwII....nor the fact that allied forces in europe only saw americans for around a years time....yet mericans like to think we fought nazis for 5-10 years....SMDH. The list goes on and its boarderless bc the providing class is also boarderless and responsible for this "information age" level of willful ignorance
The whole war for poppy and oil.
That's alot of money
Not oil, but definitely an unparalleled cache of rare earth minerals.
Well not oil, but other natural ores and gases that are abundant in the Islamic Emirates as it is called now.
America fixing their health care system would fix this.
@Ethan Stubbs in the uk rn, free healthcare is going sound :)
@TuPut AhMadre The story is people buy shady health care drugs in Mexico and other places because they can’t afford it in America, the drugs are laced with addictive drugs and thus creates these users become helplessly addicted. If the system was fixed people could buy medicinal drugs they trust
Isn't it interesting that in the "War on Drugs" the finger of guilt is generally is pointed at Mexico.
Pretty much whoever fits the agenda for what the government wants to push at that time..
Most of the heroin and fentanyl coming into America comes from south of the border, mostly controlled by Mexican cartels. The Afghan crops feed Europe and Asia.
@@HughCorbyCruick Try watching the video above....
@@neilmarshall5087 No, he has a point. True heroin is becoming a rarer, and rarer commodity past couple years! In it's place Fentynal has begun taking the stage, being created in labs right across the border n such. now because it's being replaced by Fentanyl
@@nacanacoo I thought most of the fentanyl was coming from China?
What happened is exactly what the Ruling Class wanted!
wrong...they wanted american military presence in afghanistan indefinitely. They faced resistance from the ppl and ofcourse the pinnacle of that resistance being the Taliban. You lost to Islamic Jihad activity.
@@BoqPrecision "you lost to Islamic Jihad activity" nah mate the US gov lost to jihad activity, we lost to the US Gov.
Exactly but we are surrounded by retards
@@BoqPrecision
The heroin is coming to America and it's purer than ever. The Ruling Class always win!
@@evanherrera5948 That's the Ruling Class's free school systems.
One of my favorite VICE series - continuing to push it against the moronic bureaucrat propagators of the most senseless war in history - truly a war against humanity itself. We are all victims.
You forgot puritan. Moronic, bureaucrat, puritan propagators of war. Why would heroin addicts need our help? They were given clear instructions to say no. Now it's on them. "Good people" don't do drugs, only the "bad people" do drugs. You don't help bad people, you fight bad people.
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"Brandon" is about to extradite Julian Assange...
Yeah my buddy did a tour in Afghanistan and he said there were many times where he was tasked with guarding poppy fields
Y’all educate me every day thank you
Congratulations to Drugs for winning the War on Drugs
The war on drugs is bullshit
dont do heroin. its awesome and you will probably love it and its all a struggle after that point. .thats my experience at least
ur not lying bro!! Im experiencing that right now!!
@@Gzuptvmedia good luck my man. even knowing that your hurting gives me anxiety. get some help if you need it. even something like suboxone can at least get you on a safer track if you're using IV. it doesnt solve the problem, but its allowed me to live a "normal" life. anyways im pulling for ya, good luck.
Why not mention that US military was the biggest distribution channel for heroin in the US
When drug policy is just major international relations conflicts
@Blinkycuff there is nothing inherently connecting conflict to drug deals no. But to have a country be connected to a 20 year international conflict that was in part financially backed by the illegal trade of opium does connect those two issues together. There's a correlation not a causation
@@capturedflame it's in the best interests of most nations to eliminate the illegality of the drug trade so it can be properly regulated and taxed and so criminal organizations lose that stream of revenue. You won't get rid of crime altogether but taxation and regulation could have a huge impact on areas hit so badly with drug trades like Latin America and stimulants and opium in the Middle East. There's no reason the world should still hold onto drug prohibition era laws just because Nixon strong manned the world in the late 60s early 70s. Drug policy will always be part of international relations as long as nation's agree to buy and sell product. It will be less violent and riddled with conflict once we legitimize the trade.
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I've been as busy as a one legged opium farmer
I'm using this out in the wild
US Soldiers: Put your hands up!!
Quagmire in Afghanistan: Giggity giggity goo!!!
I and my family and even my mother's recent passing are all undeniable evidence of heroin winning the war on drugs
I’d consider not doing heroin.
It’s in my family and a lot others to bro..
I'm sorry. It is here in mine as well.
@@Bdigital9482 let std’s be your “vietnam” (like djt?).
Skill issues
THE REAL REASON WE WERE THERE GUARDING THE POPPY FIELDS
And now we don't need them, because synthetic opiates are WAY easier to manufacture. No need to rule an entire country for it.
Another L in the war on drugs.
Pretty sure drugs have definitively won, at this point.
They were never losing
its why i support libertarian drug ethics....the only reason drugs matter is bc of the leverage on the black market and crime informants. guns/drugs/human trafficking.....the only active GDP the cia cares for bc its the only liquidity in that "world". That can get them leverage or informants etc/intel theyre essentially a brokerage for those 3 things. Operation fast and furious is a prime example the deep state always shits the bed under a democratic president...just look at biden sending a former intelligence head to do the "negotiations" with the taliban....but coughs loud dont we not negotiate with terrorists. XD its almost as if the torture is a cover for cooperation.
Congrats Drugs for winning the war on Drugs
>global superpower
>loses war to inanimate object
Let me leave you with a thought: What if Afghanistan was given up on because synthetic opiates like Fentanyl are easier to produce, 100x stronger, 100x lighter, and don't require maintaining an entire country?
Leave the "problematic and difficult to manufacture" stuff for the local market.
Then why are we letting China dominate the trade of it?
@@nacanacoo I never said I had all the answers, but I'm sure we are all in collaboration all over the world, hand in glove, behind closed doors, pervasive, throughout administrations.
Fentanyl has been around since the 1960s. Why go to Afghanistan in the first place then?
That’s like saying we can make nicotine synthetically, no more market for cigarettes. Bullshit, doesn’t work like that.
@@roughhouse5034 maybe they're getting better at diluting it
I love it when a British person points out the US failure with out sharing the info that the British Government failed too in destroying the poppy's.
Also found it funny how he called the Afghan government (ie US puppet) a "legitimate government"
Why would they destroy something that’s more valuable then gold?
@@hanzalaomar9915 savage
Britain's been in and out of Afghanistan since the 1840s or so.
it kind of puts into perspective how Mexico struggles so hard with the cartels: drugs basically fuel an indefinite, empire destroying insurgency.
My favorite Vice series. I’m living in America and if everyone watched these and listened we’d be saved.
there’s a 80% chance you’re younger than 20 and a 100% chance you’re younger than 30 o enlightened one
@@Azzazpimp haha so true
Lol, that guy trying to lure a sniper with his hat sticks up the whole gun aswell like nobody would see that too🤦🏽♂️
My unit went to Afghanistan to teach the locals how to get bigger yields out of their food crops. I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to sustain their people from the “corn & wheat” they grow. 🇺🇸
The war on drugs may have seemed to make Afghanistan unwinnable. Leaving England and the rest of the world out of it, if America ended its war on drugs, Afghanistan wouldn’t have suddenly become winnable.
It's almost like it's a complex problem that doesn't have a simple solution.
I enjoyed hearing the other side of the story. Very enlightening.
simple solution...release the pest or create one (cheaper than making a nuke for sure) that destroys poppy plants into afgan fields, taliban money source drys up, they fall...everybody happy
@@deepphilip6971 Except for the one legged guy with 12 kids. He wouldn't be happy. Neither would the family depending on him. He believes he's growing medicine...
@@CDXLIV444 sure but if this continues he and his coming generations might as well be living in a modern-day North Korea where he will have to sell his children for default on loan and you have to keep in mind global warming and geopolitics will surely lead to water scarcity and more unrest around the world, afgan will be worst affected and that will lead to more fanatic behavior to seep into society ...with this it will be over......in war there is always a hefty price to pay, the idea is to look which option is better over the other in terms of damage and effectiveness
The solution is actually incredibly simple. It's called legalization. If you treat people with addictions like humans instead of animals and provide them the help they need, you cut the legs out from under the cartels. But that would mean the powerful and the elite accepting they were wrong so it will never happen
Thx for a great video! I missed the outro with the congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs
It was always gonna go that way. I remember 15 years ago talking about it.
It's really easy to grow poppy plants. My dad did when he lived in Texas during the sixties.
can we get a playlist of the background audio? Some banger tunes
Need it ASAP @VICE
@Mike Wiki Yea, if you're handing them out.
The consumers who generate demands are blaming the suppliers. The audacity here!
Many thanks for producing and posting this, the best story I've seen yet which clearly explains the intersection of the opium and heroin trade, the so-called war on drugs, and the contorted history in Afghanistan. But like the cocaine cartels in S. America, I just don't see this ending anytime soon. Interesting, though, that fentanyl may be the undoing of the Afghan opium business.
You are a sucker my friend. The US facilitates this where ever they invade.
@@alanmittlestead8490 what can we do to stop this? How can we get the people to realize that there is another way to be economic giants without relying on such brutal tactics.
The oxycontin boom in the 90s laid the tracks for a generation of junkies, people that normally would have just smoked pot, but trusted a pill, not knowing it was in many ways worse than heroin. Once the Sacklers/Purdue Pharma got pinched, all those customers were forced to switch to street heroin. Now you can't find real heroin unless you're rich &/or famous, people are dieing on the streets everywhere due to fentanyl (& other potentiators). We were far better off with natural heroin (diacetyl morphine), but the profit margins on fentanyl are over 100x that of real heroin, so "game over man"
@@criss3619 Sure won't be easy but breaking up the oligarchy and the bought-off-two-party stranglehold is the only hope.
My ex father-in-law was a U.S. Army Green Beret, & his reserve unit was deployed to Afghanistan in ~2002-2003. He lost all belief in the U.S. government on that tour- his unit spent their entire deployment, guarding poppy fields. He knew then, that whatever BS stories he had been told about the U.S. military's "heroic missions" to the Middle East, were really complete nonsense.
When I heard that after Afghanistan was invaded by US heroin production went up by 2000%
It's so like I've been saying we went over there for heroin and oil
Doesn’t mention how current day large majority if any form of opioids being used in the US are coming from south and Central America .. not from Afghan origin …
The US guarded and maintained the opium trade, which the Taliban was AGAINST.
Vice recipe: find a social situation and find a way to make it about drugs
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That 1 legged Afghan with 13 children improvised, adapted, and over"came"
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As long as there is human existence there will be drugs.
@1:43 I'm assuming she said "1 million"? Closed captioning says "billion"
I think she said billion as well
I heard billion as well, but I guess she meant million.
Thank you for telling the truth
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Jervis bay NSW Australia
The government was socialist and the 'mericans undermined them paying for the Mujahadeen, the socialist government went to the USSR to invite them in. The Soviets didn't just invade. If you can't do the basic research then don't pretend you know a thing.
wrong. Afghanistan had a soviet puppet government. Soviets went in and actually killed the prez.
Eh sorta. Soviets had close relations with Afghanistan and provided aid and support to communist/socialist groups. Afghanistan overthrew their king and established a socialist republic government. The country was falling into civil war because of various reforms the government undertook. The Soviets feared that the Afghan government would seek closer relations with the US/West in order to cool tensions with Pakistan (which did not support the communist government) so they invaded, assassinated the general secretary of the government (who himself took power after disposing and executing the previous, more pro-Soviet general secretary) and installed a rival leader who was more pro-Soviet and more hardline communist. The Soviets never intended the war to stretch on for so long, it was initially just to prop up the local government until control was reestablished however massive amounts of weapons and support was provided to Mujaheddin from western and Islamic sources which stretched the war out. Much like US/NATO forces, the major cities of the country were relatively safe and under Soviet control, but it was impossible to eliminate Mujaheddin from the rural mountainous terrain.
Thanks, very informative and to the point.
The war was a front. So the government could maintain their poppy fields.
I never understood how people couldn't see this literally we went in in 2002 opiate started to go on the major of swing in 2003-2004 if the correlation doesn't show that I don't know what other empirical evidence could
we've known this since 2008 at least those of us in the drug scene
I thought transporting drugs was a federal offense? 🤔
Yea, but when it's the federal government doing it then it's kinda a big problem
It’s fun to watch vice pretend to know anything
Extremely hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
what does this mean lol they’re looking at the war in afghanistan through the lens of the war on drugs
do conservatives just hate analysis? fr what’s your deal
@@user-id9bn1ic9v yeah making connections where there isn't any
@@puprilla literally nearly the entirety of all heroin in the world originated from afghanistan. there is absolutely a connection to be made. history and politics don’t have one side
Only good series left on vice
13 kids and 1 leg? This dude is a legend!
Well... except for that whole daughter sold bit.
@@Lucky14970 desperate times call for desperate measures..
I wonder what large pharmaceutical conglomerate the fruits of those fields went to….Pfizer, Novartis, Merck?
None. Big pharma companies grow their poppies in the U.S. and England in revolving anonymous fields.
@@brucebehner4142 Big pharma is like any other corporation, they do their harvesting wherever labor is cheapest and then return to the states to launder their dirty money using shell companies.
@@sum1whonos2witnessesn13 As much as it seems like that's what happens. I promise it's not. I've personally been involved. We grow and harvest far more at less price using machinery than a country full of peasants. I promise.
@@brucebehner4142 Tell that to India where most of the world’s “generic”pharmaceuticals come from. I worked for one of the biggest corporations in the world for many years that still holds massive interests in big pharma for most of the last 150 years. Sounds like someone is still employed with them(big pharma); blocking, tackling, and running interference. Gatekeeper, grifter, or just a shill? I do appreciate that their was no repudiation of the laundering comment.
@@sum1whonos2witnessesn13 ok... lol, Im just a farmer. Your conspiracy theories are amusing but quite inaccurate. Nobody except the illegal drug trade wants hand harvested opium. That's just a fact.
Hooray!humanity is enlightened and ready for growth! I'm so
proud for us humans and our great achievments
Same outcome as the Contras!!
True, I could function on heroin. Had 2 jobs and all. Ended up on fentanyl and lost everything. 2 years clean now.
Aghanistan defeated itself when the population became too complacent with US military presence
US failed badly
well i mean it was by design...."oh youre liberated from soviets have open democratic elections to choose the path of your future" the afghanistan liberation movement wanted to win....didnt....was a militant muslim group...that wound up becoming al-queda... The direct political dissonant from those elections. We trained that group etc....so it was only logical for us to use military force to "legitimize" the govt that had won or was in power.....as if weve never put up a puppet regime before elsewhere....and it became a civil war or an aspect of loyalty.....i mean think about WWII era russia....some loyalists to the then axis aligned russia....then their political leadership goes nooooo were going to fight with the allies now against the axis....think of the internal strife of that country from a moral/ethical/political standpoint. A country that would be a larger scale example of afghanistan...which historically was just a warzone for various civilizations to have their wars so that they wouldnt have to ruin their own homelands.....over the last thousand years if not more. Natives being refugees form these countless wars. Among the true natives. As far as origin of its people or natives into the modern era/society. I mean this concept could apply to more countries than just afghanistan...and as if china isnt doing the same or russia from an economic standpoint.
@@anhiirr Democracy where you get to chooses between two Afghan americans?
Your thinking is poor. Almost 90% people support Taliban. But media never show this reality
@@ashantorahmanmirza8403 a lot of them dont even realize they had a strict doctrine that they would only need the poppy as a way of fueling their war against the soviets which was largely an idealism that was justified bc it was a holy war against evil. Once the soviets left the taliban no longer had a need for this revenue and thus put or at least tried to put an end to production/cultivation. Its unfortunate the lack of knowledge on this fact
And now they grow ephedra, the plant produces ephedrine which is the basic ingredient in making methamphetamine.
Because they moved the poppy fields to Mexico
I don’t understand, how can production go up in the middle of a war? It makes no sense
We’d like to congratulate heroin for winning the war in Afghanistan 🇦🇫
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That flag is no longer meaningful
@@stormstriker2000 Taliban said they'll retain flag
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Drugs are used to fund things? Maybe we should legalize and tax.
Does the United States know anything about selling their soul for a cash crop?
A whole generation was affected by the war. Its like throwing a country backward in development. Well played, now the Afghan is in the hands of war victims who have learned the way of violence. And about peace, a person who have only seen violence doesnt know the way of peace. I wonder who will save them. May God show mercy upon them.
I had a stroke trying to decipher what you’re saying
Somehow it got likes though 😂
@@datguy197 Ohhh i hope the stroke wasnyt that bad.
@@justice4549 It wasnt for likes, I just wrote what i felt lke.
You guys make such good videos
Afghanistan : we got a lot of opium..
US pharmaceutical companies : we'll take it !
The Reagans were so wrong. That Administration did so much damage it’s hard to calculate.
I think they should invite Australia 🇦🇺 military 🤣dangerous set of military men
That’s the truth!!!
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The way I see it drugs stopped blood shed. Afghans are finally in peace
One of Vice‘s best journalists!!
One legged guy with 13 kids ??? The guy gets busy.
11 minutes of a hipsters take on Afghanistan..useless
The reason why america were really there. Heroin/opium/opioids. Remember the last big grower and supplier of heroin. VIETNAM. You can decide the rest for yourself
I love these pieces.
Also man the USA really screwed up Afganistan from entry to exit and Australia joined too (despite terrorism not even effecting us.) Pointless war.
Australia has been affected, several times.
How many US soldiers became addicted to Heroin. Vietnam caused a significant number of US soldiers addicted to Heroin? In order to be released from duty and sent home they first needed to produce a clean urine. The Vietcong were addicted to Heroin as well. Someone I knew who was in combat there said he and his fellow soldiers would spray the VC with machine gun fire as they were running toward them in an attempt to over run his platoon. The VC were cut in half. The torso fell and their legs kept running before finally collapsing. They felt no pain.
Overdoses don't go from heroin being cut they go up when the heroin is more pure or new generation of people get on heroin. The only time overdoses go up from heroin being cut is when it's cut with fentanyl. They weren't cutting heroin in Iran with fentanyl then or now. Heroin and opium if is very cheap and plentiful in that part of the world no need to cut with fentanyl they can produce pure heroin cheaper than they can fentanyl.
Actually cutting drugs does cause overdoses because it makes purity inconsistent so users aren’t sure what exactly they are taking.
@@michaellondonxxx4860 do u do drugs because cutting them makes them less pure which leads to less overdoses
Opium was legal in Europe till 1910. Opium pacified mostly females. It was their autoerotic drug of choice. All hell broke loose after that. I suggest we give them what they need and make a fairtrade coop with afghans poppy farmers.
Too many commercials and long ones on this video.