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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
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The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim
"The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan's GDP, the UNODC reported."
"Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually"
So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year