NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoAfghan opium poppy cultivation plunges by 95 percent under Taliban: UNwww.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down16
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minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down6·2 years agoThey were perfectly fine with it over the past couple decades when it was helping keep them funded.
minus-squareZastyion345@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years 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-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoSimilar to how they did the same when we paid them to back in the late 90s.
minus-squareregul@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·2 years agoThey’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.
They were perfectly fine with it over the past couple decades when it was helping keep them funded.
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.
They’re the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.