The War on Drugs

How Heroin Defeated America in Afghanistan (2021x16)

Ausstrahlung: Okt 30, 2021

In 2021, the world watched as the US military retreated chaotically from Afghanistan after 20-years of war. But in Afghanistan, America was defeated as much by the illegal heroin trade as by the Taliban itself. This is how heroin has fundamentally reshaped Afghanistan as a country for decades – and how you can’t understand the West’s failure there without it.