LF: Lavrov Calls Out NATO's Role in Afghan Drug Trafficking

Title: Lavrov Calls Out NATO's Role in Afghan Drug Trafficking
Source: Russia Insider
URL Source: http://russia-insider.com/en/lavrov ... rance-drug-trafficking/ri19345
Published: Mar 27, 2017
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Post Date: 2017-03-29 05:54:46 by Deckard
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Russia's Foreign Minister says that NATO tolerates drug trafficking in Afghanistan — which continues to fund extremism in the region

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov always finds the most diplomatic ways to point out Washington's innumerable international crimes.

During a discussion with Russian military officers last week in Moscow, Lavrov pointed to Afghanistan as an example of Washington's longstanding policy of "managed chaos" in the Middle East. In the process, he also blew the whistle on NATO's extremely high tolerance for drug trafficking:

The US operation against the Taliban and al-Qaeda was supported by all countries. It’s another matter that after receiving the international approval, the United States and its NATO allies, which took over in Afghanistan, started acting rather inconsistently, to put it mildly.
During their operation in Afghanistan, the terrorist threat has not been rooted out, while the drug threat has increased many times over. The drug industry prospered. There is factual evidence that some of the NATO contingents in Afghanistan turned a blind eye to the illegal drug trafficking, even if they were not directly involved in these criminal schemes.
Afghanistan is a separate case, although the current developments there, which are a result of the NATO operation’s failure, despite the carte blanche the bloc received from the international community, can be considered an unintended cause of managed chaos. In Iraq, Syria and Libya, this chaos was created intentionally.

Lavrov is being too gentle.

As Wired magazine reported back in 2013, current U.S. policy in Afghanistan is to allow poppy fields to grow — and prevent Afghan forces from destroying them. You can't make this stuff up:

[U.S. soldiers are] not allowed to actually step foot in [the Afghan farmer's] many acres of poppy fields or damage the fields in any way.

They can’t even threaten to destroy the fields or send in Afghan troops to burn, plow under or poison the delicate, pastel-colored flowers.

Watch Lavrov "diplomatically" blow the whistle on this insane racket:

The Taliban was dead-set against any poppy growing and would kill farmers for trying to grow it.

We invaded and the poppy farmers went back to growing it once the Taliban was out of power.

And we continue to protect the opium and heroin trade. We even built an incredibly nice bridge across some incredibly rough terrain which saves the opium couriers days of travel time in the mountains so they can deliver more easily.

Then the Afghan poppy crop gets smuggled mostly to Kosovo, our own little narco-terrorist state in Europe, to be refined into various opioids and distributed.

All this has been known in some detail for a decade or more. The CIA has controlled the opium trade for over 50 years, apparently taking over the enterprise from the British who ran it before that, dating back to their Opium Wars in China in the 19th century.

Seems to me that if the United States was serious about "winning" the war on drugs, they wouldn't be in the business of protecting poppy farmers.

Of course drug importation has always been a way for the CIA and others to finance various "black projects".

It's where they get the bags of cash to buy off leaders and the military in various countries around the world.

And the CIA's narcotics operations are all off-budget and kept classified. Handy, eh?

Of course, this is only a "secret" here in America. Around the world, everyone knows what we do and laugh when we lecture them about the rule of law and Just Say No.

Russia's Foreign Minister says that NATO tolerates drug trafficking in Afghanistan — which continues to fund extremism in the region

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