Russia declares war on the Afghan drug business

[Eugen]

Since January 1 of this year, Russia, having become the leader of the G8, has immediately declared the fight against drug production and drug trafficking its top priority. Thus, Vladimir Putin outlined the contours of Russian foreign policy and recognized that drug use is the main problem of the Russian nation. And indeed: now that the fight against alcoholism and measures aimed at improving the demographic situation have brought their first fruits a decade later, it is time to give an adequate answer to another destructive challenge - drug use.

It is significant that in 2014 the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan will take place. At the same time, during the occupation, the volume of cultivation of opium poppy has increased significantly: for example, according to the UN, over the past five years, sown areas have increased from 193 to 209 thousand hectares. In such circumstances, attracting the G8 to solve the opium problem is not just a service from the West. Russia actually "pokes its nose" at the countries responsible for the increase in drug trafficking: after all, Afghanistan has been under their control for the last 13 years, and they should be responsible for the consequences of the occupation.

Money doesn't smell

Drug use is dangerous not only because of the degradation of the nation. Giant financial flows from Russia and Europe rush to Central Asia, into the hands of militants and drug dealers. Part of this money is deposited in the hands of intermediaries - the mafia, which ensures the safe transportation of opium. Thus, the fight against drug trafficking is a battle for the health of the people, a fight against Islamist terror and ordinary organized crime, which does not have religious or national affiliation.

Billions of dollars in the sale of heroin are spent on the purchase of weapons and the search for mercenaries. It is difficult to say where the Afghan “financial sledgehammer” will be turned after the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. Excess money and excessive ambitions of extremist opposition can cause some kind of military or political adventure.

It is possible that the billions received in Russia through the sale of drugs will return to us - but this time in the form of sponsorship to some kind of “ideologically correct” underground like the Islamists in Dagestan or Tatarstan. However, it depends entirely on the owners of the plantations.

Today, international forces in Afghanistan are fighting the Taliban, but are completely “forgetting” (intentionally?) The producers and sellers of opium. Interestingly, most plantations are located in areas where NATO patrols appear most often. The area under crops under the occupation authorities has grown 26 times! But with the Taliban, the opposite happened: the area of opium poppy plantations decreased by 8 times. It turns out that heroin production exceeded the level of the nineties.

If the United States and its allies really wanted to defeat the Taliban, they would surely have delivered the main blow precisely to the opium plantations. Then it would have been possible to destroy the main source of financing partisans, which should have led to a decrease in the level of resistance. But judging by the fact that drug trafficking is flourishing in Afghanistan, defeating the Taliban is not NATO’s priority goal. The bloc pursues some unspoken goals, practically unrelated to "democratization" and the "fight against terrorism"

The increase in drug production coincides surprisingly with the increase in the number of occupying forces. While there were few foreigners, there was practically no land sown with opium poppy; but now, especially after several years past, when NATO troops arrived in the country in tens of thousands, heroin production has become the backbone of the Afghan economy. However, most of the drugs are exported.

“Developed”


The plan proposed by experts is called “Developed” and contains several specific recommendations aimed at the destruction of the Afghan drug business

• First point - Declare the trade in Afghan heroin a global threat. This will help many states to rally efforts and coordinate their actions.

• Second point - the actual elimination of opium crops.

• Third point of the plan is to conduct cadastral registration of the lands of Afghanistan for better control over the use of farmland, and the owners of poppy plantations should be included in the UN sanctions list.

• Fourth point - oblige NATO troops to destroy opium crops.

• Fifth point - cooperation of Russian, Afghan, American and other intelligence services. As planned, intelligence agencies are obliged to provide each other with operational information on the location of drug laboratories and poppy plantations (compete in obtaining information and its implementation), as well as on persons involved in the drug business.

• Sixth point - training of drug police by Russian and Western instructors.

• Seventh paragraph - taking into account national traditions and the development of agriculture, cattle breeding.

• Eighth paragraph - Development of Afghanistan's infrastructure, especially the electrification of the country. Thanks to such actions, at least two million jobs should be created.

The Development Plan could be the basis for the formation of a large-format international anti-drug coalition, but in the West it was sabotaged. The fight against drug trafficking is not part of the US plans; Washington's task at the current stage is to legitimize its military bases in Afghanistan. The States are not interested in supporting Russian plans, because Afghan heroin does not enter the American market!

Source: https://rezzonans.com

 

[Eugen]

Colleagues, as you think, are cattle breeding or animal husbandry.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thanks Eugene for an interesting article.

 

[Роберт]

Optimistic and naive.