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179. Drugs Trade in The Taliban's Afghanistan

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Popular Front is a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me, Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to two journalists who've just got back from a trip to Afghanistan where they were reporting on the drugs trafficking situation in the country now that the war was lost. The Taliban said that they're going to put a stop to this stuff but actually in some ways it's only gotten worse. People are making up more money and if they stop with this drug dealing then some people are actually going to starve due to various blockades.

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