Name: Afghanistan and US Intervention Policies
Uploaded: 2021-08-18T17:08:57.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Afghanistan and US Intervention Policies' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Afghanistan and US Intervention Policies' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-18. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan that's a
creepy one looks weird I see the people falling from the plane I did that's
wild
it's it's weird rushing the plane trying to get on board and trying to get
rescued and taken out of the country fuck it's so odd you know I was having a
conversation with um with friends just just yesterday and I was saying I
literally had forgotten like I was like why why was the US in Afghanistan again
it had been so long I was literally trying to remember what the initial
reason for going in there was yeah but I mean I'm no foreign policy expert I'm
not
going to pretend to be but it seems very obvious that the way they withdrew was
crazy and leaving all the leaving all the weapons and ammunition and vehicles
and
stuff like that for the Taliban to just come and scoop up if one was a legit
conspiracy theorist like a real tinfoil hatter you would look at this and go
this is probably the best way to ensure the support of a reinvasion like leave
a
bunch of weapons behind make the whole thing disastrous have the Taliban take
over
the entire country in a short period of time start executing women mayors do
all
the crazy shit they're probably gonna do and then you know have some real
public outcry so
weird people are can I still get people who are confused as to why I do not
generally trust
the government and I don't know how many examples I need to pull out from
recent times and from
further history to just be like look whether whether this is malice or it's
incompetence or
um it's with some things it doesn't matter all right whether it's malice or
incompetence
incompetence incompetence in anything but but how can with certain things I'm
like how how can it be
like it's so obvious right it's so obvious what is going to happen in a certain
situation and then you
do it anyway and I don't I don't understand that one person can be incompetent
but it's like it's not
just one person who makes all these ideas they've got actual people who are
supposed to be experts and
advisors etc I mean you even had people in the media last last month and the
media is pretty friendly
towards Joe Biden here for the most part and people in the media are saying hey
if you do this aren't
the Taliban gonna just take over everything he's like no and he's like no no
there's a 300,000
Afghanistan armed soldiers only 75,000 Taliban meanwhile they took it over and
they just did it yeah
yeah I mean there's no gunshots fired it's no yeah I I just I just think the
whole thing's a disaster the
whole this nation building idea is a disaster and Afghanistan itself has never
been a traditional
country in the sense of like a central leadership it's like it's basically for
most of history has
been run by a warlords it's like warlords that controlled regions here's a
question Joe
this is something I wonder about a lot both on an individual level and on an on
a nation level how much and at what
point should say a country get involved with the affairs of another one where
it's a good question
well it's it should be probably at a we should have levels of atrocity that are
intolerable
right where it's like Nazi Germany type levels but if that's the case why are
we not invading North Korea
because North Korea talk to Wynomi Park or any of the people that have escaped
from from North Korea it's
essentially a form of Holocaust there's people that are in concentration camps
they've lived their whole
lives there their children will be born there there's people that are starving
to death there's people that
are cannibalizing people it's a weird fucked up horrific situation over there
yeah and uh there's no
there's no plan to do anything about it yeah but yet we keep talking about
doing things in the Middle East
and there's a lot of resources in the Middle East that may or may not be a
motive to being there
one of them is drugs it's uh up until the invasion of Afghanistan I mean I'm
not sure what the number is
now but Afghanistan once we invaded I think they were the supplier of 94
percent of the world's opium
oh I didn't know that oh yeah I didn't know that well the fucking United States
troops were guarding
poppy fields because these people that were there that was their main way of
making a living and the
United United States troops were guarding the poppy fields it's fucking crazy
let's let's find out what
the actual number is as of today but I believe that I think that was the number
at one point in time
that 94 percent of the world's opium supply was from Afghanistan specifically
wow there's also a massive
supply of uh minerals of conflict minerals ironically in 2014 the estimated opium
production was 6 400
what is an mt uh yet in 2017 production climbed to a new record of 9 000 mt
buh buh buh buh buh result of a drought these levels of production are enough
to supply
most of the world's opium markets wow it's a study from the brookings brookings.edu
oh metric tons that's what it is okay there you go okay 2007 afghan opium
production climbed to what
was then seen as a staggering 8 200 metric tons uh interesting in 2018 climbed
to a new record of uh 9 000
metric tons and falling to in 2018 6 400 metric tons massive amounts of opium
wow yeah this is what's
crazy um the the uh trafficking okay oh here it is estimated the gross value of
the afghan opium economy
including the cultivation of poppy processing into heroin and trafficking up to
afghan borders to be between
u.s 4.1 billion and 6.6 billion in 2017. wow it's so funny seeing those numbers
there compared to like
these trillions and trillions that they just keep printing sounds like nothing
i don't even know how
these numbers are just get to a stage where you can't fathom what does that
mean it's just like
too many zeros yeah it's it's also like where's that money going like if that's
if they're making
that much money selling heroin where's it going who's getting it who's selling
it i don't know where's
it going how's it getting out of the country are you guys watching it watch the
fields yeah keep an
eye on it i have no idea man the world is such a weird place and always has
been i did listen to the
that podcast you did with um young me park which was amazing amazing by the way
um yeah and wild north
korea is it blows my mind that here in 2021 with everything you know we're
doing and whatever that
there's just one country out there that we know like almost nothing about it's
just blacked out
totally disconnected from the world virtually everyone no one's met anyone from
there virtually no one's
been there yeah even if you've been there you can only go on like a guided tour
to like one small part
of it it it amazes me that that's a thing i always just think like how is that
possible given how
interconnected we all are and she was saying that if it wasn't for china
support they wouldn't be able
to survive a week yeah they would be like china they need china support and
that's the reason china
props them up it's so weird how do you think that um how do you think that that
will come to an end
it might not it might go on for hundreds of years i think it will i think evil
always evil always falls
eventually it does eventually but what is eventually if a human lifetime is you
know if 100 years if
you're lucky there's been many evil regimes that have lasted longer than that
so i mean many many many
generations of people are going to suffer yeah it's so odd i don't know the
world they can't do anything
about it the thing is like they're starving they have no access to weapons the
government has full complete
control over them and when you pass the borders they have landmines set up so
if you're you're
making a run for it you're gonna blow up and what's do you know what what's
china's interest with
keeping or allowing it to stay that way is there some benefits in them that's a
good question
because i know that i know that they're propped up by china but what why would
china want
you know why why would they want it to stay like that i don't really understand
that
well they probably enjoy the fact that there's a conflict between north and
south korea as they're
both close to each other and south korea's allies with the united states you
know china has their
fucking tentacles and so many different things man it's wild i got some more
numbers here for you
yeah help with the afghan thing this is from wiki but they're from like from
the afghan papers i think
is where a lot of this information came from as of 2017 opium production
provides about 400 000 jobs in
afghanistan more than the afghan national security forces the opium trade spiked
in 2006 after the
taliban lost control of the local warlords 93 93 percent of the non-pharmaceutical
grade opiates
of the world market originated in afghanistan more land is used in afghanistan
to grow
for opium than cocoa cultivation in all of latin america wow i did not know
this i i never linked
afghanistan with huge amounts of yeah man it's in a sturgill simpson's song
that's i mean we are we're repeating what happened in the vietnam war right in
the vietnam war that
was a big part of what the vietnam war was all about was the heroin trade that's
what's going on here man
yeah it's like it's it's got to be a factor this idea that it's not a factor of
why we're there and
that some fucking scumbag is not profiting off of this for sure it is there's
no way they're not
i mean if these are the same people that paid barry seals to run coke over from
south america and drop it
into mina arkansas you don't think that they would be making money over in afghanistan
no i i do man i
believe that every every government is corrupt they're gonna make a documentary
about the the poppies
they're gonna have to that someone now that we're out of afghanistan someone's
gonna make a documentary
about the heroin trade and people are gonna blow their wig off they're gonna be
like what
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