The people who are looking to traumatize and scare you, to keep you compliant and complacent, will never tell you what ended up happening to the COVID resisters. So, allow me to do exactly that.

After Uncle Sam’s ignominious retreat from the graveyard of empires in 2021, the Taliban infamously regained control of the country and set about reinstituting their campaign to ban the cultivation of opium poppies. And, once again, the results of that ban have been nothing short of remarkable. So, are we likely to see history repeating with this next iteration of the Afghan poppy story? Let’s find out.