Re: Why they prefer poppy fields over vineyards?
What’s sad is this:
We can take a 10th (yes 10%) of the money being spent on the war and just give it to the people of Afghanistan and tribal Pakistan areas an that would probably be more than what these nuts make from poppy or guns.
Take another 10% and give it to the Indian and Pakistan politicians as a performance bonus for solving the Kashmir dispute and watch how fast that gets done.
10% each then to Iran and N.Korea should further better the peace clock.
With the rest, just finance some energy, vaccine and food research.