🚨🚨USAID FLOODED AFGHANISTAN WITH TAXPAYER MONEY THAT FUELED OPIUM TRADE Donald Trump has frozen spending via the notorious USAID, accusing it of “waste and abuse” of taxpayers’ funds. One recipient of such cash infusions was Afghanistan Thread🧵👇(1/6):::Image:::(2/6) WHAT WAS USAID DOING THERE? It launched its first program in Afghanistan in 2001; by FY2002, its budget was $30 million. In 2006 it started distribution of vouchers for seed, fertilizer, tools, skills, and technology:::Image:::(3/6) WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:Between 2005 and 2008, USAID sank at least $330 million in funding failed alternative development projects (ADP), according to a 2016 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report:::Image:::(4/6) USAID funds served to boost poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, SIGAR’s John Sopko revealed; Its Kandahar Food Zone program’s efforts to rehabilitate canals increased the fertility of at least 113,808 hectares of land, satellite :::Image:::ry showed:::Image:::(5/6) Opium poppy cultivation spread to 328,000 hectares in 2017, which is 60% more than the year before:::Image:::(6/6) Historic production of opium and its heroin derivative reached a record output value of up to $6.6 billion, providing the Taliban* with an estimated 60% of its funding ($200 million) *under UN sanctions for terrorist activities:::Image:::
