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In 2021, the world watched as the US military retreated chaotically from Afghanistan after 20-years of war.
But in Afghanistan, America was defeated as much by the illegal heroin trade as by the Taliban itself. This is how heroin has fundamentally reshaped Afghanistan as a country for decades - and how you can’t understand the West’s failure there without it.
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