Comment on War
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 day agoAre you counting the American vets that comitted suicide in response to the “War on Terror” and the people who dies in America from an opiod overdose after its export magically shot up out of Afghanistan after the US invaded?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No. Because that’s third and fourth order effects of generically bad US public policies. The opioid overdoses, in particular, were driven by the legal prescriptions of Oxycotin giving way to a wave of criminalization and cutbacks on a newly created population of addicts, for instance. American vets committing suicide are a problem in peacetime and wartime alike, largely driven by the abysmal treatment of enlisted men.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 day ago
Didn’t opiod production in Afghanistan shoot up like 700% when America invaded? Not sure how that wouldn’t be tied to the opiod overdose deaths in America. And I’ve never been alive during peace time in Erica, or rather from America, so I can’t compare, as I’ve only heard of a dozen+/day vets dying from suicide in America after the early 2000s Iraq/Afghanistan wars.