Alfred W. McCoy — How a pink flower defeated the world's sole superpower

It wasn't just the militants but also and the opium poppy and heroin trade. Fascinating story well told.

Not mentioned is that the drug trade is also undoing the US in Latin America.

The toll this has taken already and is still taking is astonishing.

Le monde diplomatique
How a pink flower defeated the world's sole superpower

Alfred W. McCoy | J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison