A Tucker Carlson interview pushes the claim that the US deliberately allowed heroin production to explode in Afghanistan after 2001 to weaken Iran and Russia — a damning reframing of the Afghanistan war.

• In the last year of Taliban rule (2000), Afghanistan grew zero heroin poppy and exported food to Iran and Pakistan.
• After the US-led invasion, Afghanistan became the world's main heroin source again.
• The claim being made: this was intentional — to flood Iran and Russia with cheap heroin and damage them.
• Tucker calls the alleged policy deeply immoral and questions whether anyone in government planning meetings ever objected.

Outlook: Expect this narrative to keep building on the populist right as a moral indictment of the post-9/11 foreign policy establishment.