https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/18/taliban-ban-smartphones-officials-shown-destroying-devices

The Guardian offers a number of potential reasons.

Sorry, I don’t want to copy paste so you’ll have to read it yourself :)

Since restocking their shelves with US liquor last week, Nova Scotia stores saw higher than usual sales, said Terah McKinnon, spokesperson for the province’s liquor board.

Seems like selling american booze is in the interest of at least some people.

Celebrating other people’s death is always a bit awful but these chinese sailors are violating the sovereignity of another country for their own nations imperial ambitions. They’re just as bad as ruzzians.