Russian troops in Afghanistan?

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This is starting to sound like one of my less than believable ideas for a campaign.

Russia has one of the world's worst heroin problems, coupled to a declining demographic and their own problems with Islamic militants in the eastern republics.

They're trying to get NATO to be more aggressive against opium production. Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's heroin, and Russians (2% of the Russian population) soak up 70% of the Afghan crop.

Oddly enough, it might not be too far in the future where the majority of troops in Afghanistan are US, UK and Russian.