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> If the demand for drug fighting just lost 90% of it's target, why do we need so many drug fighters? In terms of a real war, if an army just decimated 90% of i
by binarray2000 9y ago
> If the demand for drug fighting just lost 90% of it's target, why do we need so many drug fighters? In terms of a real war, if an army just decimated 90% of it's enemy, it's time to send some troops back home.
Well, those people wouldn't be jobless as there are (serious) drugs to fight: Heroin and cocaine. But, that would be against the imperial interests of the USA, one powerful agency in particular. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...
[3] https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-became-a-conspiracy-fact-the-cia-afghanistans-poppy-fields-and-americas-growing-heroin-epidemic/5533673 https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-becam...
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838 https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Tra...
[5] https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockburn/dp/1859842585 https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockbu...
- beambot 9y agoWhat about the domestic opioid epidemic...? Or is big pharma an unacceptable target for the WoD?
- Clubber 9y agoGiven their track record, do you think the government would help or harm the opioid epidemic? If history serves, they will make it worse. They already have. Their crackdown on pills has made the heroin epidemic skyrocket. Heroin is not the best of two evils.