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The US is a very rich country that is very close by, of course the drugs flow there. To single out the US is like blaming trees for forest fires. They're part o
by nwienert 3y ago
The US is a very rich country that is very close by, of course the drugs flow there. To single out the US is like blaming trees for forest fires. They're part of the the problem, but it makes it seem like you just want an easy thing to point a finger at, whereas the grim reality is that it's complex and theres a ton of players and plans that'd need to go into motion to ever improve things.
- ahzhou 3y agoI agree it's complex. I'm not blaming the US. Like most problems in the world, it's a result of circumstance, not because there's a bad guy. It's not like there's a magical solution to market forces applying to drugs. My point is more that the geopolitical reasons for the cartel's existence means that Mexico has much less agency in solving it than they would like.
- jonahbenton 3y ago[flagged]
- hombre_fatal 3y agoThis just seems like polishing your hobby horse rather than responding to anything stated upstream in the convo. So, Americans wanting drugs and Mexico being able to provide them is related to or caused by an inherent predatory trait that Americans have that's first demonstrated by pioneers a few hundred years ago? Or was it just an "America bad" interjection?
- flangola7 3y ago[flagged]
- blovescoffee 3y agoThat comment is deleted so I don’t know what they said but to be fair the US absolutely did harm the stable progression/evolution of the Mexican state many times. It has also helped. Just keep that in mind.
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- joe_the_user 3y agoThe US isn't just some incidental drug market with the illegality of drugs being a fact of nature. US policy began the "war on drugs" and US policy forces other nations to continue it. Drug war policies further have accelerated US consumption and the violence of the cartels ("gun walking" etc, etc).