USA failed to stop the drug trade (opium poppy crops) in that country, Taliban comes in a nuke that trade in 1 year, puts in question if the Americans were in fact running the drug trade themselves under their rule.
That’s mad. The US would never promote illegal drug trade.
Whitey Bulger: protected by the FBI for decades while being the biggest heroin importer in the northeast
Freeway Ricky Ross: supplied by the CIA with coke from the Contras, in a relationship mediated by a DEA informant
Golden Triangle heroin trade: controlled by the CIA for decades after the Korean War, arming and protecting manufacturers and traffickers, with heroin flown on CIA planes
The French Connection: French gangsters were protected by the CIA and allowed to import heroin to their primary market, the US, in exchange for keeping the port of Marseille out of the control of French communists
La Corporacion: the biggest Bolivian cocaine cartel, the “GM of cocaine”, started with the cooperation and protection of the CIA according to a DEA agent whose investigations into them were repeatedly thwarted by the State Dept and CIA
wow, just wow!
Saved this in my notebook thank you
failed
implies they tried lol
Touche lol
tried
implies they weren’t deliberately making a killing off of it
They were naturally. Opium is historically a tool of colonial oppressers. Asian opium dens were only a thing after the British Empire brought it to their communities. Gary Web famously shot himself in the head twice after exposing the CIA as the one offloading crack into the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area kick-starting the crack epidemic. Drugs like crack, opium, and other highly addictive drugs help maintain control and division among the exploited population. Pain killers and fentanyl are the new Crack Cocaine of our time. Even if they were not making a direct profit off the opium trade at the time, it did them no good to stop it. It only supported their efforts of looting and plundering.
Puts in question? I’d argue it’s 100% obvious. The opioid epidemic lines up pretty well with the invasion of Afghanistan.
wasn’t useless for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin
$$$billions in profits, I bet shareholders attend their, temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques, to thank their fucking God’s for having blessed them with wealth.
don’t forget Halliburton!
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Don’t forget the tens of thousands of dead civilians.
Well the war machine did a bang up job at preventing Ghadaffi from implementing gold backed currency to keep our scam money system going.
and instituting slave markets. don’t forget the slave markets.
Not useless at all. In fact they did exactly what they set out to do. They produced a fuckin ton of shareholder value for industries that profit off war!
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More like 30 if you count US support for the “Moderate” Mudjahadeen that took the L in the mid 1990s.
You should see Russian law majors faces when Taliban envoys went to Kremlin and got their diplomats approved by MFA, even though the supreme court has ruled that Taliban is a terrorist organization and any of it’s members should be arrested on sight and put in jail for 10+ years just for being a part of it. And now we get people who, under one law, are terrorists and have diplomatic immunity at the same time…