And the CIA had a hand in the Opium trade in Afghanistan while we were there.
The US is comically evil abroad, and getting worse domestically every day.
US is comically evil everywhere the light touches
That is incorrect, they are just comically evil when it comes to protecting/creating business opportunities and preserving their power/influence, which is just 99.9%
Eh, who am I kidding, the US government is so tightly intertwined with business that their diplomats might as well be marketing officials for private industry.
Fascism is imperialism turned inward. The US fears losing its grip on power so it’s begun to cannibalize itself in a desperate bid to restore its dominance.
Nobody pushes drugs.
Americans gobble up drugs like Hungry Hippos and the cartels are just violent psychopaths that want to be the distributors.
Lmao, you do realize that drugs are a global thing, right?
They are.
If you look up who consumes the most drugs I think you’ll find some really fun facts. Not only do more people in the US consume drugs but the quantity is also noticeably higher than anyone else.
The pusher theory is bs. Nobody is out there handing out free drugs to get people hooked.
well…not free, but big pharma has been caught many times bribing doctors to over-perscribe addictive medications to their patients
Big pharma is the pusher that cartels are accused of being.
If the US was just neighbors with Canada I guarantee you illegal drugs would be much harder to come by in the US. Most other developed nations have the luxury of being neighbors only with other developed nations (or being islands)
You sure about that?
Besides the problematic developed vs undeveloped labelling, most rich countries exploit cheap labor and production I. The closest or most convenient “poorer” nation.
Europe has used the Balkans and eastern countries that was since the iron curtain came down (and before that really). Russia too.
France and England used Africa similarly. (Edit: and most of the rest of western Europe actually).
The US and China both got rich doing it internally, but then moved on to cheaper labor or new resources when domestic sources were used up.
I didn’t realize how large the Balkan drug trade was, thank you for that information. It seems the proliferation of illegal drugs is a problem of similar scope in Europe as the U.S.
Anything to avoid accepting responsibility for ourselves, we have to blame “less developed” nations for our own failure to treat addiction at scale. Did you know the opiate crisis was created by the pharmaceutical industry for profit? Or that the CIA is known to have been (and let’s be honest, likely still is) involved in international drug trafficking, including financing the Nicaraguan Contras’ cocaine trafficking into the US, primarily in poor black communities?
Our for-profit healthcare system, the criminalization of drug addiction, and deliberate support of drug trafficking by our own government to achieve political aims both foreign and domestic created our drug problem. We have only ourselves to blame.
lol
Americans are addicted to everything. Weed, coke, crack, fentanyl, alcohol, pain killers. If only they were addicted to not blaming everyone else for their fuck ups. Obviously, they are not mature adults.
Just yesterday Trump admitted it was for the oil. Which also has the benefit of distracting from the Epstein files.
The Epstein Files are a distraction from the ongoing genocide in Gaza
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a distraction from the planet getting hotter
The planet getting hotter is a distraction from the oppression of the non-billionaires.
There is no war but class war.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
you wake up in the Squid Games universe
every day
it’s oil and rare earth… but also the pretext if maduro being a dictator is true.
Afghanistan
Nothing to do with Al Qaeda
Maybe /pol/ isn’t the best source for deep thoughts.
Yeah that’s like, a very basic fact to mess up so badly. Noone seriously disputes that Al-Qaeda did 9/11 (not just “in partnership with” as though they were along for the ride) and the country the US invaded that had nothing to do with 9/11 was Iraq, not Afghanistan.
Americans have a collective memory that lasts more than 3 years challenge (impossible difficulty)
It’s like the old saying, ”If USA saw what A was doing to B they would invade C to ’protect D from E.’”
If we really cared about drugs we would have drone struck the sackler family.
If you smoke it you’re an addict, if you take it in a pill you’re an upstanding citizen.
They are becoming self-aware 😮
RIP KingCobraJFS
I was listening to his christmas album today lol
hahah, me too. it’s so awful, I love it
I miss him. Gonna pour one out for him rn 🫗
indeed, chairbugs be drinking good tonight. check this out for a classic Cobra vocal cover: https://youtu.be/hGZqob-j8-A
Well that’s how a few hundred military bases can change perception lmao.
sorry i didnt know i was being too mean. ill remove the comment.
Nah, another approach is better because it makes you feel superior. That’s what the most important thing!
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