The biggest surprise for me lately has been how little they care about manufacturing consent anymore. They’re already moving military equipment into place and I feel like I barely even heard about this drug cartel angle they’re taking.
They’ve been laying the rhetorical basis for a while, conservatives have been harping about the drug crisis, cities overrun by foreign drugs etc for years now. Trump has said many times that there should be the death penalty for drug dealers, arguing that dealing fentanyl or whatever is a form of mass murder. Even in his first term they justified crackdowns on immigrants because they claimed they were cartel members flooding us with drugs to purposely destroy the US. To his supporters it’s a logical step to take direct military action.
See: ft bragg cartel
The only reason the US would give a shit about cartels is to cut out the competition. But as recent fox news coverage would show the current saber rattling in Venezuela is about the oil
They always have been.
Alfred McCoy wrote a book about the CIAs involvement in heroin smuggling in Southeast Asia. We all know about the Contras/Reagan. Afghanistan and CIA heroin smuggling has been happening since the 1980s.
None of this is new. This is well trod territory. Old hat.
Also crack cocaine
reagan/contras
Rick Ross/Danilo Blandon/etc are included in it.
Ayo this is the best “this you”
No, sweaty, you’re thinking of Maduro. ☺️
He’s the reason crack was an epidemic in the 80s and 90s
He replied that it’s not actually him. No idea where the person in this tweet got info that the picture is of him.
If he was in the military it was him.
If he served in a different role, he was simply enabling the deployment that was helping defend the poppy trade.
For similar reasons every member of Israel’s military are guilty of the atrocities.
They meant “you” as in the US military
sure but I’m still tired of seeing this kind of weasel-worded social media post.
They are also pretty big terror dealers
US military is so pathetic. They should all be ashamed.
Fuck, I miss heroin.
