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Krystal and Saagar discuss how the CIA propped up the Afghan drug trade for years.
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Olly North might be interesting to ask about this, it seems since the Iran-Contra scandal the CIA has been in the drugs business, so can’t say I’m surprised by this.
Talking of the CIA, did you guys happen to see John Gentry on Shawn Ryan’s show? It’s an absolute must watch.
Much less known is that a similar drugs-for-weapons scheme existed in the early 1990s when the international jihad fighting for Bosnia had to be illegally supplied with arms, contravening the UN weapons embargo. This involved large shipments of cocaine through (pre-Chavez) Venezuela and the Netherlands, via Curaçao, a Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela.
A future member of the Dutch royal family played an important role in this, acting first as a honey pot to infiltrate and ultimately take over an existing Dutch drug network, and then as an intermediate with son-of-a-Nazi Muhamed Sacirbey for the Bosnians.
Interesting that the US Vile Empire has responded to the Taliban’s eradication of opium production via the ubiquitous production of fentanyl. By the way, Gary Webb wrote “Dark Alliance” about the CIA’s murderous policy of supplying crack to US inner cities during the Reagan regime via dealers like “Freeway Rick Ross” (and others) to fund Reagan’s obsession with returning Nicaragua’s fascist Samozistas (Somoza regime) to power, funded via the CIA’s drug trade.[1] Webb’s work of 1998 has been criticized by the MSM for his failure to cross-reference his work, where Webb firmly believed that readers pay little attention to footnotes.… Read more »
I’ve wondered if the reason our CIA suddenly lost interest in ruling Afghanistan is the steep drop in demand for opium as fentanyl suddenly became popular. It is easier to produce and smuggle too.
Why go through the cumbersome process of cultivating poppy plants over a large area, and involving many people, when a small crew can cook drugs at one location? The drug lords in the de facto autonomous Shan states of Myanmar, who previously were the world’s top suppliers of opium for heroin, switched to the production of synthetic drugs, in particular the variation of methamphetamine popular in Thailand under the name Ya ba. The Shan states drug lords have diversified further, claiming that gambling (both online and in physical casinos) and internet scamming is less work and even more lucrative than… Read more »
The Taliban “asked people nicely” to stop growing opium, and so they did.
How does that square with the narrative we were hearing for 2 decades about Afghan opium production being unstoppable because Afghanistan was basically an unruly anarchic territory, where local tribesmen in their isolated valleys were fiercely independent, and impoverished farmers had no other choice than to grow opium to survive, due to the soil not being suitable for other crops?