The "War on Drugs" is a complete fabrication for an actual "War on Americans".
Why do you believe anything this administration says?
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why is nothing being done about this? what is the rest of the world cautious about, are we truly untouchable? this is madness.
You know what 'the global community' likes even more than the moral high ground? Lots of cheap oil. And this time they won't even have to deal with the refugee crisis!
The deal is we get our hands dirty and the rest of the capitalist world gets cheap oil. It's very bad obviously but it's not any different than what we've been doing for decades. We do a bit of negotiating with places like Nigeria and Venezuela, enough to get some infrastructure built and get some boots on the ground to prove reserves and infiltrate the government, and then when it make sense we provoke a hot war, destroy their defense infrastructure, replace it with our military base/contractors and profit. Cheap oil from Russia is drying up and Europe is thirsty. The Middle East is a lot less easy to control. The playbook has always been to exhaust the reserves furthest away from our ports first (Middle East, Caucasus) and then when the time is right swoop on the easier stuff. Venezuela and Nigeria have always been on the menu.
Get real. WTF can anyone do against the largest military in the world? A country that has hundreds of nukes and is being currently led by a senile, corrupt moron, that recently announced that he would resume nuclear testing?
right. so.. we're untouchable. that sucks.
9-11 enters the chat
It's unfortunate, but yes, I believe that's true
The USA has been able to drone strike or invade any country they want since WWII. Just make up a bullshit excuse.
Must really want that Venezuelan oil
And it’s not even very good oil from what I’ve learned, but it is accessible. A small kid with lunch money.
It's not good oil in the sense that it needs a lot of processing, that I have read.
I believe I read there are also coveted rare earths there, as well.
Anyone know someone who can confirm if there is actually any shortages of cocaine. Like if these were all actually drug runners, the cost of cocaine should be going up and there should be shortages. Which... I must say the people that I knew in the past, if coke had shortages, meth mixed and sales in meth increase
If they were actual drug boats, the CIA would have posted more job offerings by now.
Do they post job offerings? When I was in college they used to recruit through a couple professors. Professors would recommend students and then they would receive a call sometime around graduation.
Gaza is the proving ground for US foreign policy around the world.
Exactly. The Trump administration hasn’t had enough fun funding a genocide, so now they want to do it themselves.
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Will do so. Thx for the ping.