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If we realise that the "war on drugs" was actually the CIA's war on the competition because counter narco insurgency is, for instance and purposes, indistinguishable from narco insurgency, the "war on drugs" was a roaring success. I mean, those illegal regime changes and death squads aren't free, ya know.
Anybody who wants to know more about the drug war, it's racist and fascist origins, and it's help in building the current police state, read the book "chasing the scream" I was so mad when I finished that book.
Any book featuring the CIA leaves me
Sources:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Project Phoenix
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
All the Shah's Men
If that was true, then wouldn’t the war on drugs hurt the CIA’s drug sales too? None of this makes any sense.
This whole contradictory reductionist bullshit conspiracy theory never made any sense.
Reduce supply and the price goes up.
ok, so there isn't a commodities market for drugs, and they wren't moving it in enough of a quantity that they were making much from the price fluctuations because there wasn't that much coke on earth. the most someone could make on such subtle price fluctuations would have been 5pt shit, and only if they were Pablo Escobar sitting on a Pablo Escobar-sized stash selling it all to someone else at once... and Pablo Escobar couldn't have given a shit about a 5pt shift in the value of cocaine.
and these aren't guys who really tracked the minute-by-minute price fluctuations of this on some sort of Drugs NASDAQ, so it's likely that nobody ever would have been aware. so the math of this just doesn't really make sense.
now do you see why I called this "reductionist bullshit"?
I’m afraid I didn’t really get your message. Where was this minute-by-minute market implied?
oh, nevermind. i was just saying that the drug market is a lot more complicated than the simple concept of supply in demand, but I really didn't want to start a discussion. I'm trying to have a chill afternoon, and I don't want to get into a discussion about economics. which is, ya know, not chill, lol
have a nice day
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.......he could probably smuggle some drugs through the barbed wire.
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Why would a war on the completion alone hurt the CIAs drug sales? Think through what you're saying before labeling it in that way, just because you dont understand what's being said. If your drug runners make it across the border without any hassle, you make more money than anyone else. It really isn't as hard to understand as you're making out to be.
Also, I mean the CIA literally ran the heroin game out of Laos and Myanmar from the start Vietnam war until they switched the base of operations of Afghanistan in the early 2000s. It's how they paid for operation gladio and the illegal regime changes around the world, in the exact same way they flooded America with crack in the 80s.
It not making sense to you is a user issue.