USA failed to stop the drug trade (opium poppy crops) in that country, Taliban comes in a nuke that trade in 1 year, puts in question if the Americans were in fact running the drug trade themselves under their rule.
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That's mad. The US would never promote illegal drug trade.
Whitey Bulger: protected by the FBI for decades while being the biggest heroin importer in the northeast
Freeway Ricky Ross: supplied by the CIA with coke from the Contras, in a relationship mediated by a DEA informant
Golden Triangle heroin trade: controlled by the CIA for decades after the Korean War, arming and protecting manufacturers and traffickers, with heroin flown on CIA planes
The French Connection: French gangsters were protected by the CIA and allowed to import heroin to their primary market, the US, in exchange for keeping the port of Marseille out of the control of French communists
La Corporacion: the biggest Bolivian cocaine cartel, the "GM of cocaine", started with the cooperation and protection of the CIA according to a DEA agent whose investigations into them were repeatedly thwarted by the State Dept and CIA
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Puts in question? I'd argue it's 100% obvious. The opioid epidemic lines up pretty well with the invasion of Afghanistan.
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wasn't useless for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin
$$$billions in profits, I bet shareholders attend their, temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques, to thank their fucking God's for having blessed them with wealth.
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Don't forget the tens of thousands of dead civilians.
Well the war machine did a bang up job at preventing Ghadaffi from implementing gold backed currency to keep our scam money system going.
and instituting slave markets. don't forget the slave markets.
So THAT'S where my affordable housing and groceries went!
Not useless at all. In fact they did exactly what they set out to do. They produced a fuckin ton of shareholder value for industries that profit off war!
Reminder of the time the US overthrew its own dictator in haiti to create a "liberal anticommunist" president but they killed him 3 months in because he wasn't enough of a fascist dictator
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