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richwicks says

The United States federal government is FULLY involved with the drug trade, all over the world, including the United States.

Why? What's the point? The government which can pretty much print trillions in world reserve currency suddenly needs to be involved in low-tech narcotics production in some 3rd World shithole? Who buys all the poppy from the farmers? US Army? USDA? Who transports it? USAF? How much money are we talking about? Couple of billions? Three? How come not a single whistleblower has emerged in 20 years? Sounds extremely silly, like shit Russian TV likes to peddle.

PS. Meanwhile Russian diplomats were legit busted in Argentina transporting cocaine in diplomatic packages on Russian government plane. But lookie here, US is in Afghanistan and poppy is grown there too! It's not a coincidence! No Siree Bob!

There's a grim logic to CIA being involved in drugs, arms and human trafficking.

You can operate from one of two perspectives: human beings are good, they shouldn't use drugs or intoxicate themselves, they should not engage in unusual sex practices, and they shouldn't buy and use armaments to hurt or dominate each other. Laws should be based on outlawing and punishing these practices.

Or, you can operate from the 'original sin' perspective, that people will be as flawed and bad and immoral as you allow them to be, they will always use drugs and intoxicating substances relentlessly in spite of rigid punitive sanctions, they will always engage in unusual sex practices and sell sex, and they will always relentlessly seek armaments to harm and dominate their fellow man.

The problem is when you outlaw things that people will relentlessly do, you create huge profit centers for criminals who will sell the people what they want at inflated prices due to those things being illegal.

These criminals then create power centers that can challenge the government, and can damage currencies by holding large reserves of them, buy politicians, influence government, incite armed rebellions etc. etc. These adverse, well armed, well financed centers can have multiple heads.

There was a point when the American industrialists, financiers and intelligence agencies decided that these inevitable profits of vice should be captured by the State and themselves, because that would be a 'lesser evil' that would help preserve the government and keep their fingers on the pulse of criminals and rebels. You would not have these huge profits going to entities who could destabilize currencies, politics, the government, or the country.

So, they just whistled at the devil and decided to take over as much of these relentlessly inevitable enterprises as they could using government resources.

The problem is, you cannot enter these devil's bargains without becoming relentlessly corrupt, too, and that is where it stands. We traded an unofficial government by actual criminals for an official government of criminals. As far as the people are concerned, the end results are winding up the same.

CIA officers cannot be arrested, subjected to subpoena or charged with crimes. They have immunity and are often sheep dipped or operating under aliases. Yet, they are organizing and operating criminal networks, performing executions at will, and enlisting criminal co-conspirators who are NOT immune.

When they started the old 'war on drugs', the laws were presented as wearing the white hat. The laws were as much for the purpose of having a governmental instrument for trying and imprisoning the competitors of the intelligence agency drug sales, weapons deals, and trafficking, and for 'retiring' their own co-conspirators when they couldn't be relied upon any more or directly assassinated.

There are individuals who worked for the CIA drug trades who wound up imprisoned for their activities, when their CIA bosses were never touched.