I’m curious about this too. The local druggies are looking depressed at the bars I frequent but maybe that’s just bc their drug dealer, my ex bf got locked up (haha)
NAFTA created the largest and most effective smuggling route in modern history. The vast vast majority of drugs come on trucks crossing the bridges between the US and Mexico.
The rest of them tend to come through the pacific. “Fighting” drugs in the Caribbean/Atlantic is another example of Trump being mentally stuck in the 80s. That was when shit was coming through there, and that has been over for quite some time.
The question you want to ask is has anyone been having trouble finding meth and cocaine. Shrooms and MDMA don't come from Latin America. I have not noticed any decline in availability of cocaine, no.
I was being facetious. There is obviously no shortage of drugs. If we can't keep drugs out of prisons there's no way we're keeping them out of an entire country.
Don't the COs get paid like $12-20 an hour? Out of all the systemic issues, I feel like drugs in prison would be the easiest to solve if there was any willingness to throw money at the problem.
Perhaps, but how much to border control agents make? And of course there is a concentration of addicts in jail but still, it is a systemic problem pretty much in every prison except maybe supermax. If that can't be solved in an secured building, how the fuck are they going to keep them out of an entire country?
Couple of the archive links are broken so I'll just paste the article here:
President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.
“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office.
The US president for days has been pledging to broaden the effort, which comes after the Pentagon has launched a series of attacks on what it has called drug-smuggling boats in international waters off the coast of South America.
While Trump’s posturing has largely been seen as a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he on Friday insisted the land targeting may not only impact Venezuela.
[from a different article] Trump Says US Eyes Land Strikes Next After Drug Boat Attacks
“It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Venezuela,” he said, adding that “people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets.”
Trump has justified the actions in part by framing the fight against drug smuggling as akin to combat operations. He told reporters that if overdose deaths were counted like combat deaths, it would be “like a war that would be unparalleled.”
Striking targets on land would represent a major escalation, and Maduro earlier this week said that if his nation came under foreign attack, the working class should mount a “general insurrectionary strike” and push for “an even more radical revolution.”
What we are seeing today is not an anomaly, it is what this “war” has always been about: imperialism and political control. From the very earliest days it’s been this way.
If he wants to hit sources, it’d have to be two things they can’t touch (well they can on one of them): Chinese chemical factories, and Colombian plantations. The Colombian coca plantations are very interesting since the bulk of the production comes out of the rightoid paramilitary (death squads) controlled areas, which they never defoliate or attack.
But yeah Venezuela is a retarded target, and the only real serious drug trafficking, the source of the “cartel de los soles”, that happened in Venezuela was prior to the bolivarian revolution when the CIA was using crooked military guys to smuggle coke out lol.
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I dont party too much nowadays but has any American here had trouble finding drugs in the last few months?
I’m curious about this too. The local druggies are looking depressed at the bars I frequent but maybe that’s just bc their drug dealer, my ex bf got locked up (haha)
Great excuse for drug dealers to raise prices
The real affordability crisis will be coke finally exceeding $100/gram.
NAFTA created the largest and most effective smuggling route in modern history. The vast vast majority of drugs come on trucks crossing the bridges between the US and Mexico.
The rest of them tend to come through the pacific. “Fighting” drugs in the Caribbean/Atlantic is another example of Trump being mentally stuck in the 80s. That was when shit was coming through there, and that has been over for quite some time.
I think it's mostly trying to start shit with Venezuela to topple their govt.
Indeed
The question you want to ask is has anyone been having trouble finding meth and cocaine. Shrooms and MDMA don't come from Latin America. I have not noticed any decline in availability of cocaine, no.
I was being facetious. There is obviously no shortage of drugs. If we can't keep drugs out of prisons there's no way we're keeping them out of an entire country.
Don't the COs get paid like $12-20 an hour? Out of all the systemic issues, I feel like drugs in prison would be the easiest to solve if there was any willingness to throw money at the problem.
Perhaps, but how much to border control agents make? And of course there is a concentration of addicts in jail but still, it is a systemic problem pretty much in every prison except maybe supermax. If that can't be solved in an secured building, how the fuck are they going to keep them out of an entire country?
Couple of the archive links are broken so I'll just paste the article here:
President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.
“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office.
The US president for days has been pledging to broaden the effort, which comes after the Pentagon has launched a series of attacks on what it has called drug-smuggling boats in international waters off the coast of South America.
While Trump’s posturing has largely been seen as a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he on Friday insisted the land targeting may not only impact Venezuela.
[from a different article] Trump Says US Eyes Land Strikes Next After Drug Boat Attacks “It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Venezuela,” he said, adding that “people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets.”
Trump has justified the actions in part by framing the fight against drug smuggling as akin to combat operations. He told reporters that if overdose deaths were counted like combat deaths, it would be “like a war that would be unparalleled.”
Striking targets on land would represent a major escalation, and Maduro earlier this week said that if his nation came under foreign attack, the working class should mount a “general insurrectionary strike” and push for “an even more radical revolution.”
Sounds like Colombia might catch a few strays
Does he think the war on drugs is an actual war?
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Those were wars for drugs
What we are seeing today is not an anomaly, it is what this “war” has always been about: imperialism and political control. From the very earliest days it’s been this way.
So he's going to bomb Mexico?
If he wants to hit sources, it’d have to be two things they can’t touch (well they can on one of them): Chinese chemical factories, and Colombian plantations. The Colombian coca plantations are very interesting since the bulk of the production comes out of the rightoid paramilitary (death squads) controlled areas, which they never defoliate or attack.
But yeah Venezuela is a retarded target, and the only real serious drug trafficking, the source of the “cartel de los soles”, that happened in Venezuela was prior to the bolivarian revolution when the CIA was using crooked military guys to smuggle coke out lol.