“Afghanistan used to be a net exporter of food… but when the US invaded and took control of the country, it became the producer of 93% of the world’s heroin. I asked the DEA, and they told me that the powerful wanted that opium planted there.”

John Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, denounces how the US trafficked heroin in Afghanistan and how the DEA itself was involved in opium plantations.

This same US that turned Afghanistan into the epicenter of global drug trafficking now claims to want to combat drug trafficking (which they finance) in Mexico… They are interested in chaos and disorder, perpetual destabilization, so they can enter the country as “saviors.”

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2026166000291397632/vid/avc1/1280x720/Jon050jRwUxbx3kO.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2026166109410353384#m

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    Just a reminder but the opium wars were about weakening Chinese society as well

    One of the things my father always said admiringly of Mao was that he treated the people on opium as victims, not criminals

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      Yep, the obscene part of this is that the Yankees lamented the decline of opioid production:

      Poppy has been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop, boding ill for the economy, poverty and the ban’s future.

      Poppy has largely been replaced by wheat, a low-value crop that does not allow poor farmers to make ends meet, which bodes ill for the ban’s sustainability.

      Source -> https://archive.ph/9GqLB#selection-1903.0-1903.157

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        Their brains are so broken. It is downright perverse to call wheat a “low-value crop”. Wheat is a food crop! Food, aka the thing people need to eat to live! Fuck your money, there is no higher value than human life!

        There is no better agricultural policy that a country can implement than that which feeds their own people. If you are not food self-sustaining you are not sovereign.

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          It is downright perverse to call wheat a “low-value crop”

          Not to mention food prices are rising and they tell everyone to eat worse instead, while destroying 40% of food

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    The US 1776 revolution never was about FreedomTM. It was about New England saying “Daddy, can I play some imperialism like you?”.

    “When you grow up and have more warships than I do”, must’ve been the answer.

    If it had truly been about freedom, why weren’t slaves freed since day one, like Haiti? Why wait 100 years and a civil war for freedom to exist only on paper in the South anyway? Why does all the hate and racism exist today?

    So it was a matter of time the US wanted to play with opium wars like daddy Britain. Opium to do a classicide in working class neighbourhoods. Opium wars and opium class wars.

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    Oh nice just as i was saying for years, except i would never go so far on the nose to say literal DEA organised this lol. Typical leftist conspiracy theory meme.

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    Did this person find morality after a conviction and having his million dollars Trump bribe turned down or an I thinking of someone else?