Bullets from the Drug War To: [email protected]
by Dmitry Orlov ClubOrlov (March 24 2010) * The US has lost the "War on Drugs" * The losing side is usually not the one to decide when a fight is over or how it ends * Unlike other recent defeats, this lost war is a defeat followed by an invasion * Mexico is the natural staging area for the invasion (inconvenient though it is for the Mexicans) * New franchises are being set up to service the North American drug market (which is the biggest in the world) * The CIA has to eat, and all they know how to do competently is run guns and drugs and control thugs; they get a seat at the table * The narcs have to eat too, and all they are trained to do is deal (with) drugs; they get a seat at the table too * As the federales grow weak in the US and Mexico, the battle lines will advance north of the border, leaving Mexico a quiet and largely intact backwater * This is an inter-US conflict, because Americans are the most avid consumers, sellers, and prosecutors of drugs * Life in the USA gives everyone a pain that is for many people simply not survivable without drugs: either alcohol, pharmaceuticals or illegal drugs * Illegal drugs are far more cost-effective than either pharma or alcohol - government-licensed industries which are either excessively lucrative or taxed heavily * As Americans give up hope, they will need to self-medicate in ever-larger numbers * They will be far more able financially to afford illegal drugs than either pharma or alcohol. * Illegal drugs (and moonshine) are two very large post-collapse enrepreneurial opportunities within the fUSA/???? [Orlov 2005] * This is no longer a war against drugs; it is now a contest between alternative drug distribution systems * One alternative is a centralized, paramilitary organization run by CIA remnants, former military, and former police * Another alternative is ethnic mafias, which will diversify into many other kinds of trade. * The third, nautrally most cost-effective alternative will be provided by informal, local distribution networks based on barter, which will be all that is left once the dust settles * The downside of all this is that it will be hard to find anyone sober enough to operate a light switch * The upside to that is that the national electrical grid goes away, so there will be very little demand for competent light switch operators http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/03/bullets-from-drug-war.html _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
