Even if it's a small amount compared to the overall amount trafficked over a year's time, more than a few people are going to end up dead over this seizure.
The cartels just don't shrug when they lose this much product.
We've been playing that game with them for years though. All it does is give them an excuse to raise the prices and then they make even more money. The profit margin on coke is insane. They buy it from them farmers for like $500 a kilo and then retail it for 50k a kilo in San Diego. They have an almost unlimited supply. Its just like De Beers did with diamonds in the 1980s (an other diamond monopolies before them) https://www.diamondportfolio.com.au/investor-centre/market-information/de-beers-monopoly-broken/
The war on drugs is and always has been a joke. Coke is not gold, its a product just like diamonds. The CIA has been in on it the whole time. They make more money WITH the illegality fear and false sense of scarcity than without it.
That is my point. You have to go after the actual problem, not just wack-a-mole. This is currently just a show of force and coms to the normies (who don't yet understand this) that The Sharif is back in town. Like I said, from the black hat CIA's point of view, Its a problem they want to have. Now they just have an excuse to raise the price, unfortunately. Now on the other hand, once we have the wall completely finished and properly manned AND get back complete control of the maritime and air aspects of smuggling it will be a different story....Even then, it would still be wack-a-mole.
You are underplaying this by a lot. If 150 tons is the current influx for a year, they just confiscated 14.5 tons in one bust. That's almost 9.6% of a years worth in cocaine alone.
Say your ballpark of 300 tons is accurate, it becomes ~4.8% in one bust. Yeah it sounds small, but with the current hand at the tiller , do you think it will stop there?
you haven't changed your rule set at all. the current game actually is whack-a-mole because the money is being attacked on multiple fronts. USAID and many other things have been closed. they are in a landscape of diminishing resources and are beginning to run out. every one of these thousand cuts counts.
Yeah, its definitely positive, I totally agree. Like a lot of things we have been seeing lately it's still just coms to the normies that we a winning. If you really want to stop the cartels, the "war on drugs" isn't the answer. All you would have to do to completely bankrup the central and south American cartels is 1) Find some way to destroy the coca plant in South America. 2) Legalize cocaine in the USA but make it very illegal to get caught under the influence while attempting to do anything responsible (like what they do with DUIs or drinking on the job but actually enforce it).
Agreed the war on drugs was bs, just cover for CIA and other projects.
Totally disagree about legalizing drugs. If you wanna do drugs, go to Canada, they'll even give you a flop house and clean needles, spoons, anything you want.
Well then option one of what I said before. If they can make a bio weapon that targets specific people's DNA then how come they cant make one that infects one plant species? (they can) Problem solved. Hit them where it actually hurts.
Even if it's a small amount compared to the overall amount trafficked over a year's time, more than a few people are going to end up dead over this seizure.
The cartels just don't shrug when they lose this much product.
We've been playing that game with them for years though. All it does is give them an excuse to raise the prices and then they make even more money. The profit margin on coke is insane. They buy it from them farmers for like $500 a kilo and then retail it for 50k a kilo in San Diego. They have an almost unlimited supply. Its just like De Beers did with diamonds in the 1980s (an other diamond monopolies before them) https://www.diamondportfolio.com.au/investor-centre/market-information/de-beers-monopoly-broken/
The war on drugs is and always has been a joke. Coke is not gold, its a product just like diamonds. The CIA has been in on it the whole time. They make more money WITH the illegality fear and false sense of scarcity than without it.
cutting into the cia's end of it would be the point. it's all about the money supply.
That is my point. You have to go after the actual problem, not just wack-a-mole. This is currently just a show of force and coms to the normies (who don't yet understand this) that The Sharif is back in town. Like I said, from the black hat CIA's point of view, Its a problem they want to have. Now they just have an excuse to raise the price, unfortunately. Now on the other hand, once we have the wall completely finished and properly manned AND get back complete control of the maritime and air aspects of smuggling it will be a different story....Even then, it would still be wack-a-mole.
You are underplaying this by a lot. If 150 tons is the current influx for a year, they just confiscated 14.5 tons in one bust. That's almost 9.6% of a years worth in cocaine alone.
Say your ballpark of 300 tons is accurate, it becomes ~4.8% in one bust. Yeah it sounds small, but with the current hand at the tiller , do you think it will stop there?
you haven't changed your rule set at all. the current game actually is whack-a-mole because the money is being attacked on multiple fronts. USAID and many other things have been closed. they are in a landscape of diminishing resources and are beginning to run out. every one of these thousand cuts counts.
Coke is one of those drugs that I would never even consider doing.
I've seen how it's made and you have no idea what it was cut with before you got it.
Heck, even booze was a crap shoot at one time, you had no idea if someone had spiked it with lacquer thinner or something else that could kill you.
Exactly. Al Capone became one of the richest gangsters ever from selling bootleg garbage liquor.
Yeah, its definitely positive, I totally agree. Like a lot of things we have been seeing lately it's still just coms to the normies that we a winning. If you really want to stop the cartels, the "war on drugs" isn't the answer. All you would have to do to completely bankrup the central and south American cartels is 1) Find some way to destroy the coca plant in South America. 2) Legalize cocaine in the USA but make it very illegal to get caught under the influence while attempting to do anything responsible (like what they do with DUIs or drinking on the job but actually enforce it).
Agreed the war on drugs was bs, just cover for CIA and other projects.
Totally disagree about legalizing drugs. If you wanna do drugs, go to Canada, they'll even give you a flop house and clean needles, spoons, anything you want.
Well then option one of what I said before. If they can make a bio weapon that targets specific people's DNA then how come they cant make one that infects one plant species? (they can) Problem solved. Hit them where it actually hurts.
I agree, most drugs like coke should be legal with very stiff penalties for being high in public or for allowing minors to have access.
Coke and all sorts of drugs were legal through most of the 1800's and there were very few addicts.
Maybe survival was so much tougher that you had to concentrate on just staying alive and that gave you little room for recreational drugs.