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Good article--if you're interested, I wrote something similar arguing that we should not, in fact, go to war with the cartels. https://benthams.substack.com/p/against-attacking-mexico

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Interesting and informative--thanks! Have you read Fentanyl, Inc.? I recommend it for its compelling explanation of how this problem really took off (initially with black tar heroin from Mexico) in the aftermath of the Big Pharma-created Oxy addiction crisis. It continues to amaze me that anyone should trust the very industry which essentially created the new (to the United States) phenomenon of sidewalk zombies.

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I don't think Vivek has taken a close enough look at policy myself he tends initially to bloviate and then when he's looked more carefully at the issue moderate (at least that's how his foreign policy position evolved over the campaign). Crenshaw strikes me as just a dude with an eye black eye and not much more. CATO have written a lot about and Justin Logan who wrote their paper pet peeve is the war on drugs, and the price of cocaine as the US began operations in Columbia (it fell). There is a solution. It is not rehabilitative it is punitive. (A) The US body politic would not tolerate it (B) Its probably a day late and dollar short. (C) Punition to a certain degree has been tried and failed though death penalty is a lot harsher than long sentencing (D) It may backfire badly in the same way long prison sentences for minor drug offenses did. (E) The US is far bigger and a lot different to places where they are very strict and harsh on both users and traffickers.

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Occam's razor says that these car of black-women really were running drugs and the cartels hate competition;

The fact that this turf-war has the eye of Sauron; A SUV full of BLM drug-winners transferring drugs the perfect cover at woke border on return, who would even dare to inspect; But the cartel knew.

Soros wants nothing more than infinite Fentanyl sent to Red States, and having black women as couriers is the perfect cover.

The stupid talk about bombing, is just CIA-USA telling CIA-Mexico 'keep your kills off the news'

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