[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Bullets from the Drug War

[Bill Totten]

by Dmitry Orlov

Club Orlov (March 29 2009)


*  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/бСША [Orlov 2005]
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dtxqwqr_20dc52sm

*  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 will go away,
so there will be little need of that

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/03/bullets-from-drug-war.html


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