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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (open.substack.com)   2601 thread views

Reaper Drones over Houston: A War in Mexico Would Mean War in America

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Take I wrote on increasing calls in Republican and bi-partisan spaces for a Military intervention into Mexico against the Cartels, and why this would inevitably lead to armed conflict within America itself, along with a possible death spiral of instability in the wider North American region.

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You can't just get rid of the drug dealers because drug users expand into the role as opportunity and demand allows.

I've know dozens of people who've used drugs (Marijauna, coke, psychedelics, etc.) and fulfilled the dealer role at various points, some near professionally.

Basically Supply-side drug enforcement doesn't work, you can maybe get the trade to shift or change shape or increase the marginal price of drugs by 50% but the structural margins keep new cartels, smuggling networks and gangs forming...

To have any success without turning to nation into a totalitarian police state you'd have to start going after users, for being users.

Start arresting randomly for disruptive behaviour, public drunkenness, etc. then Drug test immediately, then charge with possession and consumption, with follow on charges... and you'd have to do that to millions... And heaven help you if middle-class white kids aren't being caught up into it and there's now a massive racial dynamic and revolt, and heaven help you if you actually make upper-midlde-class white American's suffer the consequences of their preferred policies and have THEIR kids dragged off and imprisoned for years... or they'll revolt.

Basically any intervention you could do is either completely ineffective or would be totalitarian in some manner that would start a revolt.

Singapore simply hung the dealers. Seemed to work pretty good.

Basically Supply-side drug enforcement doesn't work

It worked in Davao.

Kill enough drug dealers and you can make drugs sufficiently difficult to get that normal people don’t have access to them anymore. There’s always going to be a few weirdos doing drugs, sure, but you can keep it far enough away from anyone who doesn’t opt in that it doesn’t matter on a societal level.

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