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News & Current Events May 12, 2026 at 10:41 PM

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico

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Exclusive: CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico | CNN Politics
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Exclusive: CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico | CNN Politics
Since last year, CIA operatives inside Mexico have directly participated in deadly attacks on several, mostly mid-level cartel members, the sources said.

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Gone213 13 hr ago +902
Hmm, so those two CIA people who were killed in Mexico last month were definitely there for a mission.
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driver_dan_party_van 13 hr ago +328
The alphabet boys have been operating there for some time. [On Jul 27, 2019 3:02 PM](https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00164984.pdf), KenT wrote: >We've had another serious incident since an american shot the trial judge in our child sex trafficking case here. >He and I both think this latest incident is tied to the fact we have reached out to your team. Who on your team knows we are talking to you, anyone assigned from NSA, CIA or US State Department? Please understand peoples lives here are in jeopardy. We have had 4 armed attacks against us, my partner has shot and killed 2 and wounded 5 american agents to date, numerous white american agents following us in vans assigned to US Embassy. >Jorge was attacked and lost his arm. The President of Mexico is keenly aware of our case against \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and other US Officials. This case we have here is most certainly connected to yours, we have the proof. Our case will help bring a whole new dynamic to what you know and who is involved, Prince Phillip is small fry compared to what we have uncovered. >You may want to question the Ex US Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. Earl Anthony Wayne about his involvement with an underage girl when he attended and was arrested by the Federal Police. We believe that \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_and Epstein were involved organizing this party and it was held in Juarez, Mex in 2014 at a US Consulate controlled housing facility. Ask him how he knows-\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. >He was sentenced in Mexico in 2017 to a life sentence for impregnating an 11 year old girl, her son's dna matches Waynes 100%, but he is allowing an ex-US Marine to stand in his place to serve his sentence in Mexico. That was an agreement worked out between our US State Dept and a judge in Mexico after a huge payoff. Mr. Anthony has an outstanding arrest warrant here in Mexico for avoiding sentencing. His cell number is I want confirm that the phone you will be using has been swept for malware and key loggers. After our call you'll understand why we are so concerned with secure comms here.
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lostroadrunner22 12 hr ago +29
The Border Trilogy by Don Winslow is such a good series
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thecatdaddysupreme 10 hr ago +4
I was thinking of picking up those books, you liked it?
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analog_mishima 10 hr ago +3
So good.
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lostroadrunner22 10 hr ago +4
Power of the dog was one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s. Intense.
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DeliverySoggy2700 13 hr ago +109
They’ve been shifting drugs around since before the Cuban middle crisis. They, themselves, acknowledged it in unredacted reports. I appreciate your effort, but the truth is that it’s been going on for about 70 years, if not longer. They have released data on themselves proving it. So it’s pretty much irrefutable.
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driver_dan_party_van 13 hr ago +43
Of course, we're in agreement, I'm just adding some of their recent escapades to the thread. They do more than one thing at a time.
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HANLDC1111 5 hr ago +5
The CIA has been f****** up foreign nations for as long as they have been in business. Look at Chile
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_dCkO 9 hr ago +9
Every blank is Trump, isn’t it?
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SevereRunOfFate 11 hr ago +20
No else has said it so I'll say it What the f***
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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 8 hr ago +7
This is super interesting thanks for sharing! So basically mexico cops/intel agency has proof of US officials and epstein about child r*** and trafficking, and american 3 letter agencies are killing them for it? Who would have thunk
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Good_Restaurant15 12 hr ago +27
For anyone wondering, Donald Trump.
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DisenchantedByrd 11 hr ago +6
“Las Tres Letras” - CIA, DEA, FBI.
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baithammer 9 hr ago +2
Forgot SOCOM, they apparently have been over there as well.
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Hail-Hydrate 6 hr ago +2
Yeah but that's five letters.
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baithammer 6 hr ago +2
Can't have a war on drugs without the military being involved.
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cantproveidid 8 hr ago +3
We've been involving ourselves at least since 1914. You could probably include Secretary of State William Seward's suggesting France leave Mexico in 1867
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lucidgroove 13 hr ago +14
Nah just tourism
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Radiant_Picture9292 10 hr ago +3
Someone isn’t getting their cut of the sales!
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rambouhh 10 hr ago +4
Yes lol, that was reported the day it happened. They were dressed as state police from chihuahua and were coming back from a raid where they were with the state police undercover
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maxsmart01 13 hr ago +2896
It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
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CommunitRagnar 13 hr ago +624
I mean they were doing raids disguised as mexican officials (allegedly) it was secret until it wasn't
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EmperorSadrax 12 hr ago +439
I imagine if a foreign country was doing this in the USA it wouldn’t be taken lightly
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nick_tron 12 hr ago +165
Aren’t they working with the Mexican govt?
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EmperorSadrax 11 hr ago +168
Maybe they had an agreement on the state level with the Governor but the President openly said that she or her cabinet on the federal level were not informed… so I really have no idea.
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marcusr111 11 hr ago +262
This is complete speculation, but any Mexican government official seen publicly supporting police or organizing against the cartels ends up kidnapped. I wonder if there is an agreement where the "boogeyman" can be leaked to be the CIA, with quiet backdoor permission at the federal level but they get to publicly say "it's not us, we didn't give permission or condone". Win-win for bith sides.
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basicalme 9 hr ago +73
Around 35 candidates running for office in Mexico were assassinated in 2024 and 2025
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fergehtabodit 8 hr ago +12
How many Journalists?
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Narrow-Chef-4341 8 hr ago +33
Only all the ones they can find.
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baithammer 9 hr ago +47
>cartels ends up kidnapped. Not since the 80s, it's killed in public, as several Mayors have been bumped off that way.
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TheKappaOverlord 11 hr ago +86
its 100% BS. The mexican government without a doubt is knowledgeable of at least the general presence of the CIA of cleaning up their mess. Its a existential threat to Sheinbaum if she was to publicly go "yes, please donald help us. Narco's basically own the government. They'd just remove her if she started promoting partnership to remove the cartel. Why do you think shortly after taking office she started to adapt AMLO tier dogshit policies in regards to dealing with the cartels and their overall control over the country? Its also in general bad publicity to seem like you are friends with the US rn. So of course Sheinbaum would say "i dunno, i'll have a stern word for donald"
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baithammer 9 hr ago +19
No, as the Mexican government is chalk full of moles, the US is dealing with the Mexican army and Federal Police.
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ZealousidealState127 6 hr ago +7
Don't think they are much better. Remember operation fast and furious. One of the carteks was founded by ex military guys.
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baithammer 6 hr ago +9
Los Zeta and New Generation cartels had ex-special forces, which were operating separately from the regular military - those guys had training from various US agencies and SOCOM.
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Puzzleheaded_Sun7356 10 hr ago +10
why would it matter what she says when shes doing it? She's a target for the disruptions anyhow?
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levi070305 11 hr ago +30
She wouldn't necessarily be honest in this situation
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Rugby562 11 hr ago +12
Well yea, why would the CIA tell the cartel about the operations they're doing against them.
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captainbling 9 hr ago +7
It’s simple. The Mexican government has agreed to sometimes work with the cia. Everybody knows this. Now you tell the department involved not to tell cabinet anything other than what is specifically asked by cabinet. You do all that and get cabinet not knowing a cia agent was disguised which is exactly the way cabinet wants it.
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baithammer 9 hr ago +2
Not really, as no one in government can be trusted, it's the Mexican army that is dealing with the various US agencies and SOCOM.
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EdiblePeasant 8 hr ago +2
Can anyone work with the CIA if they wanted to? How does this go, in practice?
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BillieBlanus 9 hr ago +3
Assume they have a deal. Assume they have to pretend they don’t for political reasons. It’s easier
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zaevilbunny38 11 hr ago +10
They are, OSINT, has been talking about this since September of last year. The you tube channel Cappy Army has several videos on it. Most of the government has links to the cartel, so the people actually in the know are few. This has come to light as several CIA officers were photographed operating dressed as Mexican forces
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chiaboy 7 hr ago +5
No. Certainly not always. Mexican president reprimanded the US last week saying all agents must make themselves known to Mexican officials. It’s clear the (Trump) admin is working dark
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TelluricThread0 11 hr ago +40
A mayor in California was just ousted as a Chinese foreign agent. Eric Swalwell, a California congressman, was f****** a Chinese spy for years.
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ThePrideOfKrakow 12 hr ago +48
Look up the secret Chinese police stations across the US and abroad, it's happening right now.
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Shot-Discipline2026 6 hr ago +3
Wow. [https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3352677/us-trial-opens-over-alleged-chinese-secret-police-station-new-york](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3352677/us-trial-opens-over-alleged-chinese-secret-police-station-new-york)
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Sgt_Splattery_Pants 11 hr ago +19
You seen the Chinese secret police stations?
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LiteraCanna 10 hr ago +16
China has secret police in many countries, USA included.
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ConnorK5 8 hr ago +6
In a nice way if you think the Mexican government has ZERO knowledge of this you might be an idiot.
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Righteous_Iconoclast 11 hr ago +3
They are, it's just a slightly better kept secret at a much higher level of governmental.
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Ferndust 11 hr ago +8
Imagine Russia operating inside the USA with the sole intention of fighting crime. 
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ConnorK5 8 hr ago +4
Russians kicking down the doors of drug dealers around the country would be hilarious. Just batman style, drop em out outside the jail with their dope taped to em.
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SeparatePerformer703 12 hr ago +5
Only if POTUS and family didn’t get their cut
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offtodevnull 11 hr ago +1
Not every decision personally benefits the First Family, although it's hard to argue that isn't often the case.
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CommunitRagnar 12 hr ago +7
Rules for thee, not for me Note: i am not american i am not okay with CIA interventions in the Americas, they don't work for the great of anybody but themselves
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ConnorK5 8 hr ago +2
China does this within the US right now lol.
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poopmaster747 10 hr ago +4
They were working with Mexican officials at the state level, not the federal level. So it wasn't like Mexico didn't know, it was just not entirely known at the top level government.
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Cocky0 13 hr ago +63
Well ya see the real secret stuff is Top Secret™. This is from the Bottom Secret™ drawer.
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Wenuwayker 13 hr ago +16
I know a couple secret bottoms.
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GrowYourOwnOmaha 13 hr ago +23
This is “in a box in the bathroom at mar a lago” secret.
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YakResident_3069 12 hr ago +4
So this is a sequel to sicario?
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NinjaChemist 12 hr ago +13
It's a secret because they were only allegedly outed after a car crash 
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kinglouie493 11 hr ago +3
It's a secret from those who are supposed to oversee such things
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devi83 11 hr ago +7
So stupid lol. Hey you know about the Artemis mission right? I guess that means all the programming and engineering designs aren't secret, now, because you know their name? Same f****** concept. All you know is "the cia is there somewhere" which is about f****** shit all lmao.
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ReputationGullible14 13 hr ago +195
Aka Sicario
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MIT_Engineer 8 hr ago +76
Mom: "We have Sicario at home" Sicario at home: literally Sicario. Mom: "Told ya."
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PureLock33 5 hr ago +6
Thanks Mom! Happy Mother's Day!
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johnnycyberpunk 11 hr ago +45
Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Elon all told Trump about how cool that movie was and that he should do it in real life. This is the result.
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Plus-Camel7461 9 hr ago +23
Not defending trump but cia has been doing sketchy stuff in Mexico for way longer then his presidency. We’ve been f****** with Mexico since the 60’s really isn’t anything new.
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ataleoftwobrews 9 hr ago +12
Fwiw it is a cool movie....
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stormy83 8 hr ago +3
Hope they haven't seen Lioness season 2 😐
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ACompletelyLostCause 14 hr ago +1198
Funny how the CIA can penetrate & neutralise the deepest & most hidden terrorist groups, but can never actually do anything about cartels or drug supply. It's almost as if.... they aren't really trying.
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Ba-Na-Na-s 13 hr ago +537
Probably just killing competing dealers to make sure they stay in control of the market, but this is the headline.
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DeliverySoggy2700 13 hr ago +195
They need importation. This was always a well-known fact. They have been trading guns for drugs for 50 years. Where do you think they get all their paramilitary supplies? The USA gets intelligence, arm sales, and drug importation to do other devious things which I could go on for an entire essay for. It’s all working as designed.
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MidnightMillennium 13 hr ago +50
Yeah not to mention how much both economies would be destabilized if the drugs and guns stopped flowing. And all the politicians and other officials that benefit either directly or indirectly from the situation.
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DeliverySoggy2700 13 hr ago +33
You know. That’s actually correct. I didn’t think about it that way before, but it would definitely be an entire shock not only to Mexico and the USA economy, but probably would have a ripple effect on the entire world. This drug trade for arms is so ingrained into our current society that purging it would be the same as trying to ban alcohol. It is just too well established in our economies that disrupting it would have ramifications The initial goal was disruption, but I agree with you that it evolved into an economical symbiosis
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MidnightMillennium 12 hr ago +19
There's some channels on YouTube that go over the history and break down the relationship of both countries and the modern drug/gun trade, it's pretty interesting
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Ambitious_Wolf_3116 8 hr ago +5
It's like how amado carillo fuentes threatened to pull his billions from mexican banks that'd cause an economic crisis when the gov was trying to crack down on cartels or him. That's how ingrained it is. A drug dealer can hold a country hostage!
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i_am_voldemort 11 hr ago +3
I mean that was the plot of Sicario
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shidncome 9 hr ago +2
This is the reality of almost every single "big bust" that makes the news.
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Awkward_Face_3761 13 hr ago +152
it's hilarious that people actually think it's even remotely possible to "stop" the drug trade. it's a never ending game of whack-a-mole and for every little bust you read about, hundreds, thousands of shipments make it through clean. the drug war is and always will be a miserable, heinous failure. legalize, tax, regulate. it'll never happen but it's the only possible way to put an end to narco states in the americas.
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Extension-Toe-7027 9 hr ago +37
Except for the tax part that is what Portugal did 20 year ago we decriminalized possession of everything under the sun and the first it achieved was a 50% drop in HIV and od's with no increase in use. The second thing it achieved is people lighting up everywhere and still not even that is more used. I tell you the USA was not happy in the UN, we are small enough to fly under the radar and they stopped caring and at least for us is working.
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EntityLtdCo 12 hr ago +6
And right you are! Now, how do we create a new paradigm of legalized sales from American companies, with enormous tax revenue for social programs?
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pte_omark 13 hr ago -2
Maybe if you simply start by addressing the root causes of the ever worsening drug epidemic in the US the cartels would shrivel and die. The cause of the cartels is the demand for drugs from the US, it's the guns and money from the US that fund and support them. Take away demand and they'll stop supplying 
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Awkward_Face_3761 13 hr ago +83
oooook. the word "simply" in your first sentence is doing some extreme heavy lifting. there is absolutely nothing you can do about people wanting to use drugs. human beings have been using mind altering substances since prehistory. escapism, pain relief, recreation, spiritual exploration.... i could make a long list of reasons people use drugs. you're never, ever going to "simply start by addressing root causes". if drugs were regulated and people could have access to unlaced drugs in a perfectly known dose, you'd knock down overdoses by easily 75%. the trade could be above board, which would eliminate the illegal narco trafficking industry overnight, saving countless lives. then you tax it, adding billions to the GDP, and use that money for education and drug treatment. most people don't want to be drug addicts. if there were treatment options and they didn't have felonies on their record for drug use, they'd have way easier pathways back into productive lives. also, many people are perfectly capable of using drugs recreationally and leading healthy lives. i should be able to do what the f*** i want in the privacy of my home, provided i'm not harming others. the drug war is stupid. i realize that what i'm saying will never happen.... but it's the only actual way things are ever going to get better.
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USA_A-OK 5 hr ago +3
I'd also add: most people who use drugs are not addicts.
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GoodIdea321 13 hr ago +2
What you are saying seems like the only solution, undercutting it at the end doesn't help persuade anyone though.
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EntityLtdCo 12 hr ago +3
Hey, why aren't YOU running for office? We need more of you placed where it counts.
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Ulti 8 hr ago +3
Because saying this to the people in charge gets you laughed out of the room *and*/or worse, despite this all making sense.
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Ok-Echidna5936 11 hr ago +5
Nope. They’ve diversified their businesses to include agriculture, trafficking ie human, sex, and organ, as well as energy siphoning. Their theft of illegal oil alone is almost as lucrative as their drug business. It’s far too gone to rely on ending demand
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Spreadsheets_LynLake 12 hr ago +11
Splitting hairs here, but cartels will acquire guns regardless.  True that US retail is a readily convenient source, but cartels aren't getting grenades, RPG's or anything high explosive from US retail sources.   Sad that "war on drugs" has become such a blunt instrument for political goals... steady rates of drug use across all racial demographics, yet unequal prison sentences & incarceration rates.  The game is rigged & actually improving people's lives is "woke".
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ProfessionalHefty349 12 hr ago +14
How do you address the root cause of *checks notes* drugs are awesome?
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Bald_Jesus 10 hr ago +3
It's very awesome until it's not
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ProfessionalHefty349 10 hr ago +5
Very true
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ThatCakeIsDone 13 hr ago +4
There will always be demand for mind altering substances
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EntityLtdCo 12 hr ago +3
Ha ha! You will never stop demand, have you never heard of prohibition? It. Never. Works. Over a century of failed drug policy has brought us here. Only by amending or policies can we stop crime and create a safer country.
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Tweezot 11 hr ago +10
The CIA is not a law enforcement organization
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American_PissAnt 13 hr ago +11
They support some cartels against other cartels. CIA don’t care about drugs coming to America, in fact they will even help smuggle them
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Agreeable_Addition48 13 hr ago +6
killing a market is much harder than you think, if people want something capitalism will find a way.
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Ghede 10 hr ago +3
They can't even penetrate and neutralise the deepest and most hidden terrorist groups. FFS it took them 10 years to kill Bin Laden, with every resource available devoted to finding him, and AL QAEDA IS STILL AROUND AND OPERATING. Their competence and efficacy is WAY overblown by copaganda.
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Eelysanio 10 hr ago +6
It’s almost as if dismantling a $100 billion decentralized shadow economy deeply embedded in a neighboring country’s infrastructure is slightly more complex than dropping a drone on a dozen guys in a Syrian cave. But sure, let's stick to the 1980s Hollywood conspiracy tropes. They're definitely easier to type out.
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LoneRonin 13 hr ago +6
Or more like they're simply addressing the symptoms and not the root cause. Maybe build a happier, kinder, more community-oriented USA that respects the rights of their citizens, so they can get treatment for their addictions and are less likely to turn to drugs to escape their despair in the first place.
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ThatCakeIsDone 13 hr ago +12
Plenty of happy, kind, community oriented folks get addicted to drugs
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calgarspimphand 13 hr ago +5
You're totally right and it's important to remember that. But they said "less likely" to get addicted. The truth is nothing anyone says here is ever going to be a silver bullet solution. People are just gonna do drugs. But if you can make it so drugs are not a black market, and fewer people feel the need to do dangerous ones, and the ones who do dangerous ones get help and not prison time, then you are at least minimizing the harm.
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ThatCakeIsDone 12 hr ago +3
Totally agreed. But my opinion is that a sensible regulatory framework that doesn't destroy people's lives when they get caught using will lead to your other points, including better communities, and reduced rates of abuse
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Arcamorge 13 hr ago +3
I think having a unified cartel reduces violence, so blindly decapitating cartels without a way to end the systems and incentives that make them so profitable is counterproductive.
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ACompletelyLostCause 13 hr ago +3
As a short term measure that works, but it ends up corrupting the intelligence officers/agency. The intelligence community is morally murky enough that it's easy to lose sight of the line you're not meant to cross.
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marshaul 10 hr ago
When did the CIA ever penetrate and neutralize anything? They really aren't THAT competent. They do ok, sometimes...
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Actaeon_II 11 hr ago +141
Didn’t the cia spend decades working *with* the cartels?
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R3quiemdream 9 hr ago +34
The literally trained some of them, los Zetas for example.
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johnnycyberpunk 11 hr ago +69
Helping them formulate their products, avoid competition, build small armies, train in weapons and tactics, develop networks of informants and sources, etc. Yeah.
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stormy83 8 hr ago +6
That's usually how destabilizing forces gain power
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TheDarkHelmet1985 13 hr ago +177
The fact this is even a conversation shows just how far Americans have lost the plot. 30 years ago, an affair nearly ended a presidency. The amount of stuff these people get away with blows me away.
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Caesarea_G 12 hr ago +55
And less than forty years ago the US had just invaded Panama...
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frontfrontdowndown 9 hr ago +22
We also sold arms to Iran violating our own embargo and turned around and used the proceeds to provide funds without congressional authorization to the Contras in Nicaragua.
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_CleverNameGoesHere_ 10 hr ago +3
Some things never change.
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Spiritual-Matters 9 hr ago +15
Taking action against drug cartels is the least controversial thing he’s done
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SinistralGuy 8 hr ago +7
More than 30 years ago Americans were already funding the Taliban and destabilizing the Middle East. Americans lost the plot a long time ago bud
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MIT_Engineer 8 hr ago +10
Do Americans actually oppose the CIA fighting cartels though? I'm not sure what the scandal is.
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Beginning_Ad_6616 12 hr ago +32
Anyone else remember the war on drugs being expensive and not working well because I do.
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throwawaythisacc1938 6 hr ago +4
oh so anti-trust activities are ok if its to break up mexican conglomerates but not US ones....
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CompleteSavings6307 13 hr ago +13
I mean wasn't this part of the plot in sicario?
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Sinaaaa 7 hr ago +3
Let's assume they are really competent at James Bond-like spy stuff, do you really want 100 James Bonds + logistics against the Cartels? I would think that is not the answer. Anyway I don't get, what are they even trying to do?
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cat4hurricane 9 hr ago +10
Considering that *most* if not *all* cartels have succession plans on succession plans, how is that *supposed* to work? Even if you cut off the head of one or two cartels, or go down a few lines in the hierarchy, they're like hydras, they can always pop back up *eventually*. If one cartel truly dies out, which it probably *won't* because they're huge and *so* embedded in the local/state governments of Mexico, then another just takes its place, absorbs most of the old members, or finishes the job and continues on. For every single one they damage, there are contingency plans in place or others waiting in the wings to grab outstanding supplies. Seriously, the cartels are *so* big that it's a shadow government in itself, and the CIA has *history* working *with* and *supplying* these cartels. If it isn't the CIA working with them, it's the DEA; if it's not the DEA, it's ATF supplying weapons. And that's just what's been *declassified* or spoken with with former members under anonymity. God only f****** knows what the government's been doing more recently. We're *really* expecting the agency that is *known* to f*** up regime changes like it's their day job to do this in a clean manner? How many times have they tried to make the world a better place and instead wreck absolute *havoc* on whatever country they set their sights on? The CIA is *known* destabilizers; if anything, they'll make the cartels even *worse* and fuel hatred of America, just like they have in multiple other countries before it. I don't trust this as far as I can see it.
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bahhumbud 8 hr ago +3
Hell it’s just as likely the US is doing the same thing they did under Giuliani in newyork against the Italian crime syndicates or “mafia.” Where the government was used by a bunch of criminals to take out their opposition so another crime syndicate could step in.
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Twat_Features 6 hr ago +4
Why do you use italics so much? So odd to read.
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crashorbit 14 hr ago +43
Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.
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blackadder1620 14 hr ago +91
it does work. people either don't use enough of it or they apply it to the wrong problems. cartels deal with violence daily, it's not a big deal to them. CIA knocks off the ceo of the private equity firm that gutted red lobster, bankrupted it. that might work. killing off cartel members without doing anything about how they came to be in the first place. that's structural reorganization, stacking the deck for the other cartels.
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kalas_malarious 11 hr ago +5
Wait, are you saying offing the guy at the top isn't regime level change? I need to post on signal!
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backfilled 12 hr ago +13
> However, arrests and killings of cartel leaders caused cartels to splinter into smaller, more violent factions, escalating turf wars and contributing to rising homicide rates nationwide.[\[53\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-progress-73)[\[54\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-L2QWa-74)[\[55\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-HzeyQ-75) By the end of Calderón's administration in 2012, the official death toll of the Mexican drug war was at least 60,000.[\[56\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-washingtonpost.com-76) Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not counting 27,000 missing.[\[57\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-JTx4M-77)[\[58\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war#cite_note-F575R-78) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war Nothing will really change as long as the US and Mexico keep using the same approach they've relied on for the past 20 years. On the US side, drug distribution and consumption within its own borders still hasn't been addressed. And on the Mexican side, strengthening local police forces and bringing them up to federal standards, along with reforms and more personnel for prosecutors and the judiciary, are all still pending.
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Agreeable_Idea 13 hr ago +15
Drugs is undefeated throughout human history.
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Lostinthestarscape 13 hr ago +14
People even point to Singapore, but they still incarcerated about 5000 people a year despite it being an insane sentence AND family members and community friends are way less likely to turn you in because they don't want you to go to jail for a decade over a joint. This ignores the "hidden" drug use of inhalents, gas huffing, etc. That goes on in all "dry" communities.
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2centpiece 12 hr ago +11
I'd like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on srugs
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FairLawnBoy 10 hr ago +5
The War on Shrugs is out of hand
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50SPFGANG 13 hr ago +11
Tell that to Singapore. The f*** you gonna do lol talk nicely to the cartel? Guess how we nearly eradicated isis? v i o l e n c e 
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Skibidibum69 9 hr ago +2
Violence does or doesn’t work, but it usually does lol
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MeMay0 13 hr ago -3
yea better do nothing and let them be drug lords and create chaos all around them. Or maybe just ask them nicely to stop?
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aztec_agarthan 12 hr ago +5
Positive intervention of the drug trade is very possible. We've seen it done very successfully in East Asia, for example. But it is difficult, and thus requires a competence and good faith that our institutions simply don't have. The CIA have and continue to use drug dealers as one of their consistent pillars of support. From Marseille in post-war France, Vietnamese and Hmong allies during the Indo-Chinese wars, operation Condor across South America, Iran-Contra in Central America, apartheid South Africa's Project Coast's Quaalude and designer drugs, Haiti's Cannibal Army and FRAPH, the KLA in Kosovo, the Afghan Mujihadeen and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the CIA and State Department consistently prop up drug traffickers to further their own aims. And as long as the US remains such an economic powerhouse those drugs will inevitably end up in the US. And this is by no means old Cold-War era policy. Miami remains a massive center of both drug trafficking and political drug lobbying, and now little Narco Rubio is Secretary of State. Rubio is constantly styming investigations into Álvaro Uribe, who was the former President of Colombia. US intelligence described Uribe in a dossier listing the world's most prominent drug traffickers as a "close personal friend of Escobar" who "worked for the Medellín Cartel." Rubio was somehow unmentioned in Trump's pardon of JOH, the former president of Honduras convicted of trafficking 400 tons of coke into the US. But Rubio and Bibi were the two biggest worms in Trump's ear lobbying for the pardon. And of course Rubio has been very enthusiastic about the US' new security alliance with president Noboa of Ecuador. Nobody cares that Noboa's company just got caught shipping 400 lbs of coke into Croatia. If we are interrupting drug trafficking in LATAM, only an idiot would think it is to stop trafficking. It is almost certainly targeting certain drug trafficking operations in order to bolster other groups more favorable to US interests.
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UnStricken 13 hr ago +13
You really believe the same agency that helped initiate the crack epidemic in this country is trying to STOP the drug lords?
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clone162 13 hr ago +4
Maybe legalize drugs and squeeze them out naturally
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Ok-Echidna5936 11 hr ago +2
They’ve expanded into other businesses already. Including energy theft which rivals their drug business. It’s beyond late for that approach
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kelryngrey 7 hr ago +5
America is so incapable of not snorting, smoking, or injecting everything under the sun that the government has to turn to black ops kill raids to decrease the availability of this shit.
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KaiDaiz 13 hr ago +12
irl Ghost Recon Wildlands
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GMHGeorge 12 hr ago +8
Clear and Present Danger was published in 1989
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ScatteredSignal 13 hr ago +6
Well, no. The 'good' guys are importing drugs here too.
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Elathan-Izayoi 12 hr ago +7
When the Epstein files?
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Tokyo-MontanaExpress 9 hr ago +6
Apparently, an openly operating wealthy pedophile ring is too boring for our CIA. 
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driver_dan_party_van 9 hr ago +2
Why shut down your weekend gig for accolades at your day job?
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Deep_Fried_Bussy 10 hr ago +8
"secret war" the CIA is just eliminating there opps
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oneusualsuspect 10 hr ago +2
Next edition of Narcos Mexico will be a lot better.
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sdcinerama 9 hr ago +2
This was the plot of Clear and Present Danger. Spoiler: it didn't work in either the book or the movie.
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localstyle808 7 hr ago +2
Nearly 600,000 Americans died in the past 10 years from opioid overdoses. Sadly to compare (but not compare), about 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam over 10 years. Two different versions of sick to my stomach in sadness.
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foo_fight3r 6 hr ago +2
USA is already attacking Mexico via the CIA
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seemerock 4 hr ago +1
2 CIA officers were killed a couple weeks ago in a car crash after they dismantled a drug lab. Cartels have intel too and the car crash was no accident.
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Sirgolfs 3 hr ago +1
Lmao we’re fighting the cartel TOO?! Jesus Donald. We don’t forget that easy.
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Kevinsean_ 12 hr ago +5
CIA mad that China is getting all laundered money
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Lhamo55 9 hr ago +2
CIA as an agency couldn’t care less. They’re mercenaries for whomever in DC sets and controls the current agenda. And this administration (and its puppet masters) is probably the worst in US history to demand allegiance from an agency they have no respect for or understanding of its culture (ditto for the armed forces).
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baithammer 9 hr ago +3
They're trying to replace the CIA and DIA with loyalist contractors, just like they're working with private intelligence companies to replace NSA and the rest.
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HashtagDadWatts 12 hr ago +8
And MAGA exclaimed: “More new wars! More new wars!”
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TwoBionicknees 11 hr ago +4
the cia's 'war' is a bunch of CIA agents in the jungle with the cartel, counting stacks of money going "one for you, one for me, one for you, one for me, hey Juan, give me another bump I'm getting tired".
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JeanClaudeMonet 13 hr ago +7
Good. Cartels are killing land owners to take for their own. Mexican army was told to stand down while they cartels are going on a killing spree.
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SmallFatHands 11 hr ago -3
My brother in Christ a deaf abuelita in México could tell you the CIA are the ones that support the cartels it's a f****** open secret.
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kalas_malarious 11 hr ago +8
What's the play? Like, what benefit is this to the CIA?
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Ok-Echidna5936 10 hr ago +9
Nothing. Maybe back in the Cold War or even during the Kiki Camarena days I could see why the CIA was moving drugs around to meddle for American interests. But today the narco business absolutely does not benefit the CIA/ US government whatsoever. At least from what I understand. If anything, the CIA has been one of the major sources in dismantling them recently
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baithammer 9 hr ago +4
Iran Contra Affair revealed the play, namely getting off the books funding for their operations.
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mavalos88 10 hr ago +2
CIA denied this a few hours ago
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baithammer 9 hr ago +3
CIA isn't the only ones working in Mexico, they even have non-CIA contractors doing odd jobs there.
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CommunitRagnar 10 hr ago +3
That means it's probably true
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Maleficent-Ask8450 8 hr ago +3
Number one - the CIA is NOT gonna release that shit! give me a break number two- how does the person who wrote this even know?..🤔
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DeputyDipshit619 13 hr ago +6
"C'mon, our fuckin' home was built on the foundation of bloody throats The hungry stolen of they souls, of course this country's runnin' coke I took a stunted oath to hush the ones who know The CIA conducts the flow of these young hustlers who lust for dough" -Immortal Technique They're just taking out the competition, business as usual.
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Ill-Organization-719 7 hr ago +2
Drug cartel vs drug cartel 
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Daily_Dose_42069 12 hr ago +2
CIA begins killing competition in drug smuggling business. Fixed.
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capnfoo 10 hr ago +1
Attacking the guys who get billions of dollars per year to spend on weapons and influence and doing it on their home turf sounds pretty silly.
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