Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?(en.unav.edu)
11 pointsby Stevvo2 hours ago6 comments
  • rekttrader20 minutes ago
    Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.
  • Bender42 minutes ago
    The primary flows of fent into the USA are from Mexico and China [1]. India is emerging as a source for finished fentanyl powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals.

    [1] - https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...

  • d1l42 minutes ago
    Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.
  • throw875an hour ago
    They have never forgotten opium wars
  • 486sx33an hour ago
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  • alephnerd2 hours ago
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    • greenavocadoan hour ago
      > documented history of my college classmates whose parents not afford their tuition on their civil servant salaries helps

      What?

      • exabrial42 minutes ago
        I'm so confused as well
    • bigyabai2 hours ago
      > Similar threat actors have been active on HN for sometime as well now

      ...dealing fentanyl?

      • alephnerd2 hours ago
        Same threat actors associated with the same regional intel organization offices. Certain but plenty of countries conduct these operations in a subnational and public-private manner, but a certain nuclear power has done so intimately to degree that most others didn't.

        Also the fact that you reply to me on multiple occasions within 5 minutes is intruiging, as it is drastically anomalous.

        Khayr, you aren't the only account like that.

        • greenavocadoan hour ago
          > Also the fact that you reply to me on multiple occasions within 5 minutes is intruiging, as it is drastically anomalous.

          Don't expose all the low hanging fruit for your heuristics

          • BoredPositronan hour ago
            It's wild. Accounts drop genuinely insightful takes on niche threads and submit a lot of interesting topics, you barely register them, then one random thread reveals they're absolutely batshit crazy. That's why I still love the web.
            • unmole3 minutes ago
              > Accounts drop genuinely insightful takes on niche threads

              I used to think the same until I read multiple completely incorrect takes about topics that I actually know about and I realised they were making up plausible sounding nonsense. I started disregarding or just ignoring their comments altogether, counter Gell-Mann amnesia.

              I still can't tell whether this is continued LARPing or just a tenuous grasp on reality.