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...So you pick up a history book to figure out US's angle

From Peter Dale Scotts: American War Machine-Deep Politics, The Cia and the Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan

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TL:DR the US turned Burma-Laos and Thailand into a heroin growing triangle (The Golden Triangle) much like they did with the Mafia in Sicily and Marseilles.

The Drug traffickers and drug money became a huge way of CIA to implant bourgeois ideology and suppress communists and the growing popularity of the PRC. They even used ex-Nazis as agents for drug smuggling. It also gave US unfettered access to Myanmars tungsten reserves.

This enitre coalition was directed at China of course.

  • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    It seems ridiculous, but something about the protests seem off to me. They have the exact same aesthetics and similar tactics to the HK protests, and everyone seems way too well coordinated and equipped. Every time the US gets involved in a "pro democracy" protest they tend to adopt the same weird, reddity, westernized aesthetic (they're holding up the Hunger Games three-finger salutes FFS). It turns into a bunch of black-shirted young people holding up quotable signs in perfect English, no matter what country they're in. And I'm not saying Thailand's government is worth supporting - they're an absolute monarchy and the king is a total sleazebag - but they seem to have pretty normalized relations with China...

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Sometimes this is different in countries with American influence or a large English speaking population, but when a protest's demands are "democracy" without ideology and their aesthetic appeals to western audiences, it's always a reason to at least be skeptical.

        Like, remember when Overwatch characters were going to save Hong Kong :agony-limitless:

      • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Wait they went ML? I actually hadnt heard about that. I guess the last few pro democracy protests ive seen have just put a bad taste in my mouth but I'd be interested to learn more

          • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Lottt of CIA fronts here comrade

            https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thailand-2019/

              • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                The “Thai Poor Act” is not the fucking “Assembly of the Poor”

                So In Land Destroyers article he says it's not the same name but he found a youtube channel with a similar name. So he puts a question mark over that one.

                So you've "debunked" 1 out of the 3 organistations 2 of which are on NED/CIAs website

                you disengenous right wing shit

                Wew lad. Yup I'm right wing forehead

                  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    And iLAW gets most of its money from outside the NED.

                    Well I'm glad to hear ILAW is only partially funded by :cia: lol