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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.

    • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      So, why play dumb? It just seems unnecessarily rude if you know the reason they responded.

      • astigmatic [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I don’t get why you think it’s a response at all when the premise is already a part of my comment.

        It is literally what my post was cultivated on! The only reason it makes sense to begin with!

        • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          NED has money in pretty much everything in the third world, whether they’re direct assets or just vague humanitarianism ... They get NED funding. It’s not a CIA regime change operation.

          Your comment made it sound like these two types of NED operations were distinct from one another. The response highlighted that these are not distinct. It is two features of the same operation.

          I found that important to highlight because it matches with the revolving door of state agents & humanitarian operations in my city.

          It's not a dig at you or anything, but the clarification was helpful.

          • astigmatic [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah I mean that’s fine, we have different reads on this and maybe I’m not expressing myself very well. To be clear I do not think most of the organizations where NED has money are “NED operations” in and of themselves. They opportunistically and parasitically extends their claws everywhere, yeah, but receiving some NED money (note: some money, not being entirely funded that way) in itself doesn’t tell me that the organization is what the CIA needs them to be.

            Whether that’s the case with this specific Thai group, I have no idea, I had never heard of them before this thread and I think it’s fine to be suspicious.

        • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I took your initial comment in good faith, and I told you why I thought their comment was helpful. You decided to double-down on being an ass for some reason.