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by razakel 3498 days ago
>While it sounds good, it's pretty bullshit to say the war on drugs is about financing dictators.

You're missing the point. Drug sales can be monopolized by the powers that be to generate off-the-books revenue streams. This can then finance any questionable activity they'd prefer not to be held accountable for.

This exact scenario has happened before - see the Iran-Contra affair.

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While it might have happened. It doesn't need to anymore. Seeing as how Billions of dollars can just up and disappear from the DoD's accounting books and noone has been held accountable.