[not_real_acct]

I imagine this had a huge impact on the drug trade too:

In the 1980s, the US and the USSR were fighting numerous proxy wars in countries like Nicaragua.

When the USSR collapsed, you had thousands of trained soldiers who stopped receiving a paycheck. If you've spent the last ten years fighting in a war, you're not just going to put down the AK47 and go work on a farm.

[baud147258]

Regarding Irak, the US shut down the army, putting thousands of trained soldiers out of a job