[chepaslaaa]

>creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.

The state is balls deep in those cartels. Go read about Freeway Rick Ross and Afghanistan poppy fields for prime examples. It's all part of the military industrial complex, Peter Dale Scott has great books on the matter.

[acqq]

The books of the mentioned author on that topic:

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742525221/drugs-oil-and-war-the-...

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742555952/american-war-machine-d...

Author's page:

https://www.peterdalescott.net/q/