Taken from JRE #1511 w/Oliver Stone: https://youtu.be/QOrOYUxzX3o
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Taken from JRE #1511 w/Oliver Stone: https://youtu.be/QOrOYUxzX3o
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My cousin was a Sargent in the marines. He did 2 terms in Afghanistan. He told me that the first term he did, his squad’s job was to protect marijuana fields. His second term, their job was to protect poppy fields. They protected the poppies/marijuana because the Taliban would destroy them. Imagine putting your life on the line to protect drugs that are considered ILLEGAL in America smh. This made my cousin second guess his career in the military & he chose not to return after his time in the military was up.
Opiates/heroin makes up 80% of Afghanistan's total economy. When we asked why we couldn't just burn the fields to stop the funding to the Taliban, they told us it would make the entire country collapse.
This is a revealing and historically rich conversation. The black market and the "Master Sergeants making a buck on the side" is important to my research. Oliver Stone is talking about the Mafias and syndicates in Saigon along with the French Mafia during the 1960's in Vietnam.
Before Vietnam got the car, they operated on the rickshaw. The Vietnamese has a municipal licensing system for rickshaw drivers and everything. We have records of how the French were partying and all the problems of drugs and prostitution in the 1930's. It was a playground of corruption in Vietnam. When the Americans arrived, cars were the dominant means of travel, the rickshaws became something people moved vegetables in. The Vietnamese opium cultivators used the rickshaw to move the raw opium and heroin in broad daylight with the American Army walking in the opposite direction. Sometimes those rickshaws had guns caches on the way to the enemy.
I believe that some of the American MIA's were "Master Sergeant" types who crossed the line and were dealing heroin. The American government could not go where they went missing. They caught Colonels in USAF with fighter jets loaded with heroin in the late 60's. Drug dealing had no lines by this point. Everyone was dealing with everyone. You had Chinese Communists, Chiang Kai-shek, the Mandarin Chinese that settled in Vietnam after the 1st & 2nd Opium Wars. That history is all but gone, but extremely significant. The Mandarins in Vietnam were behind the scenes with the French Mafia since colonialism. The Vietnamese who were with the French Mafia before the Americans arrived continued their alliances after the Americans arrived. They started dealing with the Americans more directly when some of the French started to leave in 1968.
Santo Trafficante Jr. was with the French since 1954 and he was one of the only mafia businesses who remained after 1968. I'm sure a few French Dons made it past 1968.
The anti-communist propaganda for the Vietnam War was something many believed in. JFK believed in it wholeheartedly. It turns out the Vietnam War, in all reality, was the unfolding of colonialism to the modern economic system and much more a 3rd Opium War than a war against communism.
I'd like to know more about that black market and who participated in it. Did Oliver see any French Don types in Vietnam? People looking like the French Businessman in "The Deer Hunter". The one who coaxes Chris Walken's character to play the suicide game. Those French Mafia guys are of great interest to me.
DEA Needs to be done away with. Like yesterday.
Joe this is not crazy America is the world's herion cocaine meth all drugs come from the most corrupt government in the world the war should be on the CIA dea not on drugs your killing the world
…. drugs are not