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The "War on Terror" and "The War on Drugs" are both fraudulent, and they are both related. In a classic example of "reverse projection," the War on Terror" is literally a "War for Terror", and the "War on Drugs" is literally a "War for Drugs".
Terror, coupled with the illegal trade in narcotics, particularly heroin, is enabling the orchestration, and funding, of illegal warfare which serves the interests of an international oligarch class as it destroys humanity.
The barbarity of the military operations conducted by the West is beyond the imagination of most domestic audiences, even when details are publicized.
Broadly speaking, we can decode the 9/11 terror wars using a simple formula: Problem + Reaction = Solution.
NATO warmongers engineer or exploit problems to create reactions, with a view to creating previously planned solutions. Typically, problems (i.e. 9/11 crimes) serve to engineer public consent (reaction) for illegal invasions (solution).
The "end-game" also contradicts publically stated goals. Evidence demonstrates that the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, as well as the war in Ukraine, were launched and prosecuted with a view to destroy each country through invasion, occupation, plunder, and to establish military footholds. The popular notion that the wars are being prosecuted for humanitarian purposes is absolutely ridiculous.
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, for example, drug-trafficking warlords such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar were used to create extremist "jihadist" armies (mujahideen) to destroy the Soviet-protected socialist republic. The long-standing CIA-terror group alliance, which pre-dates the Afghanistan war, continues to be empowered by profits from illegal drug trafficking: According to U.S sources, the production of opium (which is eventually processed into heroin) has increased "40-fold" since the initial invasion of Afghanistan.
So, the invasion destroyed a secular, socialist government and filled the vacuum with extremist drug-trafficking terrorist warlords. But imperialists gained a military foothold in the country.
Iraq
We all know now that the fraudulent "Weapons of Mass Destruction" pretext was used for the criminal invasion of Iraq. The engineered problem was followed by mixed reactions from a less gullible public, but the invasion (solution), was launched (on the heels of genocidal sanctions) anyways.
Joe Quinn reports that in this invasion, US Death Squads manufactured a civil war to divert attention from the real culprits: the occupiers. A 10,000 strong "Shia militia" under US command was used to terrorize the population and to destroy Iraqi grass-roots resistance. Often, the terrorists bomb civilian targets and falsely blame innocent groups -- false flag tactics -- which in turn create engineered friction and retaliation. Black propaganda operations are a CIA specialty. Consequently, Iraq is now an unstable terrorist quagmire, whereas before the invasion it was a modern, well-developed country free of any identifiable terror groups.
Libya
The NATO invasion of Libya, previously the wealthiest country in Africa, was also a product of repeated Western lies, and now, it too, is a hotbed of terrorism, vice, and drug trafficking. Erin Banco reports in "Drug And Human Trafficking In 'Lawless' Libya Is Funding ISIS" that the West's "lack of foresight has enabled different groups of fighters to traffic a continuous supply of arms, drugs and people across Libya's borders, helping to bankroll some of the world's most violent terrorists."
Syria
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