US Senate leader Schumer wants to sanction China over fentanyl
reuters.com
For context more than 106,000 US citizens died of drug overdoses in 2021, and more than 109,000 in 2022 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm
How about we start at home like, I dunno, actually punishing the people responsible for the opioid epidemic (Purdue, the Sacklers, etc.)
True, and let's not forget, freeing all the people that just did drugs rather then, well selling or distributing.
Pfft and get rid of legal in-the-constitution slavery and harm for-profit prison's income? No way!
Massachusetts has entered the chat.
Because the Sacklers pay our politicians.
Also because we totally won when the Sacklers’ business entities had to pay a fine but left the people themselves…still rich beyond reason and at liberty.
I’ll point out the sacklers aren’t the ones using state banks to launder cartel money so they can import more fentanyl precursors
Congress definitely has a hard on for war with China but the left ignores this stuff at our own peril
https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-money-laundering
The right tenor is about fighting corruption and organized crime with financial reform, and sanctions relating to money laundering and manufacture is exactly that
But how else do you keep your donors happy and drive your country to war with China?
I personally feel that we should do nothing. maintaining the status quo in regards to international trade is far more crucial than some junkies ODing, regardless of which cartel is importing the drugs
I think that sometimes but a lot of opioid addicts started as patients receiving legitimate treatment for things such as car crashes and back injuries with poor off-ramping practices
that may be the case, but you know the saying about omelets and cracked eggs? it applies here
Any excuse to inch us closer to war with China
Ding, ding ding
That war machine isn't gonna fuel itself! We need one or two big ones soon to be on track to mimic the 20th century in every way!
Please no more provocations, I don't want an all out war between America and China in my lifetime.
I severly doubt China would be able to get the US to treat it like an all out war. Remember China struggles to influence its neighbors militarily, the US can run a war in a land locked and very hostile nation for twenty fucking years. The fact of the matter is that a war between the US and China would probably resemble a seal clubing more than anything else, unless China does the funny and makes my username weirdly relevant.