How the US Failed to Take Down Narco-terrorism | The War on Drugs

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  • Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
  • Hezbollah is a Lebanese terrorist organisation and the political party responsible for deadly attacks all over the world. This is the story of how they became major players not just in the Middle East hash trade, but in the global cocaine and amphetamine business - trafficking tons of drugs across the world, and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for South American cartels.
    Even murkier is how a major DEA investigation into these activities was allegedly undermined by the CIA and the White House - leading agents from different agencies to all end up accusing each other of endangering national security.
    00:00 Intro
    01:35 Beqaa Valley Weed
    04:48 Trafficking Captagon
    06:41 “This Was Some of the Biggest Drug Trafficking We’ve Ever Seen in the World”
    08:23 Operation Cassandra
    09:34 The Iran Nuclear Deal
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  • @VICE
    @VICE  7 місяців тому +33

    ¿Quieres ver el video en español? Haz clic en el botón de configuración para cambiar la pista de audio.
    Want to watch this in Spanish? Head over to the settings button to change the audio track.

    • @brucelee4996
      @brucelee4996 7 місяців тому

      Vice: Where's Jaime Clifton been?
      I haven't seen one of his 'War On Drugs,' videos - in a while.
      Please don't get rid of this series.

    • @Stinky_Couch_Pickle
      @Stinky_Couch_Pickle 7 місяців тому

      noo.. I stay.

    • @alexissalas2880
      @alexissalas2880 7 місяців тому

      Second fastest growing language. Nice!

    • @Stinky_Couch_Pickle
      @Stinky_Couch_Pickle 7 місяців тому

      @@alexissalas2880 Huh? you must be one of the intelligent Citizens of the USA.

    • @user-yr7xi1om3h
      @user-yr7xi1om3h 6 місяців тому

      ​@@alexissalas2880there are more people that speak spanish than english homie 😂

  • @darkersideofthemoon8657
    @darkersideofthemoon8657 11 місяців тому +243

    "We would like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs"

    • @mahkuntizitchy2083
      @mahkuntizitchy2083 11 місяців тому +6

      Ok, CONGRATULATIONS

    • @djoh615893
      @djoh615893 10 місяців тому +3

      I told that to a Colombian and the look I got was horror and bewilderment. That joke hits differently there I guess

    • @sn1ffy85
      @sn1ffy85 9 місяців тому

      Oh I wonder where you stole that from??!!

    • @mahkuntizitchy2083
      @mahkuntizitchy2083 9 місяців тому

      @@sn1ffy85 it's not called "stealing" you idiot, it's called "re-posting". People quote other people all the time, if it upsets you go to the cooking channel.

    • @EmmaDeFazio5938
      @EmmaDeFazio5938 9 місяців тому

      Why did the war on drugs start

  • @riddlerecsful
    @riddlerecsful 11 місяців тому +277

    "trafficking drugs to non believers is ok" I love the mental gymnastics involved here

    • @greatexpectations6577
      @greatexpectations6577 11 місяців тому

      Islam allows any and all activities that can potentially weaken or destroy groups that which it considers enemy or rival. In Islam, there is no moral code when it comes to non Muslims.

    • @oddalfhutlur6760
      @oddalfhutlur6760 11 місяців тому +72

      Classic muslim BS

    • @lilh0mie
      @lilh0mie 11 місяців тому +19

      ⁠these terrorists claim Islam but have extremist views and beliefs

    • @shetos1233
      @shetos1233 11 місяців тому +76

      You do realise the guy they showed in the video said it's all forbidden in Islam while the one saying they allow it to non believers is the vice reporter just spouting a claim he didn't pack whatsoever with any source

    • @dslhernandez3001
      @dslhernandez3001 10 місяців тому

      Maybe the reasoning is they get to "corrupt" the buyers with drugs while funding their group?

  • @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly
    @JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 10 місяців тому +55

    *Governments are much bigger at this game than any cartel will ever be*

    • @bitahonintegrative5710
      @bitahonintegrative5710 10 місяців тому +1

      Bla bla bla bla

    • @dolceanstar
      @dolceanstar 2 місяці тому +4

      You got that right. I used to watch bales of drugs being delivered, by school buses, to a local naval base in the Caribbean. Centre of operations was moved, since the 2010 earthquake, to Haiti I believe.

    • @carlabroderick5508
      @carlabroderick5508 6 днів тому

      That is due to cartels taking over the government.

  • @CapitalVices
    @CapitalVices 11 місяців тому +91

    The DEA ”A group of drugdealers investigating a group of drugdealers”

  • @judylandry302
    @judylandry302 11 місяців тому +478

    "The War on Drugs" in the U.S is an annual $100 Billion Dollar Industry. Taxpayer dollars are lobbied for, budgeted and used to fund the Criminal Justice System, employs millions of people, in numerous local, state and federal agencies, and funds thousands of contracts to corporations, dedicated to this operation.
    Illegal drugs in and from foreign countries are an integral mainstay of The United States economy.

    • @lissyflur1907
      @lissyflur1907 11 місяців тому +56

      The War on Drugs is the real Crime here...

    • @nilanperera4774
      @nilanperera4774 11 місяців тому

      Not forgetting the $$$ being made on supplying guns and ammunition to the cartels...that flow is uninterrupted from the US.

    • @NJIT22
      @NJIT22 11 місяців тому

      Brainwashed. This is what enemies of this country wants US population believe about the state institutions. It’s a very simple tactic. Erode social trust and the country will collapse from within. Everyone should know this and understand that drugs today is a weapon of indirect action and defense apparatus of the country should treat individuals involved as enemy combatants.

    • @AaronfromEngland1989
      @AaronfromEngland1989 11 місяців тому +1

      Biggest military in the world thousand government agencies,border patrol ect seem like they are allowing it.

    • @40ozofdeath65
      @40ozofdeath65 11 місяців тому +26

      Yuppp it’s part of our economy, the drugs will never stop

  • @BILLYBOBB3080
    @BILLYBOBB3080 11 місяців тому +72

    We didn't try to fix it. We went into business with them.

    • @Ahahahhaaah
      @Ahahahhaaah 11 місяців тому +1

      And now you libs promote use with safe drug using facilities. Good job.

    • @Hmongboi228
      @Hmongboi228 11 місяців тому

      A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

    • @JuanCastillo-nx3oi
      @JuanCastillo-nx3oi 11 місяців тому +3

      Bingo

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому +1

      We started the business

  • @windowlicker_4207
    @windowlicker_4207 11 місяців тому +1204

    No matter how bad the world wants to paint cartels and gang members as the bad guys, we know that it's really the people who work for these governments, militaries, or police forces, that are doing so much worse. Corruption at the top is what fuels these problems

    • @ok.ok.5735
      @ok.ok.5735 11 місяців тому

      I thought governments, militaries, and police forces were all cartels and gangs. Red, blue, green what else could those colors mean. If they weren’t gang colors?

    • @steadly3668
      @steadly3668 11 місяців тому +118

      Name checks out.

    • @cabezadepija7318
      @cabezadepija7318 11 місяців тому +39

      no it's the fact that people including cops and officials want to have fun once in a while... sobriety is the most boring miserable thing ever for more people than you'd think and trying to oppress people for it only makes it more dangerous and profitable

    • @DCM88
      @DCM88 11 місяців тому

      @@cabezadepija7318 that's good ol judeo-christian values for you with a pinch of puritanism.

    • @juliangriffiths9583
      @juliangriffiths9583 10 місяців тому

      funny how you say this, since the cia is the reason mexico is so fucked right now... if they never funded cartels in mexico it wouldve most likely been stable now.

  • @rob5598
    @rob5598 11 місяців тому +568

    Hard to "take it down" when our own CIA is involved in it🙄

    • @Boston82bl
      @Boston82bl 11 місяців тому

      Exactly. Cia is the biggest drug cartel in the world by far.

    • @ufukpolat3480
      @ufukpolat3480 11 місяців тому +47

      Sssh, VICE doesn't want you to know that.

    • @biguubtorres7907
      @biguubtorres7907 11 місяців тому +3

      Owns*

    • @cadicamo8720
      @cadicamo8720 11 місяців тому +2

      I know what you're talking about.... And it's irrelevant.

    • @ElPalo.
      @ElPalo. 11 місяців тому

      Fax

  • @FaithRox
    @FaithRox 11 місяців тому +329

    Why would the Federal Agencies take down their own operations? 🤔

    • @charispapadopoulos1634
      @charispapadopoulos1634 11 місяців тому +22

      hahahaha true and also tax all the untraceable money that is tax free for so long .

    • @wizkaqueefa9003
      @wizkaqueefa9003 11 місяців тому

      Gary Webb exposing the Iran-Contra & C.I.A. involvement in Cocaine trade in Nicaragua made him the first "Edward Snowden" figure of the internet age.

    • @RobinPhillips1957
      @RobinPhillips1957 11 місяців тому +8

      MONEY!

    • @TheDankShrimp
      @TheDankShrimp 11 місяців тому +7

      I came for this lol

    • @Hmongboi228
      @Hmongboi228 11 місяців тому

      A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

  • @mohamadsami7131
    @mohamadsami7131 11 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • @AQpizza
    @AQpizza 9 місяців тому

    Absolute favorite series on YT

  • @ChilsonTV
    @ChilsonTV 11 місяців тому +182

    title fix: "how the U.S. funded and armed narco-terrorists"

    • @dpellek74
      @dpellek74 11 місяців тому +6

      Perfect 👍

    • @texasgirlmomx2342
      @texasgirlmomx2342 11 місяців тому +9

      Exxxactly. I was like the Title is click bait. The US never tried 😂😂

    • @spicychad55
      @spicychad55 11 місяців тому +12

      Title fix: "How the US govt and corporations make money from the illegal drug trade"

    • @spesial1199
      @spesial1199 11 місяців тому

      Pergect

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian 11 місяців тому

      Seems like a list of Israels enemas so far, hezbullah, syria, Iran.
      Seems like a nice young man, shame he's a shill

  • @ehaaron
    @ehaaron 11 місяців тому +53

    "trafficking drugs to non believers is ok".💯 Thank you vice for being brave and exposing the cult. ❤

    • @cr3292
      @cr3292 6 місяців тому

      This is a ridiculous video .. the guys shooting in Begining aren’t Lebanese or in Lebanon . Vice used the hesbollah name as clickbait cuz the organization would never give them an interview secondly . Just because there’s a drug organization mafia who happens to be Shia doesn’t automatically make them hesbollwh connected like this video is suggesting

    • @JaysonBernardo-ch9fv
      @JaysonBernardo-ch9fv 6 місяців тому

      Honestly I think the people at the top of these groups aren't even believers( at least not fanatical) they just use the religion to manipulate like (not all) many religious leaders do

    • @eyelike82
      @eyelike82 5 місяців тому +1

      Don't do drugs then 😂

    • @humzahaq1435
      @humzahaq1435 4 місяці тому +2

      Literally isnt even true lmaooo even touching drugs is haram but go off

    • @Ismo-sx6ih
      @Ismo-sx6ih 25 днів тому

      So you judge islam by what some drug addicts do,Interesting.Try learn instead what islam says about these things.

  • @Joseluz1969
    @Joseluz1969 9 місяців тому +10

    Very informative, the DEA vs CIA dispute in the Cassandra operation. Case in point: In 2022 the US Treasury sanctioned former president of Paraguay Horacio Cartes under the Magnitsky Act, accusing him of laundering drug money for Hezbollah.The guy owns a few banks and basically half of the countrie's big business. The US government repeatedly threatened to deport the him to America to undergo trial and there was even an airplane sent to Paraguay to allegedly fly him back to the US . But a year has gone by and he is still alive and kicking. This really baffled me, until I saw this video.

  • @JayjiNZ
    @JayjiNZ 11 місяців тому +8

    Great to see another episode of this series

  • @piku5637
    @piku5637 11 місяців тому +414

    Just legalize, tax and regulate most drugs like we do with alcohol and tobacco. Decriminalize the most harmful others. And have rehabilitation treatment centres available as part of a universal healthcare system. Therapy in general needs to be universalized too. Better than leaving it up to the dark market.

    • @lazymass
      @lazymass 11 місяців тому

      No, its better to fuel war and let the mafia all over the world to take all the drug money and finance all their activities with it... Why would you take the market for yourself and take all that profit from mafia? Poor mafia guys... /s

    • @charispapadopoulos1634
      @charispapadopoulos1634 11 місяців тому

      Goverments and in general goverment people hate to pay taxes , so drugs being ilegal it benefits every country leader cause the money is untraceable . Or you believe that if they wanted , the " so nice people " that they so much care for us they can't stop the drug trafficing ? Srsly you believe that they CAN'T ? Or you believe they just DON'T WANT TO . If you had a successful bussiness for the last 40 years would you change it ? ( legalize it) ofc not , it's all about the money the profit and the numbers going up .

    • @matthewcarey5842
      @matthewcarey5842 11 місяців тому

      Useless approach that never works, it's why there's homeless drug addicts all over liberal cities

    • @scenenuf
      @scenenuf 11 місяців тому +30

      And all those making hundreds of millions upon billions out of the current drug war, would either have to adopt the industry transfer or lose to others forcing the adoption. It is in itself a war on morality and ethics and psychopathic power plays.

    • @scenenuf
      @scenenuf 11 місяців тому +11

      But I am fully all for this too, but that would never ever ever happen. Ever.

  • @ReinhardtMiller
    @ReinhardtMiller 7 місяців тому +1

    Excellent news feed.

  • @smarttarded
    @smarttarded 9 місяців тому +4

    Its been a while since I watched a program like this from Vice, glad its making a comeback

  • @joshuawichman9320
    @joshuawichman9320 Місяць тому

    your videos are amazing bro

  • @msoda8516
    @msoda8516 11 місяців тому +16

    It’s time we admit the war on drugs is a complete failure

  • @MrAracag
    @MrAracag 11 місяців тому +4

    Man I have missed these episodes. So good!

  • @LuciusJohn
    @LuciusJohn 9 місяців тому

    This is a terrific report

  • @CeluiEtSeul
    @CeluiEtSeul 11 місяців тому +26

    To answer that question: The US either failed to take out their competition or they are secretly working together.

  • @Hypnotoad1987
    @Hypnotoad1987 11 місяців тому +49

    We all know the Lebanese army is the 3rd strongest army in Lebanon.

    • @Berm_Blaster
      @Berm_Blaster 11 місяців тому +5

      Truth. 😂😂😂

    • @Trancestorr
      @Trancestorr 11 місяців тому +3

      Who’s the second?

    • @Hypnotoad1987
      @Hypnotoad1987 11 місяців тому

      @@Trancestorr drug gangs, and before you ask their boss hezbullah aka irans army is the strongest

    • @hussein9228
      @hussein9228 8 місяців тому +3

      Amal movement@@Trancestorr

  • @K.V.P14
    @K.V.P14 11 місяців тому +1

    Great to see Vice going Vice again 🙌

  • @AQpizza
    @AQpizza 9 місяців тому +3

    Makes you wonder if the few G’s you bought are partially fueling these international conflicts, like a lil investment 😂

  • @bongwelll
    @bongwelll 11 місяців тому +575

    This is by far my favorite Vice program. Always good information. One thing you left out post 9/11 US soldiers guarding and paying for destroyed or planted poppy fields. We all saw it on actual news and other documentation. Gotta wonder with our countries history of running drugs. End the drug war end mass incarceration.

    • @markdog9104
      @markdog9104 11 місяців тому

      Why do you think we destroyed poppy fields the same time we picked up trade with Asiatic countries, such as VIETNAM. We got that good smack from there, we don't need any afghan pure.

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому

      It's almost like when you destabilize an entire region of the world they retaliate. It's almost like they didn't fly planes into buildings because they felt like it.

    • @DETRACT0RD00M
      @DETRACT0RD00M 11 місяців тому

      Don't forget selling those "confiscated" farms to the Sacklers

    • @t_rexdiaz6778
      @t_rexdiaz6778 11 місяців тому

      So to start selling drugs for their own profit??

    • @Rezin_8
      @Rezin_8 11 місяців тому +19

      Or the duffle bags FULL OF CASH coming back stateside unsearched for decades.....how does a man get a GTR in 6 months in Afghanistan 😂

  • @deathuponusalll
    @deathuponusalll 11 місяців тому +150

    If the war in the Middle East taught us anything is that once an organization gets aid from the US to establish itself in power, it will be next to impossible to take them down

    • @mikaellindqvist5599
      @mikaellindqvist5599 11 місяців тому

      All US wars just lead to worsen the situation big time. Destabilizstion is what us is all about. Funny how they consider them selves the world police when all they do is fueling drugtrades and spreading terror. The country with the heaviest collective deathkarma in the world for sure. Glad to not be american when its time to collect the collective karma...

    • @kinngrimm
      @kinngrimm 11 місяців тому +6

      It will take some time to get rid of the DEA for good.

    • @garethjones2528
      @garethjones2528 11 місяців тому

      @@kinngrimmhopefully not

    • @deathuponusalll
      @deathuponusalll 11 місяців тому

      @@kinngrimmhopefully all the agencies meddling that further help the problem persist and they all watch out for eachother not out of cooperation but from blackmail from what some ex DEA agents have said about their life being threatened. Also it should be noted how the war in the Middle East ended, the country was handed over to the taliban who used to be the mujahadeen with new equipment to run their government with the agreement that the US would still have access to its opium, that should tell us something as to how this problem will most likely be “solved” here. This whole mess gets shadier and darker the more you look into the past starting from when Mexican cartels started having deals with governments both Mexican and US agencies like CIA when the CIA needed to raise black budget funds without notifying congress of their dealings to fight the Sandinistas in El Salvador against communism

    • @tonyrios9668
      @tonyrios9668 11 місяців тому +6

      If by that you mean Israel, yeah.

  • @Deraldgjr
    @Deraldgjr 11 місяців тому +75

    The US was guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan. 😂

    • @prdgmshft9107
      @prdgmshft9107 11 місяців тому +9

      First they burned them down which inadvertently created a power vacuum that fuel more violence because the poppies where/are a big part of the culture/economy. After learning that hard lesson they allowed the fields to be grown

    • @prdgmshft9107
      @prdgmshft9107 11 місяців тому

      First they burned them down which inadvertently created a power vacuum that fuel more violence because the poppies where/are a big part of the culture/economy. After learning that hard lesson they allowed the fields to be grown

    • @mokhachoka2918
      @mokhachoka2918 11 місяців тому +3

      They wanted to take Iran out by flooding it with heroin but that failed. So many soldiers died for someone else's failed strategy.

    • @xijinbling2373
      @xijinbling2373 11 місяців тому

      US assets guarding Mexicos narco trade.

    • @ForTheMemessss
      @ForTheMemessss 11 місяців тому +3

      Yeah, i think afghan poppies export rose when u.s. occupied afghanistan.

  • @Snowycaaa
    @Snowycaaa 11 місяців тому +11

    A bit hard to counter something you helped established

  • @hughjaass3787
    @hughjaass3787 11 місяців тому +3

    As bad as the 80s American CIA & DEA missions in Central America with coke, as it is, it is also just ONE of the times the public knows about.

  • @3puntoscolega
    @3puntoscolega 11 місяців тому +11

    I can hear conservatives now “Every time you smoke the devils lettuce you’re giving money to the alquaedas”😂😂😂

    • @adspur
      @adspur 11 місяців тому

      They don’t think or, say that.Weed is mainstream now and it’s Nixon fault whey cannabis was considered non medicinal and dangerous.Been plenty of administrations since him from different parties and they continue to try to hold on to the power.Weed is the last of our worries.I’m against any synthetic drug that kills you easily though.The demand is there because most humans are slobbering addicts.

    • @3puntoscolega
      @3puntoscolega 11 місяців тому

      i can’t see the reply

  • @samc265
    @samc265 8 місяців тому

    The thing that will stop bad habits is ppl being informed on how bad it really is and providing safer alternatives

  • @Headhunter_212
    @Headhunter_212 8 місяців тому

    VICE has been workshopping this title for 10 years.
    That Queens accent in the intro. Wow. What an antique.

  • @denizthekingslayer1250
    @denizthekingslayer1250 11 місяців тому +4

    He is the best presenter ever more things he needs to find to talk about %100 will watch.

  • @d1specdrifter
    @d1specdrifter 11 місяців тому +35

    The united states isnt trying to stop it though.😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @Hmongboi228
      @Hmongboi228 11 місяців тому

      A world held hostage by black market nukes that will be created by Iran is a far worse scenario than a world where individuals have a choice in their addiction.. 💡 A lesser of two evils but I 100% agree with their decision..

    • @Berm_Blaster
      @Berm_Blaster 11 місяців тому +6

      They just want their cut.

  • @tommy2tuggz
    @tommy2tuggz 11 місяців тому +1

    I really liked this VICE program. Keep it up!

  • @mattttam7934
    @mattttam7934 11 місяців тому +10

    Fentanyl was made in MIT and Janet Woodcock authorized it for safe use in children in the FDA before retracting that deco on a month later.

    • @LK-em1bv
      @LK-em1bv 2 місяці тому +3

      Fentanyl is used in hospital settings and prescribed for serious pain there is nothing wrong with it when the dose is known and monitored by professionals
      The issue is when it is not regulated and produced on the black market as the strength of the product is unknown it’s a clear example of the increase in danger with current United States drug policy
      Regardless it is true the United States is at fault for the fentanyl crisis due to how they approached the opioid crisis years ago
      They should have provided safe supply when the heroin epidemic was raging and people wouldn’t have moved to fentanyl as heroin is a preferred drug but isn’t available
      By now they would have seen decreases in overdoses addiction and crime rates rather than increases

  • @ceraphim
    @ceraphim 11 місяців тому +12

    It's hard to take down anything that your own people actively fund.

    • @adspur
      @adspur 11 місяців тому

      The addicts demand it.That’s the source of the problem.Nobody is making people do drugs.They just want to get HIGH

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@adspuryou think addicts are funding this 😂😂😂 try the whole political system

    • @tz8785
      @tz8785 10 місяців тому +1

      @@adspur The politicians demand it.That’s the source of the problem.Nobody is making people prohibit drugs.They just want to get on their moralist HIGH ground.

  • @Gavin-III7
    @Gavin-III7 11 місяців тому +32

    Failed? I bet you anything they took part in it. 😂 you can make disgusting amounts of money by selling drugs.

    • @Blacksun1984
      @Blacksun1984 11 місяців тому

      Someone of few people that are not blind they havent lost they are in control of that 🎉🎉🎉

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому +3

      It's almost like the system is doing exactly what it's designed to do 😂😂😂

    • @OK-yy6qz
      @OK-yy6qz 11 місяців тому

      Yeah if anything DEA succeed in shutting down part of these organisations and then the US (mainly CIA) shut down the DEA

  • @labram_jahames
    @labram_jahames 11 місяців тому

    if vice goes out i’ll really miss this program

  • @dizzy7859
    @dizzy7859 9 місяців тому +7

    Our problem is our world is so dysfunctionally stressful, unbalanced and thus depriving the human soul of true happiness that many (myself included) have looked to drugs as a form of temporary happiness and relief. Without consumers. There is no demand. The problem is the addiction. It’s us. Yes the world has fucked us. But it still starts with us. Genuine happiness is still plausible even with the cards stacked against. We’re just gonna have to work/want it harder and we can’t do it alone. All glory to Jah.

  • @Rockabillyrobb
    @Rockabillyrobb 11 місяців тому +14

    Media needs to separate the us government from the us citizens. They are not the same
    ..

    • @charispapadopoulos1634
      @charispapadopoulos1634 11 місяців тому +2

      Yep and i really have a hard time telling who is worse .

    • @ehaaron
      @ehaaron 11 місяців тому

      @@charispapadopoulos1634
      the people are the government and the government is the people.
      you cannot escape your own. and therefore people will get the government they deserve.
      and so civilizations are formed, some that allow women education and some that force them to cover up.

  • @teejay3250
    @teejay3250 11 місяців тому +10

    Nothing is ever simple.

    • @bloatedsodium7301
      @bloatedsodium7301 11 місяців тому +1

      Leaving a comment is.

    • @judylandry302
      @judylandry302 11 місяців тому +1

      "The Truth is rarely pure and never simple."
      -Oscar Wilde

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому

      "the simplest explanation is preferable to one that is more complex"

    • @judylandry302
      @judylandry302 11 місяців тому

      @@DonMarzzoni Thinking takes effort. Critical thinking takes intelligence.

    • @DonMarzzoni
      @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому

      ​@@judylandry302occams razor still stands either the government is fully aware and participating in this or we are imagining it. I'll take my chances

  • @APSweden
    @APSweden 9 місяців тому +2

    I love the "High Resolution" stamp on their medieval TV. Very high resolution like 800x600 😁😁

  • @HaydenRaceOp
    @HaydenRaceOp 7 місяців тому +2

    That hasbulla guy is more dangerous than I thought

  • @sqepticull
    @sqepticull 11 місяців тому +2

    They didn't fail to take it down; they are running the show.

  • @Lenoxlanellc
    @Lenoxlanellc 11 місяців тому +6

    It’s crazy cause the United States did the same thing with the contras smh

  • @AlanHell080
    @AlanHell080 11 місяців тому +3

    Did they just spoil the plot for the new season of Jack Ryan ?

  • @QualeQualeson
    @QualeQualeson 11 місяців тому +5

    The war on drugs is so astonishingly senseless, so abundantly misrepresented, abusive and counter productive it defies description. Legalize "everything". The pros vs the cons are virtually 100-0.

    • @joshlewis575
      @joshlewis575 6 місяців тому

      Baffling to think how many trillions and trillions of dollars we've wasted fighting something people have done since Neanderthal times, probably sooner. I'd imagine between all the people who work the border and port inspections, all the non violent dealers in prison and the lost taxes, we're blowing 200+ billion easily every year.

  • @h00psandy0y0
    @h00psandy0y0 11 місяців тому +103

    This is a perfect example of how “diplomacy at any cost” undermines American interests and national security. Bravo to Vice for covering this.

    • @bobhappyman
      @bobhappyman 11 місяців тому +20

      The US has never followed that.

    • @romanski5811
      @romanski5811 11 місяців тому +13

      Naw, the Iran deal was very valuable and worth the drug hassle because the solution to the drug problem is elsewhere, namely to make all drugs legal and thereby removing the breeding ground for illegal drug trade.

    • @GermanMythbuster
      @GermanMythbuster 9 місяців тому

      @@romanski5811 "namely to make all drugs legal and thereby removing the breeding ground for illegal drug trade."
      That is exactly why there is a Black Market. You can't "win" a war on drugs. If people want them, someone will sell it to them.
      *By banning them you create "the breeding ground for illegal drug trade"!*

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p 9 місяців тому

      exactly what is he talking about and. the Us is behing thease groups and the US calls anybody they don't like a terriostt organztion@@bobhappyman

    • @JGalt-em4xu
      @JGalt-em4xu 7 місяців тому

      "Odd" how an investigation carried out by US intelligence agencies lends itself to eternal, inevitable conflict.

  • @Pascal9004
    @Pascal9004 11 місяців тому +19

    This is what happens when the US resorts to sanctions to squeeze them. Instead of destroying them, they thrive outside the regular economic system.

    • @FauulaBoy
      @FauulaBoy 11 місяців тому +3

      Wait you suggesting USA invade Lebanon and Iran? Cause that is really a dumb idea.

    • @SS-uy9fx
      @SS-uy9fx 11 місяців тому

      Speaking as a syrian 😅 the US’s foreign policy pushed the regime to do such things since they control syrian oil reserves. Which makes them thugs for steeling it ! + this has been going on for years now and it looks like they want a cut from that too 😂 but uf u rly want to know how it all started. Go back and take a look at ISIS ! How brutal they were ! That is what captagon makes to a human being. In order to fight tgose basters they had to make some for the syrian army as well. Don’t be fooled by this shitty media that makes you forget who crushed those MFs and who payed the price for it. Oh and one last thing 😅 they all had american made state of the art weapons what a fucking coincidence 😉

    • @Pascal9004
      @Pascal9004 11 місяців тому +1

      @@FauulaBoy Did I actually write that in my comments? Because it looks like you didn't read the comment and that's a really dumb idea.

    • @FauulaBoy
      @FauulaBoy 11 місяців тому

      @@Pascal9004 You literally said to destroy them instead of sanctioning them. Hesbulla is part of the government to destroy them USA would have to invade Lebanon. Just like how they tried to destroy the Taliban which was the Government of Afghanistan before USA invasion and we all know how that result of that.

    • @Pascal9004
      @Pascal9004 11 місяців тому +1

      @@FauulaBoy I think you misunderstood my comment. I meant that the US wanted to destroy those nations through sanctions, but instead, those nations thrived outside the normal economic system. Instead of wiping out the threat, the US made them more dangerous. The terrorist groups can create entire industries outside regulation because of those sanctions in the first place.

  • @ChiTownGuerrilla
    @ChiTownGuerrilla 11 місяців тому +5

    Hash is great. I really prefer it over bud and oil concentrates.

  • @dewmontain123
    @dewmontain123 11 місяців тому +2

    This is the vice we have been wanting. Back to its roots...😂

  • @mrhoque4262
    @mrhoque4262 8 місяців тому

    2:25 is the cutest think I've seen all 2023. I feel more American than ever

  • @InfoHiveJzyP
    @InfoHiveJzyP 11 місяців тому +8

    Vice always delivers the best material!

  • @EastsideHilltops
    @EastsideHilltops 11 місяців тому +14

    When you do one on israeli drug trade?

    • @MonkeyDropBoss
      @MonkeyDropBoss 11 місяців тому +5

      We both know why…

    • @user-hj8oo6hk1w
      @user-hj8oo6hk1w 11 місяців тому +1

      Bc israeli drug trade isn’t funding a islamic terrorist organization lool

    • @cl9615
      @cl9615 11 місяців тому +1

      What proof is there for that?

    • @lampshadecollector8
      @lampshadecollector8 8 місяців тому

      Oy vey.

    • @Channel-ml4qv
      @Channel-ml4qv 8 місяців тому

      @@MonkeyDropBoss Because people complain it paints Arabs in a bad light since they are leading the drug trade in Israel? Or do you just not know anything about it?

  • @OttomanLebanon
    @OttomanLebanon 9 місяців тому

    "Terrorism is good for bussiness, it's acts as an insurance, as long as their is war on terror their can be no war on drugs" Modern Warfare 2 quote.

  • @BenficaFem
    @BenficaFem 11 місяців тому +1

    The US doesn't like competition.

  • @andresciahooten9598
    @andresciahooten9598 11 місяців тому +4

    Was that a little boy holding a gun?! WTH

  • @absyusuf4932
    @absyusuf4932 11 місяців тому +23

    The global narco trade is worth about the same as the entire economy of Germany, 4+ trillion. Imagine if that ceased to exist.

    • @jondoe5937
      @jondoe5937 11 місяців тому +6

      Well, I seriously doubt all that money would just poof, as if all drug consumers instead put their money intto a retirement savings. People like spending the money they have.

    • @silver2zilver
      @silver2zilver 11 місяців тому

      The global drug trade is only slightly more profitable than global sex trafficking of children. What are we even doing on earth?

    • @naradaian
      @naradaian 11 місяців тому +2

      Banks wouldnt let that happen....
      Can Trump and Russia and China and Iran and North Korea be blamed yet?

    • @ianwilkinson5069
      @ianwilkinson5069 11 місяців тому

      @@naradaian good luck with that, it would appear that the Bidens have more to do with this than Trump. Whos son is running around in his underwear smoking crack on camera as he argues with his dead brothers wife.

    • @tappajaav
      @tappajaav 8 місяців тому

      @@naradaian No.

  • @kyvanthrone
    @kyvanthrone 11 місяців тому

    Vice news is the best news out there. They go to the scariest places, it's crazy. The other one I can think of is Trafficked by Mariana

  • @scherry2900
    @scherry2900 11 місяців тому

    Been to several cocaine producing countries. The problem (supply) only shifts from region to region, but will never disappear as long as demand exists. Very simple market economics. If you really want to learn something about the subject: read the book Narconomics.

  • @xzxmemoxzx
    @xzxmemoxzx 11 місяців тому +16

    because they didn’t want to? they invented, invested, and still profit from it daily

  • @kezsovreign
    @kezsovreign 11 місяців тому +11

    Thanks for the info, always learning new random stuff with you guys & i cant stand watching the "news" so this is as close as it gets 😎😁 even as a kiwi who doesnt really give a sh*t, i believe the US govt is always involved in this stuff 😂🤑 honestly 🙄 much love to the real ones of the USA 😊❤

  • @blackhat6345
    @blackhat6345 8 місяців тому

    I am starting a campaing to report your videos @Vice . You crossed the lines this time.

  • @caddilacjones2397
    @caddilacjones2397 8 місяців тому

    For a second i got the title confused and thought that man baby was dealing drugs.

  • @leostreat3573
    @leostreat3573 11 місяців тому +2

    I'd like to congratulate the presenter of this video on his great hair.

  • @grisht9896
    @grisht9896 10 місяців тому

    Pretty aggravating learning about this after our previous leaders have already served their terms.

  • @krisfleischer7467
    @krisfleischer7467 9 місяців тому

    The oyster shells gig is up

  • @isaiahmccray855
    @isaiahmccray855 11 місяців тому +3

    Husbula got the drug game ON LOCK😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @WeMatter247
    @WeMatter247 11 місяців тому +11

    …. The drugs were never the problem, it was the violence that was attached to the money that made things difficult.

    • @azizbelkharmoudi2564
      @azizbelkharmoudi2564 9 місяців тому

      C'mon drugs addiction and drugs destroying lives are not problems 😐😐😑doing drugs is morally wrong period

    • @WeMatter247
      @WeMatter247 8 місяців тому +1

      @@azizbelkharmoudi2564… doing drugs is a CHOICE… Bozo 🙄

    • @azizbelkharmoudi2564
      @azizbelkharmoudi2564 8 місяців тому

      @@WeMatter247 a bad and a morally wrong choice

  • @ryancorroll4667
    @ryancorroll4667 8 місяців тому

    3.46 mins in, man those plants look really sad😢

  • @Joseph714xo
    @Joseph714xo 10 місяців тому

    Old Vice vibes 🔥

  • @michaelcacho1367
    @michaelcacho1367 11 місяців тому +3

    Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs

    • @ishowspppd7494
      @ishowspppd7494 11 місяців тому +3

      Yes Portland is America's Dumpster 🗑️

    • @mykel808
      @mykel808 10 місяців тому

      @@ishowspppd7494 so is oklahoma where they have strict drug laws, more incarcerated citizens in that state than any other country in the world. i'd rather live in shitland oregon getting my car broken into than live with a meth addled family in trailer park oklahoma destined for a life of prison and poverty.

    • @tz8785
      @tz8785 10 місяців тому

      Even leaving aside the federal drug laws, decriminalisation is a bit like applying a bandage to an open fracture.

  • @The_Quaalude
    @The_Quaalude 11 місяців тому +14

    America is supporting cartels around the world 😂

  • @secondarytrollaccount
    @secondarytrollaccount 11 місяців тому +1

    They really thought they could start a war on drugs and win. Drugs constantly be taking the W

  • @maddendubois8931
    @maddendubois8931 10 місяців тому

    “I guess the neighbors think I’m selling dope, selling dope”

  • @SameAsAnyOtherStranger
    @SameAsAnyOtherStranger 11 місяців тому +3

    Keeping drugs illegal and dehabilitating is a vested interest of every invasive power in the world. That being as it is, making drugs a preferable alternative to life without them by depriving the masses of the basic joys of life is also a major objective.

  • @JT-lw1oh
    @JT-lw1oh 11 місяців тому +9

    An official commented on project Cassandra in a politico article which I think sheds a little more light. “What if the CIA or the Mossad had an intelligence operation ongoing inside Hezbollah and they were trying to pursue someone . . . against whom we had impeccable [intelligence] collection and the DEA is not going to know that?” the official said. “I get the feeling people who don’t know what’s going on in the broader universe are grasping at straws.”
    The official added: “The world is a lot more complicated than viewed through the narrow lens of drug trafficking. So you’re not going to let CIA rule the roost, but you’re also certainly not going to let DEA do it either. Your approach to anything as complicated as Hezbollah is going to have to involve the interagency [process], because the State Department has a piece of the pie, the intelligence community does, Treasury does, DOD does.” Which makes sense given that just some of the names mentioned in the hezbollah indictment would be considered extremely high value targets like the Venezuelan president and vice president. Who knows who else wasn’t mentioned or carefully blocked from this investigation too. Like “ghost” who’s a top operative of hezbollah and is supposedly one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world which he is also a major supplier for chemical weapons that was strangely protected by Obama era administration officials .

  • @shervinrh7103
    @shervinrh7103 10 місяців тому

    How can I contact vice news for a report?

  • @user-xh8ii2hj6r
    @user-xh8ii2hj6r 4 місяці тому

    DAMN....
    I flinched at 2:26

  • @yadiramendez.
    @yadiramendez. 11 місяців тому +2

    Pray 🙏 to God we should not get tempted by all this evilness. We mustn't fall weak to this.

  • @hourbee5535
    @hourbee5535 11 місяців тому +7

    The US has failed at many things. It is normal.

  • @mr.wonkastyle2558
    @mr.wonkastyle2558 10 місяців тому

    Real life is crazier than any movie

  • @heyslade64
    @heyslade64 11 місяців тому +1

    lucki sample at the end

  • @userMB1
    @userMB1 11 місяців тому +123

    Vice's drug related news is the best in the world! Nowhere can you find well informed, objective drug related news that is brought is such a succinct, easy to understand way.

    • @irollerblade13
      @irollerblade13 11 місяців тому +6

      I agree I just wish they didn't have so much BS other topics they cover that are so biased it is no longer Journalism.

    • @sofpsocf
      @sofpsocf 11 місяців тому +11

      @@irollerblade13easy, don’t watch it. You don’t have to watch everything if u don’t like it 🤯

    • @winzyl9546
      @winzyl9546 11 місяців тому +3

      If theyre so good at it they should do it to help pay for that bankruptcy.

    • @maigepresents5840
      @maigepresents5840 11 місяців тому +2

      Must be why they are going through bankruptcy...

    • @userMB1
      @userMB1 11 місяців тому

      @@maigepresents5840 i have premium so i don't know if the videos have ads. I imagine that might be a problem because there are a lot of videos that might not be suitable for for most companies.

  • @Ilyaswashere
    @Ilyaswashere 11 місяців тому +5

    Wow this is great Vice content, many media are afraid to condemn terrorism in fear of being called racist but this stated all the facts…10/10

    • @the_local_bigamist
      @the_local_bigamist 9 місяців тому

      What a stupid comment. The world has just had a "war on terror" and, if anything, is less afraid of condemning terrorism than it is of utilising the threat of terrorism in order to attempt to police the world and dominate political spheres. Also, terrorism is not a race issue and thinking that it is shows that you probably have issues with race yourself. Would you make assumptions about the FARC based on their varied ethnic background? What about Ulster Loyalist terrorists, who are mostly white and who now mostly run drugs?

  • @Youtube123Viewer
    @Youtube123Viewer 11 місяців тому +2

    If you cant beat, join

  • @laisiasapuamau5511
    @laisiasapuamau5511 9 місяців тому

    2:36 thank you for calling it a terrorist group ❤

  • @madcrabber1113
    @madcrabber1113 9 місяців тому +1

    We are too worried about hurting peoples feelings and political corruption to actually help the people.

  • @simonmolina8827
    @simonmolina8827 10 місяців тому +3

    😂😂😂😂😂 gotta love my country always blaming someone else while in fact we the ones behind it

  • @nnkk7742
    @nnkk7742 11 місяців тому +5

    Everyone involved in the war on drugs needs to be thrown in prison.

    • @graysonjd5624
      @graysonjd5624 11 місяців тому +2

      Unfortunately Nixon is permanently indispose.

    • @Ahahahhaaah
      @Ahahahhaaah 11 місяців тому +4

      So the democrats.

    • @adspur
      @adspur 11 місяців тому +1

      The one’s buying and using do too for they are the source of the whole problem

    • @ehaaron
      @ehaaron 11 місяців тому

      making drugs illegal and unregulated created a market with increased profit margins. At the same time the youth of the nation, being imprisoned, were further pushed into the crime world. resulting in more criminals.
      Are drugs really bad or is it the law that is manufacturing this crisis? majority of drug incarcerations are end users.
      all for what? to satisfy righteous people, preaching its immoral to do drugs? A law based on morality? Can this law be misused to lock up a certain demographic?
      people like you are part of the problem.
      If drugs are made in America by American farmers this problem would never arise.
      A manufactured crisis.

  • @DonMarzzoni
    @DonMarzzoni 11 місяців тому +1

    And Yall think people flew planes into buildings because they felt like it and then call them terrorists 😂😂😂

  • @Reecekeepthepiece
    @Reecekeepthepiece 11 місяців тому

    I’m looking at this Hasbulla guy real differently now.

  • @thomasyancey5887
    @thomasyancey5887 11 місяців тому +3

    Failed implies they actually tried

  • @lilsmokerboi204
    @lilsmokerboi204 10 місяців тому +3

    vice should make a video of why and how vice went bankrupt

  • @m.martinez325
    @m.martinez325 20 днів тому +1

    El dinero no tiene bandera, y cuando hablamos de narcotráfico hablamos de dinero.

  • @JohnnyUtah99
    @JohnnyUtah99 10 місяців тому

    How Vice failed to be a legitimate news organization that could avoid going bankrupt