• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Wall Street: “Yo, there’s some stuff over there that we want to profit from”

    Pentagon/CIA: “Okay, fam, we’ll throw some guns at the extremists we just conveniently have in the area. You’ll also get a nice arms manufacturing contract as a bonus”

    However if you are asking about logistics, it’s a much messier matter. As in “Islamists in the Arabian peninsula facilitating drug trade in South America via ports in western Europe” level of mess.