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Market Mondays

America's Drug Crisis & The China Connection

Market Mondays

EYL Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

54K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Market Mondays! In this clip, our hosts Rashad Bilal, Ian Dunlap, and Troy Millings dive deep into a critical topic—America's ongoing war on drugs, with a focus on the rising fentanyl crisis and its international implications.


*Segment Overview:*


*The Ineffectiveness of the War on Drugs*

Rashad Bilal kicks off the conversation by addressing why the war on drugs has never worked and highlights America's insatiable appetite for drugs. He draws comparisons between the drug problem in the U.S. and countries with strong moral standards like Japan and Singapore, arguing that America's normalized drug culture fuels its own crisis.


*The China Connection*

As the discussion unfolds, Troy and Ian point out a significant factor exacerbating the problem: the role of China. Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, is being manufactured in China and smuggled through Mexico. Ian goes one step further to connect the dots between fentanyl, COVID-19, and potential economic warfare.


*China's Strategic Moves*

Troy and Ian elaborate on China's strategic investments in critical infrastructures like the Port of Manzanillo, potentially enabling the smuggling of fentanyl into the U.S. Rashad mentions the tariffs imposed on China as part of an attempt to curb this flow, but remains skeptical about its effectiveness.


*Societal and Political Insight*

The discussion isn't just about drugs and economics. Rashad provides a nuanced take on the fundamental differences in societal constructs between America and China, emphasizing China's self-sufficiency and unified national spirit. Conversely, America faces internal degradation, with its social fabric damaged by an overreliance on external sources for technology and goods.


*Social Media and National Security*

Our hosts discuss the role of social media apps like TikTok, contrasting its influence on American society with the restrictions placed on such apps in China. Ian and Rashad argue that the Chinese version of TikTok serves an entirely different purpose, possibly contributing to the "dumbing down" of American society to erode its competitive edge.


*Accountability and Political Landscape*

Finally, the hosts tackle the political accountability for America’s current state, pointing fingers at politicians from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s who may have sold the country short. This segment wraps up with a reflection on how deeply the U.S. has been infiltrated economically and socially, urging viewers to stay informed and accountable.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, the thing about it too is like this fit in all the biggest thing in the world.

0:05.0

Now, I am sensitive to drug abusers for sure.

0:08.5

But I also understand that a country's appetite for drugs will not change unless it's morally based.

0:16.2

Meaning, you look at the countries that have low drugs. These countries are not democratic countries.

0:24.6

They're not.

0:27.6

These countries are based on moral standards of society.

0:31.6

Like, even if they are democratically based,

0:33.6

it's still like Japan is a morally standard-based country. Saudi Arabia, the UAE. Like, you go to Asia,

0:42.3

these countries are based on moral standards that supersede military might. Japan doesn't even have a military, really. So we can do everything.

0:57.2

The war on drugs has never worked, and it never will work.

1:01.6

Because there's more...

1:02.5

Did it work for who is supposed to work for?

1:04.3

That's another...

1:04.9

I'm saying as far as stopping drugs in America.

1:06.8

Yeah.

1:07.0

It's not going to work.

1:08.3

You can send 20,000 troops to the border.

1:10.7

It's not going to work because Americans have an insatiable appetite for drugs.

1:16.0

Who planted that here, though?

1:17.5

And truth be told, you're sending troops to the wrong border because you're afraid of Jiji Ping.

1:23.4

Well, that's the part, right?

1:24.4

So when we do this timeline, right, you look at where, so fentanyl is the drug. Well, fentany the part, right? So when we do this timeline, right, or you look at where, so fit and all is the drug?

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