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That purpose was to make money doing what they've always done as cheaply and efficiently as possible. Synthetics like fentanyl are so much easier and cheaper to produce than other drugs that the only surprising thing is that it didn't take off until 2014.
If you're wondering if 80,000 customers dying a year is bad for business, the answer is no because they're making more money selling pills than they ever made from heroin because people think pills are safer and fentanyl only lasts a couple of hours so customers buy more of it. The DOJ is playing this card for geopolitical reasons. Same with the FBI now supporting the lab leak from China theory on COVID. There is nothing serious at all when it comes to the US Govt agencies, everything is propaganda in service to the big game.
U.S. Government Helped Rise of Mexican Drug Cartel: Report
CIA Assets and the Rise of the Guadalajara Connection
House Hearing, 111 Congress
As of Dec 2017, Augustine Carstens is the current Int'l banking cartel boss of bosses over in the tower of Basel, aka Bank for International Settlements (BIS) leading the global charge for CBDCs.
From summer 2021, 1 min esplainer straight from Agustin Carstens, the head of the BIS:
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell