Could be.
Hadn’t considered the supply angle.
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My comment stems from activity in Washington DC the first or second month POTUS took office. Supposedly “mass arrests” in D.C. which Youtubers said were low level drug dealers, guns, gangs and at the time, were thought to be the rollup of the “foot soldier” (i.e., “expendables”) of those who serve the cabal. Don’t know if it was true then or now, but the idea makes sense to me.
I remember reading something about that - so many arrests,not just in DC area, of MS-13 and other drug/etc gangs - was really hampering the elites’ drug money flow, trafficking $, and hired hit men etc.