War with Everyone, Including Ourselves

American Thinker ^ | 19 Nov, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

Subjugation is a deadly cocktail of fear and chaos.

You can’t fight what you can’t see. So allow me to ask a blunt question: How blind are we?

Talk of war is everywhere. A good number of military academics would tell you that WWIII began sometime between the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks and President Obama’s decision to use the international banking system to freeze out nations deemed insufficiently compliant with the West’s brand of “globalism.” The more that Washington, London, and Brussels have insisted that the “rules-based international order” empowers Western officials to confiscate foreign assets or disrupt normal currency transactions whenever target nations refuse to do what Western officials demand, the faster that adversaries such as China and Russia have worked to build financial institutions beyond the West’s control.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan involved numerous players who called neither country home. Islamic militants came from Africa, Europe, Asia, and across the Middle East. Arms brokers from China, Russia, and South American narco-states made money from the prolonged conflicts. After the Taliban effectively ended heroin production in Afghanistan, opium poppy cultivation spiked with the arrival of American troops. Since 2001, Afghanistan has dominated the global market for illicit drugs, supplying more than 90% of the world’s heroin.

A lot of that heroin made its way back into the United States. At the same time, the pharmaceutical industry hooked millions of Americans on legalized opioids. Stepping in to take advantage of Americans’ growing addiction to illegal heroin and legal pain medications, China partnered with Central and South American cartels to flood fentanyl into the country. China sees the drug-trade as a way to weaken American society while establishing both alliances and smuggling routes that allow its soldiers to penetrate the American heartland.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: drugs; globalism; leftism; war; warfare

[MtnClimber]

It does seem like we are in a nontraditional WWIII.

[plain talk]

“China partnered with Central and South American cartels to flood fentanyl into the country.

China sees the drug-trade as a way to weaken American society while establishing both alliances and smuggling routes that allow its soldiers to penetrate the American heartland.”

[Brian Griffin]

Circa 1900, an addict with enough money could walk into a pharmacy and buy a ceramic container labeled ‘HEROIN’ and have the pharmacist fill it with heroin, all without a prescription.

[Brian Griffin]

"Ye Hong et al. used benzylamine and methyl acrylate as starting materials, employing microwave radiation for Michael addition and Dieckmann condensation. They tested different microwave radiation times, powers, and temperatures. The optimal Michael addition conditions were set at a microwave power of 110-120 W, with a microwave reaction temperature of 50-55°C and a radiation time of 80 minutes. The best Dieckmann condensation conditions were set at a microwave power of 90-100 W, with a microwave reaction temperature of 70-75°C and a radiation time of 20 minutes. The final product, N-Benzyl-4-piperidone, was synthesized through decarboxylation by heating and hydrolysis."

https://www.guidechem.com/guideview/lab/n-benzyl-4-piperidone-synthesis-uses.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

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Addicts need to be able to obtain their daily fix in the relatively safe form of about two liters of opiate solution.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

World War Three started when North Korea with the support of the USSR and later the Red Chinese decided to invade South Korea.

It ended when the USSR fell.

War on Terror was World War Four.

World War Five might have started with Russia invading Ukraine or with Gaza attacking Israel on October 7th or it might not have happened yet.

Outlook cloudy. Check back later.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And you needed a prescription for aspirin.

[ChessExpert]

Agreed.

One thing that came to mind was an explosion leading to fire that killed about 1800 head of cattle in Texas in 2023. Grok helped refresh my memory. Grok rejected conspiracy theories based upon a review of such sources as Snopes and the FBI. Maybe, maybe not.

What seems beyond dispute is that US and European elites have decided on importing third world people, often Muslims, into their countries against the will of their own people. In general, western “democracies” seem intent on controlling their respective population. For example, Hillary Clinton still advocates a war on “disinformation.” Her certitude on what is information and what is disinformation runs strictly on party lines.