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      Bold strategy entering into a hot conflict with basically the only manufacturing economy in the world not explicitly trying to join BRICS.

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        On the one hand, it’d be so fucking funny if they made a JFK sequel but on the other that’d be yet another crime for the CIA to get away with while they blame the USSR China for it

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          Hmm, I think starting with the getaway plane for the Kiki Camarena affair should get you started on the rabbit hole of the cia. The origins of the Zeta cartel is also a starting point.

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          The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine or Operation Gladio by Paul L. Williams are good overviews

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              Oh sorry I thought you meant criminal cartels in general, not just the Mexican ones. They’re mentioned a little in the Valentine book but only in passing for Gladio. If you can get the translation, Los Señores del Narco does go into a bit more detail and I haven’t read it but La CIA, Camarena y Caro Quintero by Esquivel apparently goes into it.