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As the Euro seeks to establish itself as an alternate currency to the US dollar - a healthy competition that I believe would diversify and strengthen the world's economy - you here in Europe should take note of leaders like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who has opposed America's "Plan Colombia." Just recently the European Union voted unanimously, with one abstention, to oppose this new Vietnam War. If South America is to resist this war it will need strong economic support to pull away from US domination and the influence of the Central Intelligence Agency.
This brings to light what I consider to be an emerging determinant of economic and political realties in this era of globalization - geography. I have noticed that in recent years the drug trade is following businesslike principles that tend to reduce transportation and distribution costs. The American drug market is now predominantly supplied by cocaine and heroin from South America. Europe and Russia have been increasingly supplied by heroin from the Golden Crescent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And the Asian drug market is receiving most of its supplies from Southeast Asia. We are seeing less and less large scale smuggling over long routes and a trend toward efficient and more cost-effective management of the trade that produces liquid, hard currency. Just before coming to this conference I read in the Associated Press, Agence France Press and other reliable sources that the Taliban has recently eradicated most of its 300 ton opium crop in Afghanistan. If true, I view this as a form of economic warfare against Russia because it would drive opium production more into Southeast Asia and Colombia. However, I now suspect that this will result in a shift of opium production to the Caucasus under the Kurds which will see an increase in smuggling through Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. I should note that both the American Vice President Richard Cheney and the designated Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage are members of the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Such a move would have the effect of drastically shortening smuggling routes and costs into Western Europe and bypassing unstable areas of the Balkans. I have received additional reports that Uzbekistan is now awash in the opium poppy and, as in the US with the CIA, that Russian military and intelligence agencies facilitate the trade as a means of protecting access to hard currency. The point here is not that the US it totally evil or the only country doing these things. But the US is far and away the most advanced nation when it comes to the use of such methods to achieve superiority. As Khazin has noted the US and Britain and Germany started the conflict in Kosovo in 1999 to stave off a collapse of western markets following the Asian collapse of 1997-8. Now Colombia is a last-ditch effort to protect the US markets and European opposition is jeopardizing that plan. |
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