DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
- The Order directs the Attorney General to immediately pursue criminal charges, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances in fentanyl trafficking cases.
- The Order directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or supporting the manufacture, distribution, and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals.
- The Order directs the Secretary of War and Attorney General to determine whether the Department of War should provide enhanced national security resources to the Department of Justice as necessary during an emergency situation involving a weapon of mass destruction.
- The Order directs the Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to update their chemical incident response-related directives to include the fentanyl threat.
- The Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to identify fentanyl smuggling networks using WMD and nonproliferation related threat intelligence.
STOPPING FENTANYL FROM POISONING OUR PEOPLE: President Trump is unleashing every available tool against the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.
- Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic, claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
- Just two milligrams of fentanyl—equivalent to 10-15 grains of table salt—is considered a lethal dose.
- Cartels and Foreign Terrorist Organizations use fentanyl profits to fund assassinations, terrorism, and insurgencies while waging armed conflict over trafficking routes and other facets of their operations.
- The potential for fentanyl to be weaponized for concentrated, large-scale terror attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the United States.
- By designating illicit fentanyl as a WMD, President Trump is ensuring the full weight of the Federal government is focused, coordinated, and mobilized to confront fentanyl as the deadly chemical weapon it is.
__________
Everyone can see the logic behind this.
If you can see this, can you also see that clandestine terrorists have been poisoning our young people for many decades?
They have.
Military strategy is unbounded.
Why young people?
Because it is easy to do and get away with.
And it can incapacitate them for life, thus degrading and demoralizing their communities.
This is the largely unknown story of the West since the end of WW2.
Fentanyl strikes whole populations, largely indiscriminatingly.
Droves of clandestine military operatives, choose their victims and attack them singly or in small groups.
Their victims are first placed on ‘lists’; then they are attacked by an operative unrelated to the person who put the victim on the list.
It is difficult to even notice a poisoning or lobotomy has occurred.
And close to impossible to catch the perpetrator(s).
You cannot understand military strategy or history or the world we live in today without understanding how savage and secretive military strategies can be.
There are numerous intellectuals who decry the fall of the West based on ‘pathological altruism’ (true enough), the ‘nepotism’ of our enemies (true enough), ‘infiltration’ into Western societal high-ground (true enough).
But none of them, so far, has the street-smarts to see the highly consequential and lethal battle being waged covertly against our most promising young people, including our children. ABN
American Buddhist Net 