The British East India Company, before they became the Raj, had one perennial problem. They had to use British sterling silver to buy spices from India. That's a major current account deficit in modern terms. The goods pre-Industial revolution Britain produced, mostly Woolens, you couldn't really sell in tropical India. So the sahibs of the company developed now known as the carry trade. This would produce opium in India, ship it to china and convert the declining Qing dynasty into addicts making huge profits. Those profits would then be used to buy tea and spices in India to ship back to Europe; Economic imperialism via addictive drugs; fast forward three centuries and welcome to the world of NARCO terror. It's not a Colombian plot, more a Pakistani one. South American countries have become infamous as drug factories; the biggest one in the world if controlled and operated by Pakistan. The opium comes for Afghanistan, where the ISI and their Taliban puppets run a 3 billion dollar industry that keeps terrorism afloat. For years, we've been talking about Udta Punjab. Not the just the movie, the fact. Ever wonder where the drugs are coming for? Are there some swathes of poppy fields in India that we don't know about? Are the Colombians doing so intercontinental couriers? The reality is they're coming from Pakistan. With cops on the take, India's youth is slowly being poisoned. With every Indian the Pakistanis get addicted, that's one less productive person in India, one less recruit to serve the country and the profits fund the terror. The Punjab CM has raised the flag on this potent cocktail. The security agencies on the ground are now taking this with dead seriousness. It's not a social or socialite problem, it's fast becoming a national security problem. What do we do? Here's what we know, then let's talk.
