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Stanislav Krapivnik says that the US government benefits from the drug trade and that the major US banks launder the drug money.
He argues that the US government’s actions, such as the invasion of Afghanistan, have significantly contributed to the global drug trade.
Domestically, the asset forfeiture system, which allows police to keep up to 80% of the value of assets seized during a drug bust, incentivises local police departments to allow the drug trade to continue in their towns. The police’s share of “bags of cash” from the sale of drugs is worth more than the share from confiscated drugs.
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Stanislav Krapivnik is a Russian-American who was born in Donbass during the Soviet era and migrated to the United States as a child. He served in the US Army and participated in NATO missions in Romania, but left the service during NATO’s intervention in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, after which he returned to Russia. He is now a military affairs commentator and political analyst based in Russia, where he is known for his strong pro-Russian stance.
Krapivnik posts commentaries in the form of a podcast titled ‘In the Eyes of Truth’, in which he offers “political, military and social analyses of the real world.” On Friday, he published a commentary on who is behind the international drug trade. What has promoted this podcast is the recent events concerning Venezuela.
On 2 September, the US military conducted a precision strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. The strike targeted a boat allegedly operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, which President Trump described as a designated foreign terrorist organisation acting under the direction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The operation, carried out in international waters, is part of a broader military effort by the Trump Administration to combat drug trafficking in the region, including the deployment of seven US warships and a nuclear-powered submarine.
Explaining why he believes the US is targeting the drug supply rather than the drug demand, Krapivnik said, “The US government, on different levels, makes money off the drug trade.”
“All major US banks would collapse if they were denied drug money, big drug money. That’s where it gets laundered. It all goes right back to the US and gets laundered, and they’re making money off of it,” he said. “So, there’s already an incentive system in the US financial system … to support a drug trade.”
Related: Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor, The Guardian, 13 December 2009
As well as big finance, Krapivnik believes the deep state is also behind the drug trade. He mentioned two Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) cover-ups: Vietnam and the Iran-Contra affair.
To get drugs out of Vietnam, “The CIA was narco trafficking inside the corpses of dead American soldiers, heroin,” he said.
The Iran-Contra affair, Krapivnik said, “possibly helped spark the crack epidemic in the US. That’s where the CIA was importing cocaine; it was selling the cocaine in the US. Getting money from that, buying weapons from Iran, of all places, with that money and then delivering those weapons to the Contras to fight the El Salvadoran government.”
Related:
- Drug Feared Sent In Bodies Of G.I.’s, The New York Times, 17 December 1972
- A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking, Institute for Policy Studies, 7 May 1998
- What are the facts behind the story of the CIA bringing cocaine into the USA? Reddit, 5 February 2025
- Smoke and mirrors: Afghanistan’s illicit drug economy after the opium ban, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, 17 February 2025
Then there was the US invasion of Afghanistan. The US set up an army in Afghanistan, which collapsed in a week. Most of this US-Afghan army were “druggies,” he said.
Several times, Russia “asked the US to stop the flow of heroin out of Afghanistan because as soon as the US took over in Afghanistan, they brought in the new equipment, the fertilisers, and you started having record [poppy] crops. Almost every single year was a new record crop during the American occupation of Afghanistan,” Krapivnik said. “There are literally photos of American soldiers guarding opium fields, poppy fields.”
These drugs were finding their way into Russia and then into Europe. When Russia asked the US to stop facilitating the drug trade into Russia, the answer from NATO was “Oh, we don’t want to upset the locals.”
Some of the heroin went into the illicit drug trade, but not all of it. There were record poppy crops. So, where did it go? “It went to the US, except it went legally to the US and it got stamped out in pills written out by prescription,” Krapivnik said. What prescriptions? Morphine. Morphine is primarily made from the opium poppy.
“And those doctors were getting kickbacks from those prescriptions, writing those pills left and right,” he added. People then become addicted, the doctor gets nervous that he’s going to be caught for over-prescribing and tells his “patient,” usually a middle-class person, “Hey, you’ve got a problem, you need to go check yourself into rehab.” “And these people, mostly, are going to the street and buying heroin now. Some of which was laced, by the way, with crack,” Krapivnik explained.
The Taliban took over in Afghanistan, the heroin supply dried up and Fentanyl became the new drug trade.
“The Taliban came in and they burned the fields and now they’re growing wheat or other consumer crops, corn, etc. They’re not growing poppies and heroin,” Krapivnik said, explaining that the only place poppies are grown in Afghanistan now is in the northeast part of the country. “It’s backed by some mysterious forces. They’re holding out,” he said. “They’re still growing poppies up there, exporting morphine and heroin.”
But in the US, the morphine and heroin have all dried up and “in comes Fentanyl,” he said. “Fentanyl has a big splash because, you know, one hit wonder and you’re hooked” and “people OD on it a lot faster than they OD on even the really clean heroin … but it earns a lot of money.”
He referred to a PBS documentary that first aired about 18 years ago, which asked why US border police, the sheriff’s deputies in small towns, don’t stop the continuous inflow of drugs. “It’s quite simple, actually. It’s money. It’s all about money,” he said.
The system incentivises police to make sure the drugs keep flowing. Krapivnik explained what he meant.
“When the drug dealer comes in, so he gets caught, the drugs get burned, the cop may get his photo in the paper. The police get 80% of the value of whatever property was used in the criminal act. So, they get a car, they get probably an old car, maybe a pistol and some old clothes [out of the bust].
“Now, [if] they stop one or two of these drug dealers from leaving the US when he’s got a bag full of cash in his trunk – one or two stops like that and they fill up their budget. Couple more stops and they’re getting bonuses. So, the whole incentive programme is very much against the average US citizen. It’s set to make sure the drugs keep flowing. And that’s the whole problem in the US, top to bottom.”
Related: What Happens to the Money Seized in Civil Asset Forfeiture, Asset Forfeiture Attorney
Krapivnik believes the drug trade suits the US government; “they don’t mind” that it’s happening. “As long as there is demand for drugs … there will be suppliers of drugs. And that gives them an excuse to go into various countries like Venezuela – which also has gold, diamonds, [and] oil, [the] biggest reserves in the world – and try to set up their own people or try to basically raid and rape [the country of its resources].”
“The US government,” he said, “lives and dies by drugs. And the first and foremost who are going to get pistol-whipped by those drugs are their own people. And it doesn’t mind. The elites do not mind.”
You can watch Krapivnik’s podcast on who is behind the drug trade below.
If the video above is removed from YouTube, you can watch it on Rumble HERE.
Featured image: US military kills 11 with missile strike on boat ‘carrying drugs’ from Venezuela, Independent, 3 September 2025
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