Fentanyl - Chinese weapon against the West

How China challenges USA on drug front of ongoing World War

The Fentanyl pandemic is something much more profound than people may think. The Internet is full of scenes from several US cities with Fentanyl "zombies". This is a frame of video that our crew shot 3 minutes away from White House in Washington DC late March this year.

According to Documents published by US Congress library Fentanyl a synthetic drug’s death toll is counted in tens of thousands: 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl-related substances) may have resulted in more than 77,000 overdose deaths between May 2022 and April 2023.)

Keep in mind, that those are only overdose deaths counted officially. The real number could be much higher not only because it is difficult to link every case of death of this kind with a specific narcotic, but there are also other cases related to drug use, that cannot be counted just as a simple overdose. We are talking about huge scale of social problems that weakens the fabric of US society. And that posesa real threat not only to the United States, but because of the US global position of superpower that keeps the western civilization together, it poses the fundamental threat to the world as we know it today. So what Fentanyl really is? Ben Wethoff wrote a book about this drug: 

Fentanyl was invented in 1969 by a Belgian chemist, and he was looking for an alternative to morphine for hospital procedures like open heart surgery. And the benefit of fentanyl is that it came on much faster and also it went away faster. The problem is though, the same thing that makes fenanyl a great drug for hospital use makes it a bad drug for illicit use. And thats because with heroin if you take a dose, you wont nedd another one for most of the day. But fentanyl fades off so quickly that users have to re-up in two three hours.

Those properties make it a great product for the criminal organizations and great tool for a hostile activities of state players. When it comes to the Fentanyl properties it gets even better from the crime syndicate perspective and worse from the standpoint of our civilization.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid  that basically acts on the same receptors in the brain as heroin, morphine, opium, all that. The thing is, it’s about 50 times stronger than heroin, and only two milligrams of fentanyl is enough to potentially make someone overdose. I had been in the rave scene myself and never known ecstasy to be a particularly dangerous drug. So i went down the rabbit hole and learned that there was no pure MDMA really on the scene at all anymore, and all of the so-called ecstasy was bein adulterated with these new synthetic chemicals, and they’re called NPS, novel psychoactive substances. They were all made in a lab, and they were all made in China, and almost no one knew anything about them. So off i went and found that fentanyl was the most deadly among them all. (rmatczuk_westhoff_2)

According to the Attorney General Merrick GARLAND the nature of this threat is much more complicated than just a drug trafficking problem. The complexity of the supply chain involving the drug cartels goes far beyond the criminal organizations that used to make a living off the cocaine users for the last 30 or 40 years. This thing involves state players. Especially one state player that poses a multidimensional threat to the West - communist China: 

“We know that this network includes the cartels’ leaders, their drug traffickers, their money launderers, their clandestine lab operators, their security forces, their weapons suppliers, and their chemical suppliers,”said at a news conference. And we know that this global fentanyl supply chain, which ends with the deaths of Americans, often starts with chemical companies in China.”(rmatczuk_garland)

Ben Westhof shared results of his investigation. According to him, Fentanyl is a state run industry that operates in a place that we know from quite a different thing that costed millions of lives worldwide… The Wuhan. Hometown of so called COVID19:  

I was doing research into which companies were making these fentanyl precursors, and there were dozens and dozens of examples that came up in my searches. But as investigated each one, i realized that these weren’t individual companies. These were actually just shell companies of this larger conglomerate, and the name of it was Yuangcheng, and their headquarters were in Wuhan. I determined that they were selling more fentanyl precursors than any other company in the world.I was shocked to see the sales floor, where there were all, like, cubicles. It looked just like a regular Western office. They were basically selling the ingredients for this most dangerous drug like it was anything else.

The industry that produces Fentanyl analogues and precursors is not even trying to hide the nature of the process. Westhoff was invited to visit the sites in various places in communist China: 

We drove way out to the suburbs of Shanghai. I was really freaking out. The GPS on my phone didn’t work. But when we got there, i was surprised. It was basically just like a suburban office park. And he used a key fob to get in with the mechanical arm ro rhe parking lot. There was a big fountain. There werent guys with AK47s guarding the door. It was about five different rooms, fairly small labs, not very many employees, very kind of overpowering chemical smell when i walked in the door. But amount of drugs they were making was really staggering. They focused on these fentanyl analogs and also K2 and spice, known as synthetic cannabinoids. They had packaged these drugs up into one kilo baggies, and there were huge barrels full of these baggies ready to be shipped all over the world. It really spoke to the demand worldwide for these drugs because, remember only two milligrams of fentanyl is enough to make someone potentially overdose. 

The official data traces the problem back to 2019 when the issue was considered serious, but event though it was back then when the case became a point of interest of US based media and mainstream political debate, and despite the fact that China as a state was clearly marked as a source of the threat the problem is getting bigger and bigger. Today as we read in the Congressional Research Service paper it is obvious that the constant flow of this drug to US straight on the streets of New York, San Francisco, Washington DC and many many more is directly related to cooperation between the criminal organizations and the state player which is China even, when the direct supply of the product from China doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. China provides the components, equipements precursors and analogues… 

Prior to 2019, China was the primary source of U.S.-bound illicit fentanyl, fentanyl-related substances, and production equipment. PRC traffickers supplied fentanyl and fentanyl- related substances directly to the United States via international mail and express consignment operations. Trafficking patterns changed after the PRC imposed class- wide controls over all fentanyl-related substances, effective May 2019. Today, Mexican transnational criminal organizations are largely responsible for the production of U.S.-consumed illicit fentanyl, using primarily PRC- sourced materials

The main route that this poison is traveling to US goes through the America’s southern border. As the main source of this threat is China, we should look at this not only as a social problem, but also as an issue of international security relations. A point of interest for the western intelligence community. This is s a hostile and deadly operation against the United States with consequences much more profound than the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of people who die on the streets of US cities each year. This kind of drug pandemic destroys the social fabric of society. The foundation of every democratic state.

And that poses a direct threat to the US as a state and its role as a global superpower.