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Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
(www.middleeasteye.net)
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
The idea that there's an amount of heroin that can be used to purchase weapons grade nuclear materials concerns me even though I know it's just a high value illegal commodity.
No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
You don't think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor?
/s
Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
But none of this had to do with America?
The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.
RTFA
Department Energie Atomic.
It's because people have been getting high on Power.