The Russian political and military leadership are not easy to fool. They know the drug trade fuels to U.S war in Afghanistan and drug trafficking is one of the means the U.S could destabilize Russia and particular Russian volatile Caucasus region. But the U.S ruling elite are less educated and less analytical than its Russian counterpart and after Zhukov used the military discourse and disinformation and disguise to destroy the Might army of the Third Reich, one shall never doubt that by nature Russians are three or four steps always ahead of the game and they have plans to respond to U.S attempt to encircle and destabilize Russia. Now, in Russia, joining the military is still associated with patriotic honour and young men who see each May March of the Patriotic War have symbolic more than material reason to join the army. There is no similar tradition in the United States. By and large, members of the working class join the U.S military not the defend their homeland but to acquire skills and cash to pay up college tuition. These men do not wish to die. But since the Iraq war things got rapidly bad for the U.S military since a mercenary can potentially make in a month or so the year’s salary of the ordinary soldier. With the declining economic opportunities, young men and formersoldiers can join mercenary firms and make lot of money to take care of their families. This arrangement serves the U.S ruling elite well since mercenary are apparently can commit mass slaughter without facing the consequences. In Russia, the military economy has never deeply penetrated the overall economy and Russia still has functioning industrial base and highly educated people. So Russia can defend itself and export weapons at a much cheaper cost to the society than the United States.

They have become diluted up top. This is going to blow up in their face. Drug lords have money, their own servants and black markets are always open. You have to cut off the supply.