Articles I have read said it was a 2.1 billion dollar a year empire. But they don’t say exactly how a simple drug could collapse a long standing regime?
Articles I have read said it was a 2.1 billion dollar a year empire. But they don’t say exactly how a simple drug could collapse a long standing regime?
You’ve misunderstood something. The Assad regime in Syria produced the majority of the world’s black market supply of an almost universally illegal stimulant. The regime fell because proliteriat revolutionaries leveraged sustained physical violence.