The Syrian regime is looking at this whole landscape and thinking that they can accomplish both. They can have their cake and eat it too, says Peter Bergen. The same kind of line of thinking has started to really affect a lot of other geopolitical developments as well," he adds.
New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose explains how captagon, a drug you may have never heard of, is propping up genocidal regimes in the Middle East.
What We Discuss with Caroline Rose:
- What is captagon? Where did it originate, what are its effects, and why don't we hear about it in the United States?
- How captagon — with a potential trade value of over $5.7 billion annually — has transformed Assad's Syria into a Mediterranean narco-state.
- Who uses captagon on such a massive scale, and how is it manufactured and smuggled across borders?
- Why is Syria allowed a seat at INTERPOL, the organization established to reign in international crime — like the captagon trade?
- What can be done to stem the tide of captagon and prevent it from expanding its range and influence even further?
- And much more...
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