A lack of trust and the whack-a-mole nature of stamping out the chemicals used to make the drug help explain why the war against fentanyl has been so intractable.
The article discusses the escalating trade war initiated by Donald Trump with hefty tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China. These moves have economic implications globally. Joe Biden continues some of these policies,
Hunter Biden dropped a lawsuit against a former Trump aide because he told the court he could not afford it. Biden is continuing to press his lawsuit against the IRS whistleblowers who put a public spotlight on the DOJ's mishandling of the criminal case against him.
Given this backdrop, the U.S. needs to return to its old grand strategy, which helped the West win the Cold War by driving a wedge between Moscow and Beijing. Ending the Ukraine war would also enable the U.S. to reallocate military resources from Europe to the Indo-Pacific, where its global primacy is truly at stake.