imagine we have some more or someone who is this, we would show new people to the, the the at the end of the 18th century, britain began the illegal opium frayed in china. these hard drugs causing addiction and literally destroying the human body became a gold mine for businessmen from the foggy l. b. a. however, the ruling chinese dream dynasty tried to resist and to stop the illegal trade, which provoked the wrath of the london business community. in 1840 without

a declaration of war, the english fleet began to seize and plunder chinese coastal boards. sobar lee arm dead for lead, train chinese army was unable to provide adequate resistance. the jing empire was forced to hand hong, gone over to england and open it sports for trading the legal goods. in 1856, branch of the united states joined in the robbery of china. the anglo french troops defeated the chinese occupied basie and committed an unprecedented robbery. destroyed and blundered the wealth of the un meeting. you won the palace, the defeat of the jing dynastee and the do opium wars lead to the transformation of this. so let's deal empire into a semi colony of your, to be in state and started the age of humiliation. and the sale of opium took on collazo proportions and led to the horrible depths of millions of ordinary chinese,

the hello, i'm a know a chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. it's no secret that the us is the number one manufacturer and supplier of arms all around the world. hasn't gone contracts spring and billions of dollars annually to continue brutal wars by allied nations. nobody. that's an eye at these facts. but when the proliferation of these arms safe into the black market, the u. s. calls that. all right, let's get into the m o the, what's the difference between the pentagon and a black market arms traffic or some lights say nothing really, given the end result is the same death and destruction. but they'll tell you that

the former is done legally and on the books that they're accounted for. and those arms are for noble wars or causes maybe just protection or the tyrants. in fact, a more accurate comparison might be the c i a versus arms dealers. like say, convicted and now freed dealer victor boat. because when you really think about it, given the c, i as long as sort of ugly history of farming and surgeons within the countries, the us deans anatomy, america's top spike agency, is responsible for the proliferation of more off the books transfers of arms around the world than any one, traffic are. let's be clear about something. i am not promoting illegal arms trafficking in any way, shape or form. but we can't pretend the black market arms dealers or mafias or crime syndicates are the source of these arms. that dubious title belongs to the u

. s. military industrial complex, who break in hundreds of billions of dollars, year after year, and a foreign policy of aggression then benefits from continuing to r any and all conflicts around the world. now to discuss this complex web of arms trafficking will bring in someone who has seen just how all this stuff works. first hand dr. field, your raleigh is a retired c, a case officer and executive director of the council for the national interest. so thank you for joining us. so 1st, according to a 2017 report by rand europe concerning how small arms proliferate into the you, it says the us appears to be the most common source country for arms that are for sale on the dark web. they say 60 percent of fire arms listings are associated with products that originated out of the us. are we to assume that the sales are by individual sellers or is there perhaps

a criminal enterprise associated with some of these, such as like the mob or mafia is organized crime, things like that? well, i would say it's probably a combination of both. it's very easy to buy weapons in the united states in most states here in virginia, for example, if i wanted to go buy a military style, so called assault rifle, i could walk into town right now, and within 30 minutes have it. um yeah, these weapons of course can be to our military views. they can be taken and modified to fire or full automatic a by any goldsmith and they are readily available. there are more weapons of this type in the united states alone. then there are americans. so you can see we're talking about $300.00 plus 1000000 of these weapons floating around. and there are certainly organizations that are both criminal and that serve other purposes,

political purposes, perhaps in some cases that have easy access to these weapons. and if you're talking about getting them into your there are a lot of ways to get things in new york really. most of the eastern european borders are somewhat porous. and also europe is around to buy a lot of water. if you can get a 1000000 and a half emigrants in smuggle and to europe, you can certainly get us a webpage and into europe too. and that's what we're say. and for obvious reasons, it's difficult to get concrete numbers on just how much money is brought through black market arm sales or the dark web. uh, the latter is estimated to generate around a $100000.00 a month in just fire arms sales. but compared to the d o d sales numbers that are reported by the state department, those numbers are peanuts,

according to the state department, for an military sales are approximately $55000000000.00 annually. along with the direct to commercial sales under the bureau of political, military affairs, the directorate of defense trade controls, they approve approximately a $115000000000.00 a year in direct sales to for an allies and partners. and we're talking heavy military hardware like patriot missile batteries and javelins r, p g 's and so forth. now is the net result is the same. death and destruction. what's the difference between conflicts around the world being armed by traffickers or the d o d, a? well, actually they're, they're a lot of subtle differences show we say the d o, d weapons, once. interestingly enough, those numbers that you just provided. these are the known sales. these are sales that are approved by the us government. and uh,

basically uh or done by the us government. and once these weapons are in the hands of a ukrainian or need your option, uh, or a combination of, of the people these weapons could go anywhere. and uh, this is the real danger that i think they were missing here is that there are a lot of criminal sales or non ethical sales. how ethical i would describe as sales that are sold what and sold to a foreign country for their own defense, that sort of thing. or at least that's the justification. but the fact is, there are many other possibilities in terms of weapons being you know, set to places like up of pakistan where they are distributed in central asia. i think of all of the weapons that wind up in the hands of the libyan government. that which we then or through and these weapons wanda,

all over africa and are still making trouble enough. and look in syria, syria. we have a militia groups that are, are allied with the us star given access to these weapons. and i'm sure that this does not appear in any official report that your i would be allowed to read. and, and these weapons basically wind up in various places including in turkey, which is and they go out. so there's a, there's a, another statement, and these numbers, i think the numbers that actually relate to weapons, dispersions, dispersed souls around the world, the various groups to various countries to various individuals is much, much bigger than that. these numbers would suggest i don't. what about the role of the c i a in army various groups around the world, for example, in latin america during the 1980s. certainly some of those arms proliferated beyond the groups that the us initially armed or intended or more recently under obama.

the botched fast and furious scheme could any of these ca, issued arms have contributed to armed conflicts we're seeing today? oh, i think there's no question of that. obviously you can go back as far as the, the us attempt to get rushing out of as cabbage, them in which a number of terrorist groups, including all kind of were on trade and further equipped these weapons. some of them are still floating around this, this produces a whole chain of, of, of disasters. i had up in my own personal experience when i was just on bull. i was involved in a wrong contra. i don't know if you remember that, but it was a scheme to sell weapons to the radiance. this is post revolutionary, right. and the money coming from this was the, was like hitting money was, which was going to be kicked back to support the countries in the crop. and this

was illegal to sell the weapons to uranium. and it was the legal to be doing this with the cartridge, but we were doing it anyway. now i was the c r c i hey, officer on the ground, arranging for the flights that were going back and forth with the weapons in the money. and the are ready and leaders and uh, this was all done under orders for the national security council at that time. so a lot of the stuff that uh, is, is credited to the c, i assure the c i, it has the resources to do these things. but they do these things under orders of the national security council, which is indeed the right arm of the president. alright, filled are all the is staying with us, more of a spill in just a 2nd. coming up next finders keepers what happens when the us abandons a war effort and leaves behind billions of dollars in military hardware and weapons

. we'll discuss it when we return. sit tight, the m o will be right back. 2 the, the claims of the king of the belgians leopold the 2nd to the congo were finally authorized by the leading european countries in 18. 85. in the very heart of the african continent states under the rule of the belgian monarch was declared. since the beginning, the congo free state was total may have for the local population and functioned as a universal concentration camp. the majority of the population, including women and children,

were forced to work on the rubber plantations. those who failed to fulfill their quota were beaten and mutilated to keep the con, the least people under control. the king set up the so called forest bleak, which were punitive detachments that cast terror on the captured country and its inhabitants. fearing that their subordinates would simply waste bullets hunting for wild animals, the officers demanded that the soldiers gave an answer for every bullet used. and as proof presented a job hand of an african. it was not uncommon when drying to justify the use of the munition. the calling is to have your date of the hands of not only those who were dead, but also of those who were kept alive. the atrocious exploitation of the congo turned into to a real genocide. you know, late 20 years, the policy of the belgians laid into the depths of nearly 10000000 people alongside the holocaust. the genocide of the congo population is considered to be one of the

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manila chan filled urology, a retired c i a case officer has gracious lives. the gracious waste stuck around to talk more about the proliferation of us arms around the world. so felt, let's examine that hasty departure by the us military from afghanistan. we had an entire base their complete with chin, not helicopters, m raps transport vehicles, another very expensive, valuable military hardware. those are all now in the hands of the taliban, who the us state department labels a tara group. now in similar instances when the us leaves a conflict. so in or they say ends a war or military equipment, just sort of the spoils of war. and it's finders keepers and what happens with all of that stuff? well uh precisely is in the case of, of can understand if there's no kind of uh,

withdrawal that we surely and save the equipment. it's just been a bad indicator of gather stuff. they knew this was coming and they still didn't take steps to remove a lot of the equipment because they felt, hey, it was more expensive to remove it that believe it. and that is a kind of stupid judgment. but you know, that's what the disadvantaged ration was into. they were confused about what was happening and where i would go. and so now the taliban have the weapons and there are weapons probably all over the place that are going to, well we will regard as terrorists or some verse of groups and the sources of discharge with a weapon that could be accurate. because a lot of the weapons were in the hands of, of they asked in army which was believed to be under control and monitored and so and so forth. but that was a bit of affection. and so a lot of these, the soldiers uh, when did you and i did say celeste,

they just kinda dropped their weapons where they were, they went home. so i would assume a lot of these weapons have already gotten into the hands of people who we would prefer not to have the switch. so it's a, it's, it's kind of a problem with us foreign policy in general that they can't, the, can't seem to figure out what's coming up next week. and this is a manifestation of indeed war lords, proliferate. now presently, the us has been arming ukraine to continue what many call a proxy war with russia to a, to well, north of a $100000000000.00 artillery shells, guns, mid range, missiles, air defense systems, and so on. this is all in the 1st year of conflict. now to contrast the u. s. spent around $83000000000.00 to train an arm. the now failed asked in forces between the

year 2001 till the fall of cobble in 2021. we had an inner poll your oregon stock said this to the guardian regarding the massive amount of arms now going into ukraine. he said, quote, we can expect an influx of weapons in europe and beyond. we should be alarmed and we have to expect these weapons to be traffic not only to neighboring countries but to other continents. ringback make of his remarks as well. it says interesting comment and i would refer you to the recent development center in ukraine where we had the resignation of a senior spokesman of zaleski government. and we also had that uh, unfortunate uh helicopter crash. uh, there are sources that are saying right now that these people involved in this were all connected with stealing the weapons coming in and proliferating them. so this

is going on already turning this into cache. and this suspicion is that one of them, or some of them went too far, and there is a bit of a tit for tat going on in terms of the people who are involved with this process. so i think that's an interesting theory. and there is some evidence for it. and um, also, you know, we're talking about a ton of money either in, in the credits in cash and that sort of thing. and also with the weapons which are fully functionable, you can sell them anywhere. you could get a good price for them anywhere. and, you know, this is the kind of thing that i, i believe the comment that you're quoting girl was saying, look, these weapons are going to a lot of that. we're going to just cut loose and wants to lose the borders and used to your permeable, and uh, once you get them out of your up, there are all kinds of people in asia, africa, latin america,

quite willing to meet you halfway. do well, take them off your hatch. the problem is that once you sell a weapon or give a weapon or give it to a government or you give it to a group or you give it to an organization. so many different, this is, this is a, uh, they used to joke about how oil and stuff like that are, are fungible commodities, well weapons refundable quantities to, they have serial numbers and it's pretty obvious where they're made. but that doesn't mean that you know where that weapon isn't any point or who is using it. once it's out of your hands, it's a, it is free to go. weapons are fungible commodities, absolutely. now, according to slippery be stock home international peace research institute in 2020, they say the official global arms sales weren't valued, at least at a $112000000000.00 in that year alone. data for many places like this,

including official us numbers, it would appear. the us is responsible for arming much of the world. some uh, 40 percent of global arms sales comes from the d. o. d and distance 2nd place for russia coming in at about 27 percent of all the sales. is it then fair to say that the us is responsible for much of the bloodshed around the world, but the official sales also end up in black market trafficking. the yeah, absolutely. i don't think there's a question about it. as i say you can sell the, you can sell a 1000 machine guns to a very reputable buyer representing a government or something like that. but next week you don't know where those levels are going to be. and, and, and the fact is the united states has, by far the biggest military equipment industry or military industrial complex is generally referred to, which produces all of this stuff. so it's no surprise that most of the weapons that

are floating around in the world are american made. and i would, i would also add to the stock whole, the suggestion of, of the amount of money that is involved in this. i would say you should double that if you were to take it to the account, the black market, you might even wanna triple and last fil, is there anything else you think our international viewers should know about the proliferation of arms, perhaps in their own country. as well, i think the, the issue becomes one of the uh, let's not let the people know what we're doing. and i think that's a general rule of what goes on every. every major western european country has an honest industry. and the purpose of an ours industry is to show up it's and in those countries, if you're a citizen of,

of italy or france or germany or britain, you cannot bioweapon. so all of this stuff is basically made to supply your own military and your own military. but on the other hand, the rest of this stuff is got to be sold to make this a commercially viable. so you have a new built hypocrisy and built contradiction right here, which is the fact that, you know, the citizens of sure, probably not allowed to have weapons. but these weapons are being produced by other countries to be sold to other people elsewhere. who can boys, if you use? so this is a bit ridiculous. dr. phil geraldo retired c r, a case officer and executive director of the council for the national interest. thank you so much for sharing your insights. so as you can see, whether it's officials from a government selling the arms or individual traffickers, there's

a very fine line that separates the 2. but when your number one export is weapons of mass destruction, you become the raining lords of war. or that's going to do it for this week's episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you for tuning and we'll see you again next week to figure out the m o. the solutions may be able to turn to atrocities. another cons. united states of america is different wherever people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states, the,

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