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Japanese Yakuza leader admits trying to sell nuclear material to DEA agents posing as Iranian generals
(www.middleeasteye.net)
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Didn't realize you can get high on nuclear materials. Tf is the DEA doin?
It's because people have been getting high on Power.
Department Energie Atomic.
The article says they were purchasing these items in exchange for shipments of heroin and methamphetamine.
ENTRAPMENT! ENTRAPMENT! /s
No shit. This sounds like the DEA overstepping its bounds.
RTFA
Drugs were supposed to be payment for the nuclear material, which is why it makes sense.
But none of this had to do with America?
The article says the drugs were being sent to the US.
You don't think Americans have business meddling between two completely separate sovereign countries? What are you some sort traitor?
/s