U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced a new Counter-Fentanyl Strike Force to crack down on the illicit financial networks supporting the cartels and drug traffickers that help funnel the drug into the United States on Monday, December 4.
“The Treasury Department Counter-Fentanyl Strike Force will allow us to bring the Department’s unrivaled expertise in fighting financial crime to bear against this deadly epidemic,” Yellen said in the same statement. “Treasury will use every tool at its disposal to disrupt the ability of drug traffickers to peddle this poison in our country.”
It sounds pretty benign for anyone not involved in the illegal drug trade until you read, “The Strike Force will identify additional disruption opportunities for key money laundering avenues…” “…especially those that rely heavily on cryptocurrency.”
It is one of the ways the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury will usher the nation into the Central Bank Digital Currency era. They will declare all cryptocurrency illegal in their so-called effort to battle the Fentanyl epidemic.
And now, you should understand why the borders must remain open to cartel traffic and why the U.S. needs to suffer through this deadly epidemic. It is for our national good.
You can mark my words.
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