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I'm gonna be honest with you, I was quite critical after reading the thumbnail. I'll give props where props are due and I have to compliment most of the content presented as being quite correct. And especially I was surprised with the amount of actual local footage that was used, which I didn't know was used to such extent by this channel. But there are a few things where you just missed the mark. First of all the claim in the thumbmail and throughout the video that Belgium is 'en route' to becoming a narco-state is of the charts absurd.The situation is not good but never seriously goes to the extent to make such absurd claims as to Belgium becoming a narco-state. Nor is it truly seriously beleived by any reasonbable person in Belgium. And I have to say it doesn't suit this channel to resort to such despicable click-bait. Secondly I'm dissapointed in the fact that you made over-extensive and at the minimum misleading generalisations about Belgian politics to the subject of drug-trafficking. It's dissapointing that this channel shoud resort to such sketchy claims just to fill up a video. Using this advise I hope you can correct your course in the future. And let this be a lesson to stick to more theoretical (and less click-baitable) arguments. And to, at the very least, also use more detailed (local) research and experts, before making questionable remarks to fill-up time. I was drunk at the time of writing of this piece, so that can only tell you how even more critical I would be if I saw this tomorrow morning sober. So gear up, man up and be (even) better tomorrow!
No one feels unsafe in Antwerp, all of this does not impact public life at all. Go to any poverty area in any big city in the world, you are at risk of being mugged and harassed. Antwerp is just a tourist place, super safe, even the poor areas.
There were 300+ narco terrorist attacks in Antwerp last year. Mostly hand grenades and full automatic drive by shootings. Innocent elderly people have had their houses shot bc kartels tipped off the wrong adress. A small child has been killed by automatic fire. Cars have been burned out. Do you live in Antwerp? How old are you? How many decades of experience do you have saying this? You know nothing.
I've recently moved to Limburg, a region of the southern Netherlands really close to Belgium, and it has indeed struck me, the simple availability of most heavy drugs around here
@@deadlypanter2048 You aren’t well informed. There’s a Limburg in both countries & they have the same accent. Lot of people from The Netherlands consider them as Belgians since they have a soft “G”
There is no solution to drug trafficking so long as there is demand on one side and supply on another. If Belgium really did crack down 'enough', the trade would simply move to another nation. If all of Europe cracked down sufficiently to raise prices, it would only make the transport more lucrative.
I live in Antwerp, this is true. A solution doesn’t excist. But that doesn’t mean we should just not do anything about it. Recently a 12 year old girl was shot dead by mistake, are you suggesting we should just accept things like this? Please just shut up if you don’t know what you are talking about.
@@pipebomber04 Surely it is fine and only minor. It just adds to the pile of alcoholics, smokers, workaholics, suger addicted people... see... nothing to worry about. And good to know that the politicians consume drugs as well... I mean... that explains A LOT
@@pipebomber04 Lots of people don't seem to realize why governments criminalized the use of cocaine and opium over 100 years ago; they were trying to reduce the use of the drugs due to their negative effects on the health of the people. Of course, when the Chinese Emperor tried to outlaw opium in China, the Brits would not stand for that, given how much money they made dealing opium in China.
Like your country is so innocent I wonder who arms the cartels and also in what country are those weapons made which happens to also arm the cartels I can tell it sure as hell ain't Mexico
This also goes hand-in-hand with the massive production off synthetic drugs in the Netherlands. 90% of all mdma is produced there. Which means there was is an established distribution network very close by
I almost don't want to believe that today, with all the information that is out there, some people actually still believe that playing "tough on drug traffickers" leads us anywhere. I'm quite shocked that they actually do. And thus it will go on and on and on...
As a Belgian, I see the 'war on drugs' rhetoric works even with those exact words. Even the tougher punishments for users. At this point I fear our best option is to be creative and undercut the prices of the criminals, by continuing the pressure to make their operations more expensive, and at the same time strike a deal with a stable west-African country to produce cheaper, organic legal cocaine with a fair trade label. Who is going to want to buy junk from a criminal if you can legally buy better stuff? After initial investments it would bring a massive profit to the government too.
When I lived in Antwerp I saw many news regarding that problem and what De Wever's answers to that. TBH, it won't work. While is normal and necessary to put more police and law enforcement personnel in the port, that is not the way to end that problem; that is a war the State can't win, no matter how many armed personnel is on the streets and the port. De Wever might be well intentioned (most likely due his nationalist politics and conservative mind) but that will only lead to more violence, more corruption and less control. None can expext winning a social, economic and public health problem by the force. What you see there is human weakness and you can't kill that with a gun.
Unfortunately the only way thew would ever be convinced it is not going to work is to put a bullet in every skull and see it happen again afterwards - then going after the new ones assuming they didn't go far enough. The shooters just often underestimate the number of bullets they would need - even when they assume there are millions. If they aren't willing/able to reduce demand or exterminate supply it will just keep spiraling forever. It's almost like everyone learned a different wrong lesson on the American Prohibition, assuming anyone learned anything at all.
I'm against people using drugs, but criminalization just doesn't work. The harder you crack down on it, the more lucrative it becomes for those willing to risk trafficking it. There is no perfect solution. Just gotta educate the public on how destructive/expensive it can be for certain people who can't control it once it becomes an addiction.
As a Belgian myself, I must admit that the drug problems within our borders are getting quite concerning, so are the political problems. Whatever is tried, it doesn't seem to end. De Wever will most likely fail in his attempts. In my eyes, only Van Quickenborne (our Justice Minister) is capable and competent enough to solve these issues.
From what i hear Antwerp & Rotterdam has the same problem, they cannot scan every container. Even from high risk countries. The ports would grind to a hold...
Why do you think van Quickenborne can solve this? I am sorry to say but he is pretty incompetent, maybe less incompetent than some others but still in over his head.
Have we learned nothing from the war on drugs? Prohibition never works and it only harms the end user and empowers the underworld. Legalize weed instead and prevent more people from using heavy drugs.
Their has never been Found more cocaïne in sewer water than there is in Belgium. I'm born and raised in this shit hole and have seen more than enough to judge the situation. Crimes, corruption, migration, drugs, unemployment,... The list goes on. All of this while we are the 2nd highest taxed country, explain that.
Almost correct about the flamenco, but the weaver (pun intended) is the biggest part of the problem. A barking dog doesn't bite or attacks, only adds to chaos. A bit like unintended maskirovka.
a few sidenotes from an antwerp resident. 1. The problem has not only grown, but swifted from rotterdam to antwerp because of the hard measures from the rotterdam mayor. 2. Bart de wever ( mayor of antwerp ) is really doing everything he can to solve this problem. Believe me, he takes it very seriously. 3 * personal opinion * I think the problem is gonna swift from antwerp to another port , just as it swifted from r'dam to antwerp because of the tighter security in antwerp. i know for example that the security in the ports of spain and greecy is practicly non existing... 4. The balkan maffia is controling the trade route, but the north african maffia is doing the dirty work on the streets. Extra: they found a chopped up body this morning in antwerp, probably connected to drug trafficing
Spain USED to be the gateway for South American and North American drugs into Europe, yet, for some reason, those same drug cartels shifted to central Europe... Why would that be? Romenia will be the next uncontrolled gate for trafficking in Europe. the key to shut down traffic is to make sure that the port workers are kept on a severe control monitoring system, cctv cameras in the ports, unauthorized vehicles need to be invested, the port workers need to be evaluated every few months for external signs of wealth that could not be explained by their salary. central Europe is a lot society that is a lot more anonymous than Spain, countless drug smuggling operators were shut down by Spain over the last 30 years.
@@juliusaugustus791 Yes it does. if you go to any search engine and type "guardia civil Narcotráfico detenido" you will find thousands of news of gang members arrested in Spain, if you make a similar search like "politie drugshandel opgepakt" you will not find as many news about it...
The balkan mafia doesn't control the main route for cocaine through North-Africa. That's completely controlled by Moroccans. The routes through Antwerp are controlled by both Balkans and Moroccans. Saying that Moroccans are "small fish" is the reason why they were able to grow so significantly in the past decade while no one was noticing it.
Why don't they just legalize it? The US's war on drugs led to exactly nowhere in 30 years so at least from tax income they could spend on prevention, rehabilitation and good quality control. Everybody wins, especially the customer!
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If you can't control it....legalize it! Educate people about the dangers of drugs! Create centers for help and support for users. Tax it! All the illegal activity is going to vanish!
... and then the organized crime will find other ways of getting easy money. Don't think they will just let their head down and go and work a 9 to 5 job. There's trafficking, fake medication, internet scams, etc. But, something has to be done.
so if theres a demand for something supply doesn't cease. decriminalised and education health, follow up services is a better option. busting people making criminals of them hasnt worked so far nor has it over the ages. thank you.
Where there is a demand a supply will appear. The only way to win "the war on drugs" is to stop fighting it. Legalize it, regulate it, tax it, and apply the tax revenue to recovery programs for people who have problems with it.
Really minor detail but the pronunciation is killing me lol "w" in Flemish Dutch is more or less pronounced like an English w so it's not "Antverp" or "De veever" but "Antwerp" and " De Wayver" (following English phonetic rules).
Apart from the radical terrorists in Brussels. The Albanian and Moroccan drugsmaffia in Antwerps, the communist terrorists (CCC) and our right wing parties, yes we are indeed boring...
legalize drugs, sell them offically and the black market goes bust. it could be easy. with legalized drug stores the controll of the product would be controlled and he people that take the drugs could be helped... but a "war on Drugs" sounds beter I guess
Personal story on this: The garage on the ground floor of my dads apartment in Hoboken (district of Antwerp) was sieved by bullets about a year ago. In the 10 years he has lived there, the "company" that rents the garage has changed names about 5-6 times. At the beginning it were cleaning companies, then it changed to logistics. As far as I've seen there was never a lot of stuff in the garage. Just some closets, a table and some chairs. There is however a very fancy security camera outside that is pointed right at the garage door... I always thought something shady was going on in there, then the shooting proved my point. Still wonder what it is though. A company simply for money laundering doesn't explain the camera outside. What do you people think? Meeting place? Storage of weapons/drugs?
As a Belgian, dead accurate video, these days in Antwerp granades are being exploded almost every day, de wever blames vivaldi, vivaldi says measures are being taken, the only thing about this video that could be better is the pronounciation of de wever, it's de wever not de vive
The US did this nationwide for decades, throwing over a trillion dollars at trying to stop the drug trade. It has ZERO EFFECT. Please don't make the same stupid mistake, just legalize drugs and use the profits to help those who abuse them. You end violence and obtain the resources to help those who struggle with drugs.
@@tylernorby4939 Help those who abuse them ? If those who abuse hard drugs do not want to stop.... but keep hurting people around them (whether family member or complete strangers)... it might lead to other problems.
As a belgian myself i honestly think it is. I live in a city that used to be safe but now i see heroin needles and cocaine bags everywhere on the floor now
Do you realize the absurdity of your statement? You are misrepresenting the definition of a narcostate. In n narco-states, drugs will seldom be intercepted by the authorities, simply because they are so corrupt that they let drugs go through, So the more drugs are being intercepted the less of a narcostate Belgium is. You should be worried when no or hardly any drugs are intercepted in world-class ports.
Indeed. Narco-States are active participants in pushing the drugs as the politicians are often on the payroll of the cartels. Mexico better fits that description than Belgium.
Fairly accurate piece but 2 things you failed to mention. The gangs conducting war in the streets of Antwerp are mainly of Maroccan origin both in Belgium and the Netherlands. The violence is also mainly between gangmembers though collateral damage is increasing rapidly. The second is the new initiative from the goverment to heavely penalise the end users. With fines around 5K. This last measure is a good one but with limited effect considering how much drugs floods on to the rest of Europe too…
You forgot the awefull power of the mocromaffia. The things here in Netherlands are probaly worst. Undermining the Institutions of the State: goverment/ locale, Justice, Lawyers and Press. Regulare Police is doing nothing anymore. Only units of DSI, sometimes BSB and AT’s
It’s not only more control at Spain’s ports. A lot of cocaine was coming through Odessa, so much that nobody knows the approximate amount, but know with the war going on it has become too dangerous/expensive, so an alternative must have been found.
I seriously cannot handle the music in your videos Can't you just talk without all of this overly loud and dramatic music? This isn't an action film. It's an opinion piece.
legalize it, tax it,and thus control the distribution points and areas where u can sell it... not perfect, i know, but it is better than the system we have now...
Duterte's hardline drug policy seems to yield results, by introducing the death penalty for anyone involved in the supply of hard drugs. If the death penalty is too much for Belgians, it could be a very serious automatic conviction, and banishment to a remote place they wont want to go. The sorts of products that are imported from South American countries should probably go to specialist processing centres where their unpacking can be monitored.
The Philippines' legislative blocked the Death Penalty and thus capital punishment is still not allowed there. However, drug cartel's footprint was severely decreased due to very harsh measures implemented such as firing thousands of port and police officials suspected of drug involvement, zero tolerance police raids, etc. Exposing hundreds of names in public of politicians and police and military generals linked to drugs helped a lot in the severing ties between cartel's and corrupt government officials.
Duerte has the most extreme war on drugs, he does what he wants with no regards for the law. His results: drugs have halved, that’s it.. with government kill squads death penalties, harsh prison time for users,.. The results of all this are pathetic. War on drugs is idiotic, just let the pharma indusrty take over the drug market and tax the hell out of them.
@@gamercatsz5441 Really? Were you in the Philippines from 2010-2022? Duterte's War On Drugs resulted in more than 1 million people who voluntarily surrendered, are alive, and went through free rehabilitation. Tens of thousands arrested drug suspects that are alive and in jail. 7000 deaths due to violent resistance during police arrestd and raids at a cost of several hundred law enforcement and militsry deaths. The War on drugs greatly reduced the supply of methampethamine (major drug in circulation) in the country and resulted in 40-60% decrease in crime rate. This is the reason why the old man got consistent very high approval rating throughout his presidency. Duterte's war on drugs will look like peanuts compared the one engaged in the US, Mexico, and the rest of latin america which resulted in hundreds of thoudands of death by police encounters and drug related crimes throughout the decades and still the results are nowhere near close to what the Philippines achieved in only 6 years.
I believe the Portuguese descion to decriminalize drugs reflects a mature acceptance that drug use is a reality. More importantly, isn't it the perogative of each individual what substances they choose to consume? In a democracy, is it appropriate for the government to dictate what is consumed, is the federal government to function as our parents?
@@michaelb1761 Lisbon, doesn't seem to be crumbling, despite employing decriminalization. California's adult Marijuana market has created a measurable, financial loss for the Mexican cartels. Conversely Prohibition was repealed, a complete failure. Tricky Dick Nixon's 'war' on drugs, while having refused to review medical evidence, has yet to show competency, very similar to that of Putin's present murderous actions.
@@pipebomber04 The US tried a nationwide drug war for decades, throwing over a trillion dollars at trying to stop the drug trade. It has ZERO EFFECT. Just legalize drugs and use the profits to help those who abuse them. You end violence and obtain the resources to help those who struggle with drugs.
@Bulletproof Samurai Addiction is a possible outcome, not an absolute. Many U.S. states have legalized Marijuana, for example, without the 'proverbial', or total, destruction of state order. In addition, drug cartel annual income has diminished by approximately 20-30 %. Addiction occurs when substances are consumed, therefore a substance's legal status is irrelevant. Democracy is to provide informed consent rather than dictating as a parent might. The right of self-determination is inalienable, so the state has no legal right to intervene, assuming legal behavior.
you butchered the name "de wever" (you said "de wee vay", but its more like "de waver" (like the verb waving), meaning "the weaver" maybe learn how to pronounce names correctly before making a video, google translate can help you with that!
I live in antwerp and think the barber shop I go to is a money laundry. It changes names every month, it's always run by different people and even tho they barely have any cusstomers their prices haven't gone up since when I first started going there lmao
Thats pretty obvious I guess. In my city there is a pizza-kebab shop that constantly rebrands and charges the wrong price very reliably. It could be a tax grift scheme too.
Same here i live in 2020 and i know a restaurant that does the same. Im not gonna call names but yeah my uncle works for them and he knows whats going on. there has been a bomb thrown to a pizzaria next to it. You can search it up
@@sirc1446 So use the money from controlling/selling them to help those who get addicted, you're not going to stop people from seeking them out if they want them.
It'd be nice to quickly google how to pronounce names correctly when it's another language. It just takes a couple of seconds and it would sound a bit more professional 🙂
As a Belgian, I approve this message. Though the violence is mostly directed at parties directly involved. I believe the only solution is simply less international import or more checks. The latter is always dodgy because of budgets and the human involvement. Not bad on the pronunciations!
I'm gonna be honest with you, I was quite critical after reading the thumbnail. I'll give props where props are due and I have to compliment most of the content presented as being quite correct. And especially I was surprised with the amount of actual local footage that was used, which I didn't know was used to such extent by this channel. But there are a few things where you just missed the mark. First of all the claim in the thumbmail and throughout the video that Belgium is 'en route' to becoming a narco-state is of the charts absurd.The situation is not good but never seriously goes to the extent to make such absurd claims as to Belgium becoming a narco-state. Nor is it truly seriously beleived by any reasonbable person in Belgium. And I have to say it doesn't suit this channel to resort to such despicable click-bait. Secondly I'm dissapointed in the fact that you made over-extensive and at the minimum misleading generalisations about Belgian politics to the subject of drug-trafficking. It's dissapointing that this channel shoud resort to such sketchy claims just to fill up a video. Using this advise I hope you can correct your course in the future. And let this be a lesson to stick to more theoretical (and less click-baitable) arguments. And to, at the very least, also use more detailed (local) research and experts, before making questionable remarks to fill-up time. I was drunk at the time of writing of this piece, so that can only tell you how even more critical I would be if I saw this tomorrow morning sober. So gear up, man up and be (even) better tomorrow!
Yes it will become a narco state because people like money and port workers and others in Belgium society would take the money to pay off the heavy taxes haha
@@angelcabeza6464 It's a heavy income tax... you only pay it when you already have the income to pay it. It's a rich country, especially the north and port workers are especially well-paid.
josh said the wrong surname for hte belgian justice minister it is "de wever" not "de vive" he is flemish, the W sound is between the WH and W in english, also the R is a consonant not a silent letter the flemish people are proud to be germanic, please don,t give them french nicknames
Northern Belgium isn't germmanic but belongs to the Latine world. They are the northernmost Latins and I know many Francophone and Italians born and living there.
Romania confronts with such a topic too. This country suffers from an epidemic without any precedent. The government doesn't know how to solve this matter or the parents.
@@ionut-valerserbanat3354 those stats are not that accurate. Studies say only 30 % of French people have tried Marijuana at least one in their life, when they comsumme even more Cannabis per inhaibitant than in the Netherlands. Also, I found it very fishy that barely any studies are being published to bash Marijuana, as if they can't really prove it is as toxic as tobbacco itself or Alchool, which are both really needed reagrdinh high taxes revenues in Belgium. Weird
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The Belgian government should legalize cocaine. Obviously with a ton of restrictions and red tape. Customers have to sign up for newsletter, showing the side effects of cocaine. And be offered free drug rehabilitation. There is no amount of enforcement police or government that will stop the drug trade. It will just make it harder to get drugs, but there will always be a want for people to get high.
The problem isn't the drug being used by Beglians. It's with other European countries. Beligum is a transition port to pass drugs to other countries. I am skeptical if this solution would work.
Legalizing it doesn't solve your problems, it just shuffles the deck chairs around. Trading one set of problems for an entirely new set isn't working the problem, it is an attempt to cover up the problem.
@@oandr how much weed is traffic from the Netherlands into other European Schengen area countries? You’re up already has a country that allows a drug that is use by huge numbers of people. This wouldn’t be different. I think cocaine would be snuggled less. because if you tried to smuggle weed out of the Netherlands, most of the time they don’t care, they just confiscate the weed. But if you tried to smuggle cocaine out, you’ll get a multiyear prison sentence no question.
@@davidford3115 I don't think legalizing cocaine would pose as many issues as keeping things as they are would. Alcohol is more addictive and yet it's legal. Of course legalizing cocaine doesn't mean that just anyone should be able to buy some whenever they see fit, we can have multiple restrictions around it just like we do with cigarettes and alcohol, but at least you would be dealing with registered companies instead of ruthless south American cartels that answer to no one. As the video shows the demand is there and it isn't going anywhere, so why not try to control the supply?
The EU so hated Duterte's declaring War On Drugs to prevent the Philippines from becoming a Narco state which almost became one had he not put very strict measures. They are now facing the same predicament. Unless they implement harsh measures against these cartels and criminals, Belgium would certainly become a narco state in the next few years. Tens of thousands of europeans would die from drug related crime and overdose each year.
@@mmarques2736 I don't think Vice channel is a very good referrence for fair journalism. I would rather stick to our government data. Foreign media always portray the Philippine Government as dictatorial and cruel to its people. Well the surveys show otherwise. Public support to the government is at an all time high.
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OH DEAR
i'm from belgium
well there's a bit of a turf war going on in antwerpen
“War on drugs” a topic for you or a sister channel?
It should be reconsidered.
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I'm gonna be honest with you, I was quite critical after reading the thumbnail.
I'll give props where props are due and I have to compliment most of the content presented as being quite correct. And especially I was surprised with the amount of actual local footage that was used, which I didn't know was used to such extent by this channel.
But there are a few things where you just missed the mark. First of all the claim in the thumbmail and throughout the video that Belgium is 'en route' to becoming a narco-state is of the charts absurd.The situation is not good but never seriously goes to the extent to make such absurd claims as to Belgium becoming a narco-state. Nor is it truly seriously beleived by any reasonbable person in Belgium. And I have to say it doesn't suit this channel to resort to such despicable click-bait.
Secondly I'm dissapointed in the fact that you made over-extensive and at the minimum misleading generalisations about Belgian politics to the subject of drug-trafficking. It's dissapointing that this channel shoud resort to such sketchy claims just to fill up a video.
Using this advise I hope you can correct your course in the future. And let this be a lesson to stick to more theoretical (and less click-baitable) arguments. And to, at the very least, also use more detailed (local) research and experts, before making questionable remarks to fill-up time.
I was drunk at the time of writing of this piece, so that can only tell you how even more critical I would be if I saw this tomorrow morning sober. So gear up, man up and be (even) better tomorrow!
No one feels unsafe in Antwerp, all of this does not impact public life at all. Go to any poverty area in any big city in the world, you are at risk of being mugged and harassed. Antwerp is just a tourist place, super safe, even the poor areas.
true
There were 300+ narco terrorist attacks in Antwerp last year. Mostly hand grenades and full automatic drive by shootings. Innocent elderly people have had their houses shot bc kartels tipped off the wrong adress. A small child has been killed by automatic fire. Cars have been burned out. Do you live in Antwerp? How old are you? How many decades of experience do you have saying this? You know nothing.
I feel unsafe because of drill boys with huge knives
So true, we'll just put a new container scanner in the harbour when they continue to behave badly and send the problem back to the Netherlands
Good lie
I've recently moved to Limburg, a region of the southern Netherlands really close to Belgium, and it has indeed struck me, the simple availability of most heavy drugs around here
You know that limburg is a province in belgium right and not part of the nederland
@@deadlypanter2048 there is a limburg in both countries.
@@deadlypanter2048 You aren’t well informed. There’s a Limburg in both countries & they have the same accent. Lot of people from The Netherlands consider them as Belgians since they have a soft “G”
Unite borh Limburgs!
@@deadlypanter2048 In welke provincie denk jij dat Maastricht ligt?
There is no solution to drug trafficking so long as there is demand on one side and supply on another. If Belgium really did crack down 'enough', the trade would simply move to another nation. If all of Europe cracked down sufficiently to raise prices, it would only make the transport more lucrative.
Yeah just accept drugs. I am interested to see its effects in 10 and 20 years to the health of any country.
I live in Antwerp, this is true. A solution doesn’t excist. But that doesn’t mean we should just not do anything about it. Recently a 12 year old girl was shot dead by mistake, are you suggesting we should just accept things like this? Please just shut up if you don’t know what you are talking about.
@@pipebomber04 Surely it is fine and only minor. It just adds to the pile of alcoholics, smokers, workaholics, suger addicted people... see... nothing to worry about. And good to know that the politicians consume drugs as well... I mean... that explains A LOT
Excuses. It IS possible. But you gotta really want it. It also doesn't hurt to be meaner than Hell. I'm not perfect but goodness must prevail.
@@pipebomber04 Lots of people don't seem to realize why governments criminalized the use of cocaine and opium over 100 years ago; they were trying to reduce the use of the drugs due to their negative effects on the health of the people. Of course, when the Chinese Emperor tried to outlaw opium in China, the Brits would not stand for that, given how much money they made dealing opium in China.
Just consider yourself lucky for not having a border with Mexico.
Like your country is so innocent I wonder who arms the cartels and also in what country are those weapons made which happens to also arm the cartels I can tell it sure as hell ain't Mexico
Idk, if y'all wouldn't have the demand, there wouldn't be a problem
@@John_Doe448 but we do... you need to come here and see the opioid and meth addicts on the streets here.
@@pepperonish and their life decision is fault of a boarder?
@John Doe in some ways. If the drugs are more accessible, more chance people will turn to it to solve trauma/misery/addiction
This also goes hand-in-hand with the massive production off synthetic drugs in the Netherlands. 90% of all mdma is produced there. Which means there was is an established distribution network very close by
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@jan iemand die de zonnige zijde kan zien, van de dingen.
Over in Scotland Pablo Escobar is a funny insult that your grandmother calls you when she thinks your doing drugs.
I almost don't want to believe that today, with all the information that is out there, some people actually still believe that playing "tough on drug traffickers" leads us anywhere. I'm quite shocked that they actually do. And thus it will go on and on and on...
As a Belgian, I see the 'war on drugs' rhetoric works even with those exact words. Even the tougher punishments for users. At this point I fear our best option is to be creative and undercut the prices of the criminals, by continuing the pressure to make their operations more expensive, and at the same time strike a deal with a stable west-African country to produce cheaper, organic legal cocaine with a fair trade label. Who is going to want to buy junk from a criminal if you can legally buy better stuff? After initial investments it would bring a massive profit to the government too.
When I lived in Antwerp I saw many news regarding that problem and what De Wever's answers to that. TBH, it won't work. While is normal and necessary to put more police and law enforcement personnel in the port, that is not the way to end that problem; that is a war the State can't win, no matter how many armed personnel is on the streets and the port. De Wever might be well intentioned (most likely due his nationalist politics and conservative mind) but that will only lead to more violence, more corruption and less control. None can expext winning a social, economic and public health problem by the force. What you see there is human weakness and you can't kill that with a gun.
Unfortunately the only way thew would ever be convinced it is not going to work is to put a bullet in every skull and see it happen again afterwards - then going after the new ones assuming they didn't go far enough. The shooters just often underestimate the number of bullets they would need - even when they assume there are millions. If they aren't willing/able to reduce demand or exterminate supply it will just keep spiraling forever. It's almost like everyone learned a different wrong lesson on the American Prohibition, assuming anyone learned anything at all.
I'm against people using drugs, but criminalization just doesn't work. The harder you crack down on it, the more lucrative it becomes for those willing to risk trafficking it. There is no perfect solution. Just gotta educate the public on how destructive/expensive it can be for certain people who can't control it once it becomes an addiction.
Belgium, cursed with a perfect geography to be the transportation hub of Europe.
As a Belgian myself, I must admit that the drug problems within our borders are getting quite concerning, so are the political problems. Whatever is tried, it doesn't seem to end. De Wever will most likely fail in his attempts. In my eyes, only Van Quickenborne (our Justice Minister) is capable and competent enough to solve these issues.
From what i hear Antwerp & Rotterdam has the same problem, they cannot scan every container. Even from high risk countries.
The ports would grind to a hold...
Why do you think van Quickenborne can solve this? I am sorry to say but he is pretty incompetent, maybe less incompetent than some others but still in over his head.
Quickenborne competent? Goede grap
@@skylineXpert Not the same problem, we don't have that much violence like in Rotterdam.
@@houseplant1016 is Rotterdam worse than Antwerpen?
Have we learned nothing from the war on drugs? Prohibition never works and it only harms the end user and empowers the underworld. Legalize weed instead and prevent more people from using heavy drugs.
No
No, what?
@@Serif_0s idiotic sheep legalization is a fairytale, it will make the war on drugs seem like a resounding succes.
Finally, asking this for years! Love my city
it hasnt worked until now and it will not work. good luck with your police state.
Their has never been Found more cocaïne in sewer water than there is in Belgium.
I'm born and raised in this shit hole and have seen more than enough to judge the situation.
Crimes, corruption, migration, drugs, unemployment,... The list goes on. All of this while we are the 2nd highest taxed country, explain that.
I find it disturbing that public money being spent on bailing out the underworld, instead of taxing and controlling the substance.
I myself live in antwerp, besides the grenade going off in front of my house it's very safe!
has drug decriminalization fallen from favor?
You'd think after seeing the US spend over a trillion dollars trying to stop drugs, that no one could call enforcement the solution.
It never worked so yes.
Fellow Belgians did you hear how he pronounced Bart De Wever? My man said "De Viveh" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Almost correct about the flamenco, but the weaver (pun intended) is the biggest part of the problem. A barking dog doesn't bite or attacks, only adds to chaos. A bit like unintended maskirovka.
a few sidenotes from an antwerp resident.
1. The problem has not only grown, but swifted from rotterdam to antwerp because of the hard measures from the rotterdam mayor.
2. Bart de wever ( mayor of antwerp ) is really doing everything he can to solve this problem. Believe me, he takes it very seriously.
3 * personal opinion * I think the problem is gonna swift from antwerp to another port , just as it swifted from r'dam to antwerp because of the tighter security in antwerp. i know for example that the security in the ports of spain and greecy is practicly non existing...
4. The balkan maffia is controling the trade route, but the north african maffia is doing the dirty work on the streets.
Extra: they found a chopped up body this morning in antwerp, probably connected to drug trafficing
Spain USED to be the gateway for South American and North American drugs into Europe, yet, for some reason, those same drug cartels shifted to central Europe... Why would that be?
Romenia will be the next uncontrolled gate for trafficking in Europe.
the key to shut down traffic is to make sure that the port workers are kept on a severe control monitoring system, cctv cameras in the ports, unauthorized vehicles need to be invested, the port workers need to be evaluated every few months for external signs of wealth that could not be explained by their salary.
central Europe is a lot society that is a lot more anonymous than Spain, countless drug smuggling operators were shut down by Spain over the last 30 years.
@@pedrolopes3542 so guarda civil did a lot of effort the last 3 decades? thx for the info.
DO you got any numbers on this?
@@pedrolopes3542 They simply moved it because of the fact that Rotterdam and Antwerp has most traffic, hence harder to check every container.
@@juliusaugustus791 Yes it does.
if you go to any search engine and type "guardia civil Narcotráfico detenido" you will find thousands of news of gang members arrested in Spain, if you make a similar search like "politie drugshandel opgepakt" you will not find as many news about it...
The balkan mafia doesn't control the main route for cocaine through North-Africa. That's completely controlled by Moroccans. The routes through Antwerp are controlled by both Balkans and Moroccans. Saying that Moroccans are "small fish" is the reason why they were able to grow so significantly in the past decade while no one was noticing it.
Why don't they just legalize it?
The US's war on drugs led to exactly nowhere in 30 years so at least from tax income they could spend on prevention, rehabilitation and good quality control. Everybody wins, especially the customer!
I have a suggestion, they should sell the ceased drugs in order to help fund ceasing of more drugs
This is not a food review channel. This is a cultural documentary that makes me appreciate our planet and will support this channel till l'm an old woman. 🥰🥰🥰
You look like a young man in the picture
If you can't control it....legalize it! Educate people about the dangers of drugs! Create centers for help and support for users. Tax it! All the illegal activity is going to vanish!
The solution to the intimidation and violence funded by illegal drugs is to legalise them.
... and then the organized crime will find other ways of getting easy money. Don't think they will just let their head down and go and work a 9 to 5 job. There's trafficking, fake medication, internet scams, etc. But, something has to be done.
Go back to sleep, your too high.
Why not legalise use, continue to confiscate illegal imports and hand out that coke for free?
At this point they should just tax it
That will not solve the problem, it will simply make the government become the biggest drug dealer.
Legalize and tax all guns too.
They should also provide detoxification services to cocaine addicts and fight the consumption of the drug to attack the demand side of things
so if theres a demand for something supply doesn't cease. decriminalised and education health, follow up services is a better option. busting people making criminals of them hasnt worked so far nor has it over the ages. thank you.
Where there is a demand a supply will appear. The only way to win "the war on drugs" is to stop fighting it. Legalize it, regulate it, tax it, and apply the tax revenue to recovery programs for people who have problems with it.
Really minor detail but the pronunciation is killing me lol "w" in Flemish Dutch is more or less pronounced like an English w so it's not "Antverp" or "De veever" but "Antwerp" and " De Wayver" (following English phonetic rules).
And I thought Belgium was really boring
Hergé is not boring.
Francois Waltehry is not boring.
But brussels sprouts are boring
Apart from the radical terrorists in Brussels. The Albanian and Moroccan drugsmaffia in Antwerps, the communist terrorists (CCC) and our right wing parties, yes we are indeed boring...
It is
it is the most boring itw
War with drugs went excellent in USA, lets do it in Europe. /s
Legalise and control.
Excellent ? Did I miss something ?
@@razackchrist5096 yup, "/s" at the end of sentence. 😏
@@45678213914284289421 What does it mean ? I'm not anglophone by birth.
@@razackchrist5096 /sarcasm
legalize drugs, sell them offically and the black market goes bust. it could be easy.
with legalized drug stores the controll of the product would be controlled and he people that take the drugs could be helped...
but a "war on Drugs" sounds beter I guess
Feed the R&D Budgets for technology to find drugs easily.
There is no way to mention The drug underworld of Antwerp. Without mentioning Bart De Wever 👀, loving his attempts at combating the problem
Personal story on this:
The garage on the ground floor of my dads apartment in Hoboken (district of Antwerp) was sieved by bullets about a year ago. In the 10 years he has lived there, the "company" that rents the garage has changed names about 5-6 times. At the beginning it were cleaning companies, then it changed to logistics. As far as I've seen there was never a lot of stuff in the garage. Just some closets, a table and some chairs. There is however a very fancy security camera outside that is pointed right at the garage door... I always thought something shady was going on in there, then the shooting proved my point. Still wonder what it is though. A company simply for money laundering doesn't explain the camera outside.
What do you people think? Meeting place? Storage of weapons/drugs?
I do notice the presence of a larger variety and quantity of drugs around me. (I live in Ghent).
Capital punishment is working just fine in Singapore.
As a Belgian, dead accurate video, these days in Antwerp granades are being exploded almost every day, de wever blames vivaldi, vivaldi says measures are being taken, the only thing about this video that could be better is the pronounciation of de wever, it's de wever not de vive
Belgians have to pay for King Leopold II's sins. Its not even started.
@@SiberianHusky-jv4zv dumbest comment award goes to you by a mile, this has nothing to do with it
@@sennevinck5613 Still Belgian deserves far more worst than this.
@@SiberianHusky-jv4zv you know that the people who did those horrible things died a long time ago right?
@@SiberianHusky-jv4zv I remember those days as Indeed we were all there at the time because its only 100 years back in History
Thanks for explaining Taken 4's plot.
If there are previous refugees who works on Belgian Harbours, then they will be potential accomplices.
The EU should throw everything at this problem now and stamp it out sending a message across Europe.
The US did this nationwide for decades, throwing over a trillion dollars at trying to stop the drug trade. It has ZERO EFFECT. Please don't make the same stupid mistake, just legalize drugs and use the profits to help those who abuse them. You end violence and obtain the resources to help those who struggle with drugs.
@@tylernorby4939 Help those who abuse them ? If those who abuse hard drugs do not want to stop.... but keep hurting people around them (whether family member or complete strangers)... it might lead to other problems.
Belgium really loves drinking that coke
They also have a higher suicide rate than Japan....
yes a video about belgium, but not a good one
Do we need a new Marseile in Europe
As a belgian myself i honestly think it is. I live in a city that used to be safe but now i see heroin needles and cocaine bags everywhere on the floor now
Somebody has to be number one!
Do you realize the absurdity of your statement? You are misrepresenting the definition of a narcostate. In n narco-states, drugs will seldom be intercepted by the authorities, simply because they are so corrupt that they let drugs go through, So the more drugs are being intercepted the less of a narcostate Belgium is. You should be worried when no or hardly any drugs are intercepted in world-class ports.
Indeed. Narco-States are active participants in pushing the drugs as the politicians are often on the payroll of the cartels. Mexico better fits that description than Belgium.
Yeah most clickbait title in a long while
It should not be prohibited so we will know what it does to a country. Crackheads are against war on drugs anyway. Let them have their cake.
Belgique Frites et moules. No such phrase as chips.
Our political-system in Belgium starts more to look like a fraud if you see it through other eyes.
Fairly accurate piece but 2 things you failed to mention. The gangs conducting war in the streets of Antwerp are mainly of Maroccan origin both in Belgium and the Netherlands. The violence is also mainly between gangmembers though collateral damage is increasing rapidly. The second is the new initiative from the goverment to heavely penalise the end users. With fines around 5K. This last measure is a good one but with limited effect considering how much drugs floods on to the rest of Europe too…
How did you end up pronouncing De Wever as "De Wiewee" lol
As a dirty, lazy and poor Walloon it made me laugh a bit lol
@@arnaud4588 hahaha
You forgot the awefull power of the mocromaffia.
The things here in Netherlands are probaly worst.
Undermining the Institutions of the State: goverment/ locale, Justice, Lawyers and Press. Regulare Police is doing nothing anymore. Only units of DSI, sometimes BSB and AT’s
It’s not only more control at Spain’s ports. A lot of cocaine was coming through Odessa, so much that nobody knows the approximate amount, but know with the war going on it has become too dangerous/expensive, so an alternative must have been found.
All that money that they spend... could have gone into something useful.. really..
Ban central and South America
And western Balkan countries.
Diamonds and drugs great combination of Antwerp.
I seriously cannot handle the music in your videos
Can't you just talk without all of this overly loud and dramatic music?
This isn't an action film. It's an opinion piece.
legalize it, tax it,and thus control the distribution points and areas where u can sell it...
not perfect, i know, but it is better than the system we have now...
Duterte's hardline drug policy seems to yield results, by introducing the death penalty for anyone involved in the supply of hard drugs. If the death penalty is too much for Belgians, it could be a very serious automatic conviction, and banishment to a remote place they wont want to go.
The sorts of products that are imported from South American countries should probably go to specialist processing centres where their unpacking can be monitored.
The Philippines' legislative blocked the Death Penalty and thus capital punishment is still not allowed there. However, drug cartel's footprint was severely decreased due to very harsh measures implemented such as firing thousands of port and police officials suspected of drug involvement, zero tolerance police raids, etc. Exposing hundreds of names in public of politicians and police and military generals linked to drugs helped a lot in the severing ties between cartel's and corrupt government officials.
Duerte has the most extreme war on drugs, he does what he wants with no regards for the law. His results: drugs have halved, that’s it.. with government kill squads death penalties, harsh prison time for users,.. The results of all this are pathetic. War on drugs is idiotic, just let the pharma indusrty take over the drug market and tax the hell out of them.
@@gamercatsz5441 Really? Were you in the Philippines from 2010-2022? Duterte's War On Drugs resulted in more than 1 million people who voluntarily surrendered, are alive, and went through free rehabilitation. Tens of thousands arrested drug suspects that are alive and in jail. 7000 deaths due to violent resistance during police arrestd and raids at a cost of several hundred law enforcement and militsry deaths. The War on drugs greatly reduced the supply of methampethamine (major drug in circulation) in the country and resulted in 40-60% decrease in crime rate. This is the reason why the old man got consistent very high approval rating throughout his presidency.
Duterte's war on drugs will look like peanuts compared the one engaged in the US, Mexico, and the rest of latin america which resulted in hundreds of thoudands of death by police encounters and drug related crimes throughout the decades and still the results are nowhere near close to what the Philippines achieved in only 6 years.
Would have finished the video but the way he pops the p in Europe
Answer this question:
When was Belgium NOT a narco state?
Every year we break a new record
Blimey
Where's Popeye Doyle when you need him?
You want Belgium to not be a narco state? Let Romania into Schengen
legalize cocaine?
Maybe look up some pronunciations, the way y'all say "De Wever" is literally incomprehensible
I believe the Portuguese descion to decriminalize drugs reflects a mature acceptance that drug use is a reality. More importantly, isn't it the perogative of each individual what substances they choose to consume? In a democracy, is it appropriate for the government to dictate what is consumed, is the federal government to function as our parents?
The problem is that the addict isnt the only one affected by his/her own actions. He/she becomes a burden and possible threat to the community.
They've basically done that in SF and Portland. Both cities have gone from amazing beautiful cities to open sewers.
@@michaelb1761 Lisbon, doesn't seem to be crumbling, despite employing decriminalization. California's adult Marijuana market has created a measurable, financial loss for the Mexican cartels. Conversely Prohibition was repealed, a complete failure. Tricky Dick Nixon's 'war' on drugs, while having refused to review medical evidence, has yet to show competency, very similar to that of Putin's present murderous actions.
@@pipebomber04 The US tried a nationwide drug war for decades, throwing over a trillion dollars at trying to stop the drug trade. It has ZERO EFFECT. Just legalize drugs and use the profits to help those who abuse them. You end violence and obtain the resources to help those who struggle with drugs.
@Bulletproof Samurai Addiction is a possible outcome, not an absolute. Many U.S. states have legalized Marijuana, for example, without the 'proverbial', or total, destruction of state order. In addition, drug cartel annual income has diminished by approximately 20-30 %. Addiction occurs when substances are consumed, therefore a substance's legal status is irrelevant. Democracy is to provide informed consent rather than dictating as a parent might. The right of self-determination is inalienable, so the state has no legal right to intervene, assuming legal behavior.
Yeah i live next to the Sea port allot of fuckery goes on in here
So how about you legalise it instead of banning
Yeah like almost every (ethnicly) Chinese restaurant in my city. Operating with not a single person in for like years.
you butchered the name "de wever" (you said "de wee vay", but its more like "de waver" (like the verb waving), meaning "the weaver"
maybe learn how to pronounce names correctly before making a video, google translate can help you with that!
Don't let it get out of hand, as in Mexico. Hard crackdown seems like the only solution!
Talk about clickbait title
Yet Ro and Bulgaria still can't be in Schengen lmao
I live in antwerp and think the barber shop I go to is a money laundry. It changes names every month, it's always run by different people and even tho they barely have any cusstomers their prices haven't gone up since when I first started going there lmao
Thats pretty obvious I guess. In my city there is a pizza-kebab shop that constantly rebrands and charges the wrong price very reliably. It could be a tax grift scheme too.
Same here i live in 2020 and i know a restaurant that does the same. Im not gonna call names but yeah my uncle works for them and he knows whats going on. there has been a bomb thrown to a pizzaria next to it. You can search it up
Why combat it?
Because it kills people on both ends?
Drugs are bad
@@sirc1446 So use the money from controlling/selling them to help those who get addicted, you're not going to stop people from seeking them out if they want them.
100 tons of ❄️…. Dang
Guayaquil is pronounced why-A-kill
It'd be nice to quickly google how to pronounce names correctly when it's another language. It just takes a couple of seconds and it would sound a bit more professional 🙂
So it is the Albanian Mafia
As a Belgian, I approve this message. Though the violence is mostly directed at parties directly involved. I believe the only solution is simply less international import or more checks. The latter is always dodgy because of budgets and the human involvement. Not bad on the pronunciations!
Legalización
I'm gonna be honest with you, I was quite critical after reading the thumbnail.
I'll give props where props are due and I have to compliment most of the content presented as being quite correct. And especially I was surprised with the amount of actual local footage that was used, which I didn't know was used to such extent by this channel.
But there are a few things where you just missed the mark. First of all the claim in the thumbmail and throughout the video that Belgium is 'en route' to becoming a narco-state is of the charts absurd.The situation is not good but never seriously goes to the extent to make such absurd claims as to Belgium becoming a narco-state. Nor is it truly seriously beleived by any reasonbable person in Belgium. And I have to say it doesn't suit this channel to resort to such despicable click-bait.
Secondly I'm dissapointed in the fact that you made over-extensive and at the minimum misleading generalisations about Belgian politics to the subject of drug-trafficking. It's dissapointing that this channel shoud resort to such sketchy claims just to fill up a video.
Using this advise I hope you can correct your course in the future. And let this be a lesson to stick to more theoretical (and less click-baitable) arguments. And to, at the very least, also use more detailed (local) research and experts, before making questionable remarks to fill-up time.
I was drunk at the time of writing of this piece, so that can only tell you how even more critical I would be if I saw this tomorrow morning sober. So gear up, man up and be (even) better tomorrow!
Yes it will become a narco state because people like money and port workers and others in Belgium society would take the money to pay off the heavy taxes haha
@@angelcabeza6464 It's a heavy income tax... you only pay it when you already have the income to pay it. It's a rich country, especially the north and port workers are especially well-paid.
If you just legalize it then there will be no drug trafficking haha jk
josh said the wrong surname for hte belgian justice minister it is "de wever" not "de vive" he is flemish, the W sound is between the WH and W in english, also the R is a consonant not a silent letter
the flemish people are proud to be germanic, please don,t give them french nicknames
Northern Belgium isn't germmanic but belongs to the Latine world. They are the northernmost Latins and I know many Francophone and Italians born and living there.
@@Linkknnkillnkju northern Belgium is were they speak Dutch a germanic language
He's not the justice minister. Just the president of a conservative right wing party and mayor of Antwerp.
Sorry, but Vincent Van Quickenborne uses coke himself
Romania confronts with such a topic too. This country suffers from an epidemic without any precedent. The government doesn't know how to solve this matter or the parents.
What's going on in Romania?
@@ikerdelpalacio5160 too many young people, even children, began to consume more and more dangerous drugs.
@@ionut-valerserbanat3354 Holy Sh.t
@@ikerdelpalacio5160 some began when they are only 12 years old, and 11% of people with ages between 14-64 had contact with drugs at least once.
@@ionut-valerserbanat3354 those stats are not that accurate. Studies say only 30 % of French people have tried Marijuana at least one in their life, when they comsumme even more Cannabis per inhaibitant than in the Netherlands. Also, I found it very fishy that barely any studies are being published to bash Marijuana, as if they can't really prove it is as toxic as tobbacco itself or Alchool, which are both really needed reagrdinh high taxes revenues in Belgium. Weird
Jullie uitspraken van Vlaamse namen klinken echt raar
Niet alleen die van Vlaamse namen, hoor. Eigenlijk blijft er van geen enkele niet-Engelse naam niks meer over bij ze...
Serbia is #1 euro narco 🤣🤣😂😂😂
Are they going to start smuggling in hippos now? 🦛😅
So why Belgium?🇧🇪
Why not France? 🇫🇷
France is Europe's richest country with direct access to the Atlantic 🤔
Not a robot! - Use of emoticons denote that
Who cares about being the richest country if it only is a hub to distribute them into the shengen area?
The Belgian government should legalize cocaine. Obviously with a ton of restrictions and red tape.
Customers have to sign up for newsletter, showing the side effects of cocaine. And be offered free drug rehabilitation.
There is no amount of enforcement police or government that will stop the drug trade. It will just make it harder to get drugs, but there will always be a want for people to get high.
The problem isn't the drug being used by Beglians. It's with other European countries. Beligum is a transition port to pass drugs to other countries. I am skeptical if this solution would work.
Legalizing it doesn't solve your problems, it just shuffles the deck chairs around. Trading one set of problems for an entirely new set isn't working the problem, it is an attempt to cover up the problem.
Imagine how much cocaine will flow to other EU countries. Schengen area will make this law a trafficker's dream.
@@oandr how much weed is traffic from the Netherlands into other European Schengen area countries?
You’re up already has a country that allows a drug that is use by huge numbers of people. This wouldn’t be different.
I think cocaine would be snuggled less. because if you tried to smuggle weed out of the Netherlands, most of the time they don’t care, they just confiscate the weed. But if you tried to smuggle cocaine out, you’ll get a multiyear prison sentence no question.
@@davidford3115 I don't think legalizing cocaine would pose as many issues as keeping things as they are would. Alcohol is more addictive and yet it's legal. Of course legalizing cocaine doesn't mean that just anyone should be able to buy some whenever they see fit, we can have multiple restrictions around it just like we do with cigarettes and alcohol, but at least you would be dealing with registered companies instead of ruthless south American cartels that answer to no one. As the video shows the demand is there and it isn't going anywhere, so why not try to control the supply?
The EU so hated Duterte's declaring War On Drugs to prevent the Philippines from becoming a Narco state which almost became one had he not put very strict measures. They are now facing the same predicament. Unless they implement harsh measures against these cartels and criminals, Belgium would certainly become a narco state in the next few years. Tens of thousands of europeans would die from drug related crime and overdose each year.
Duterte didn't declare war on drugs, he declared war on drug users. HUGE difference.
@@m.o.c.p.5250 And your source?
I highly recommend you this Vice reportage on that matter: ruclips.net/video/DJZulTESVoY/видео.html
@@mmarques2736 I don't think Vice channel is a very good referrence for fair journalism. I would rather stick to our government data. Foreign media always portray the Philippine Government as dictatorial and cruel to its people. Well the surveys show otherwise. Public support to the government is at an all time high.
Meant as a joke but VisualPolitik and this video's sponsor are also making money of off drugs now
😁
Let's just hope all the MEPs do drugs and push for legalisation to dodge the next narco scandal xD it's high time to legalize at very least weed
it's a war that can not be won. not without completely destroying the source of the drug. (which will never happen).
You're pulling on the wrong end. It is the demand side, which has to be destroyed to end the war