Syria is a Narcostate. Here's How to Fix It

From more than half a century, the nation of Syria has been a drug empire. From the early days, the Assad family dynasty, Syria's leaders, its wallards, its cartels, and some of its biggest businesses joined forces. For a singular purpose, mixing, pressing, and distributing cheap and effective street drugs.

With this, the Assad regime built itself into something that even the world's most powerful drug syndicates could unravel, a cartel that operates as a sovereign nation.

Its product flowed across the entire world, caused through the blood of its soldiers during over a decade of civil war, and put billions upon billions of dollars into the pockets of the Assad family and their cronies. Today, the Assad dynasty no longer rules Syria, toppled in 2024 and unceremon iously banished Moscow.