Cartels producing steroids.

[Millard]

His girlfriend sounds just unfathomably sexy, based on everything you've said about her, she's a knockout.

Carrot Top was seriously connected and put in the work with good advice.

I was seriously crushing on her at the time. What's not to like about a smart attractive redhead with a good working knowledge of AAS. Plus her flirty Southern belle accent. Oh, and did I mention she had a sex advice column in Penthouse? It's a story for another time.

Glad she didn't go for the calf implants.

Not cool.

Duchaine always accepted responsibility for the misfortune he brought to the women he loved. His sadness/regret/disappointment for the mistakes weighed on him greatly.

Yet the details of these tragedies weren't public knowledge until Assael wrote about them in Steroid Nation. I guess Assael could have independently uncovered this information. And as a public figure, maybe this information was fair game for a journalist. But what bothers me is that is it was mostly likely someone who Duchaine trusted with this information gave Assael the roadmap. I know it still doesn't change the fact that there are two women who's lives were permanently and irrevocably altered as a result.

 

[Astartes]

OK, I'm intrigued.

WTF are Chechen cartels doing in the US? And what distinguishes them?

Different phases of my career. DOD & Interpol.

I worded that poorly @Type-IIx. My apologies. I am not aware of any proxies here in US with Chechen cartels, though the Russians (Not always synonymous with Chechen) I am sure still have a strong presence in NE US.

US domestic gangs still operate, but their drug involvement is almost exclusively at the behest of the Cartels and managed through Mexican gangs who really crushed independent gang drug and weapon operations across US around 2007-2015.

I don’t pretend to be especially well versed on current state, but my understanding from family in State Dept and Intelligence operations alongside friends in law enforcement operations is that there has not been a significant re-shift or pendular swing.

My experiences were around 2002 (post military) as a contractor and then operative with DOD. It isn’t a very glorious thing and candidly… not gratifying or rewarding. I exited after 6.5 years in 2009.

There is so much to lose and almost nothing to gain. Very little impact is made because the political backing is amorphous. Support and real dedication to eradicating cartels across the world is in a constant state of flux and exposes anyone with real ideology or values to very real and significant risk. (Along with families)

The only exception I have seen recently to this from a nation may be El Salvador

 

[Type-IIx]

Different phases of my career. DOD & Interpol

I suppose that's the answer you can give.

Be a lot cooler if you weren't so aloof about it and just told us some aspects that didn't divulge anything classified tho.

 

[Astartes]

Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what I suspected it was. Please just don't expose me to that is what I am asking. I am not the guy who needs a more cynical/realist view of human nature, I'm already there. Just don't need PTSD, thanks.

I and a buddy of mine used to have to interpret and analyze video footage in the military (intelligence and spec ops collaborations) providing tactical analysis and identifying (if possible) involved parties.

My advice to anyone on this thread is don’t. Don’t go to the dark net looking. Just don’t. It stays with you forever no matter how hard you are. There is nothing to gain. It won’t make you harder. It just wears on the soul.

Honestly, Wes and I (as well as most folks I knew) would both cover the screen when we were simply interpreting audio because we were so tired of it.

 

[Astartes]

I suppose that's the answer you can give.

Be a lot cooler if you weren't so aloof about it and just told us some aspects that didn't divulge anything classified tho.

I should have left it alone, it isn’t table conversation

 

[Type-IIx]

Different phases of my career. DOD & Interpol.

I worded that poorly @Type-IIx. My apologies. I am not aware of any proxies here in US with Chechen cartels, though the Russians (Not always synonymous with Chechen) I am sure still have a strong presence in NE US.

US domestic gangs still operate, but their drug involvement is almost exclusively at the behest of the Cartels and managed through Mexican gangs who really crushed independent gang drug and weapon operations across US around 2007-2015.

I don’t pretend to be especially well versed on current state, but my understanding from family in State Dept and Intelligence operations alongside friends in law enforcement operations is that there has not been a significant re-shift or pendular swing.

My experiences were around 2002 (post military) as a contractor and then operative with DOD. It isn’t a very glorious thing and candidly… not gratifying or rewarding. I exited after 6.5 years in 2009.

There is so much to lose and almost nothing to gain. Very little impact is made because the political backing is amorphous. Support and real dedication to eradicating cartels across the world is in a constant state of flux and exposes anyone with real ideology or values to very real and significant risk. (Along with families)

The only exception I have seen recently to this from a nation may be El Salvador

Thank you for this! I hadn't seen your edit. That was insightful & interesting. I have read a bit about El Salvador, it's MS-13 that hails from there I believe, started in the prison system, that is apparently a total joke, like, a casino/resort for seriously hardened criminals. I know they're pretty nasty fucks.

I recall something vaguely, that was recent too, like a massive region of the country is just cartel land and so totally filled with criminals/terrorists essentially, that neighboring countries have shifted their militaries to oversee it or some such.

 

[Looksmaxphen]

I feel like they do,but that’s not where the main market is