Question: What has caused more than 200,000 reported American deaths in the last two years and what has caused zero reported American deaths?

Tucker Carlson brought out this comparison a week ago in front of a large audience after his interviews with Republican POTUS candidates. (Apologies I can’t find the video).

The answer?

From here:

Provisional Data Shows U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 in 2022 | Blogs | CDC

“After adjustments for delayed reporting, the predicted number of drug overdose deaths showed an increase of 0.5% from the 12 months ending in December 2021 to the 12 months ending in December 2022, from 109,179 to 109,680.The biggest percentage increase in overdose deaths in 2022 occurred in Washington and Wyoming, where deaths were up 22%.”

No numbers for the first seven months of 2023, but at 2021 and 2022 rates, there could easily be another 50,000 American deaths from drug overdose deaths this year.

Now, there may very well have been American deaths in Ukraine, but the “official” number is zero.

So what should the odd hundred billion bucks have been pent on in the last 30 months? Open borders or a proxy war? Even more galling is the peace deal was scuttled by British and American neo-cons early on in the Russia/Ukraine war that would have seen the Russians withdrawing their troops in exchange for reinstating security guarantees of non-NATO presence (e.g. bio-weapons labs) within Ukraine borders – but, lots of trade deals with the EU and elsewhere open to Ukraine.

“The reported and predicted number of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (including fentanyl but excluding methadone) and psychostimulants with abuse potential (such as methamphetamine) continued to increase compared to the previous year.

Both reported and predicted overdose deaths involving cocaine increased compared to the previous year.”

More CDC data here:

Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data (cdc.gov)

Which has this chart:

Last Reviewed: July 12, 2023

Concerned citizens – mostly worried parents of party going kids I suspect – might be interest in this:

Part 1: Investigating how illicit fentanyl is actually getting into the U.S. | WUSF Public Media

NPR is biasing its reporting to suggest that fentanyl is being smuggled via ports of entry, not “the field”. Here is a comment from a resident and the NPR “narrative” bias.

“JOHN MODLIN: Last year, we seized about 700 pounds of fentanyl. That was encountered - 52% of that, so the majority of that - was encountered in the field. So that is predominantly being backpacked across the border.”

Ro which the NPR reporter qualified:

“ROSE: The Border Patrol in Tucson is on pace to surpass that total this year. But even so, that is just a small fraction of the 10,000 pounds that were seized in Nogales and other ports in Arizona. Still, Republicans say that there could be far more fentanyl hiding in the backpacks of smugglers that the Border Patrol is not catching because agents are distracted by dealing with migrants crossing the border. Some argue that's allowing smugglers to sneak more of their product across in the wide stretches of terrain between the ports.”

So, all about American priorities in protecting American lives in America or aiding and abetting the killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives “way over there”.

How long before there are a million casualties - if this has not actually happened already?

Spend the odd 100 billion on trying to prevent some of the 100,000 annual drug overdoses (actually more likely to be poisoning) caused by fentanyl coming in via the southern border or, assist in the cause of the deaths of 100’s of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians?

Of course, once cruise missiles are fired at Russian cities, including Moscow that is already being attacked by drones, the more likely that Russia will escalate - nuclear or reciprocation on European, British and American cities - which is what the neo-cons in the Cult of Moloch are hoping for.

What is the human cost of the Russia-Ukraine war so far?

Ukraine war, already with up to 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023 - U.S. documents | Reuters

“MOSCOW, April 12 (Reuters) - As many as 354,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Ukraine war which is grinding towards a protracted conflict that may last well beyond 2023, according to a trove of purported U.S. intelligence documents posted online.

If authentic, the documents, which look like secret U.S. assessments of the war as well as some U.S. espionage against allies, offer rare insight into Washington's view of one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since World War Two.”

The truth is not going to be revealed until after the conflict has ended – which might be in three years or so – maybe ten years, if Afghanistan is any indication.

Remember the mindset of neo-cons?

Watch: Madeleine Albright Saying Iraqi Kids' Deaths 'Worth It' Resurfaces (newsweek.com)

“"We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima," Stahl said. "And, you know, is the price worth it?"

"I think that is a very hard choice," Albright answered, "but the price, we think, the price is worth it."

The (Un)Trusted News Initiative has its propaganda:

New data shows how many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine | AP News

“BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead.

Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.”

Yeah, really. It is like asking Sean Penn how many notches he has on his belt.

Onwards

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