What if the fentanyl crisis isn’t accidental?

There’s a disturbing pattern that’s emerged over the past few years: fentanyl showing up in drugs where it doesn’t belong. Cocaine, MDMA, even cannabis in rare cases. The official story is that this is the result of careless dealers or contaminated supply chains. But that explanation starts to fall apart under scrutiny.

What if someone wants the supply tainted?

Not to make money, but to manufacture consent.

We’ve seen this before. The intelligence community, and the CIA specifically, has a long history of covert operations involving narcotics. MKUltra. Iran-Contra. Collusion with cartels during the Cold War. They’ve used drugs as tools before to destabilize, discredit, and control.

So who gains from a poisoned street drug market?

Private prison companies. Politicians pushing law-and-order platforms. Border security contractors. Local police departments looking to justify budget increases. Federal agencies seeking broader surveillance powers. Each overdose death reinforces a narrative that justifies more control, more spending, more militarization.

And it’s not just domestic. The origins of fentanyl precursors trace back to China. This feeds a convenient geopolitical narrative that bolsters the new Cold War framework. It gives ammunition to those arguing for trade restrictions, cyber operations, and even military posturing.

It’s a perfect storm: public panic, foreign scapegoats, and institutional expansion.

We’re told this is just a tragic accident, a series of unfortunate events in a broken system. But what if that’s the cover story? What if the system isn’t broken at all, but functioning exactly as designed?

This wouldn’t be the first time a fire was set deliberately, only for those responsible to show up later, acting like heroes for trying to contain the damage.