Cethin

The precursor is made in China, but not fentanyl itself. They sell the precursor, and, IIRC, it’s largely finished in Mexico. The precursor is nominally legal, so it’s shipped as close as it can be to be manufactured.

It’s mostly cocaine coming through Venezuela I think. It’s not being grown there, but it is one of several shipping routes.

I think people are missing something pretty important here: this creates justification to use the US military against its citizens. Sure, it may just be to justify an invasion of Venezuela, but I suspect it’s more substantial than that. Saying the cartels have WMDs within the United States manufactures a threat that the military needs to fight. These “WMDs” are in every state and every city. They have manufactured a credible reason to use the military anywhere in the US against any group of people because it’s so pervasive.