Follow the money
Is it possible to weaken ISIS by attacking the financial structure, through which it trains its recruits and acquires weapons? No, not without a significant change in how the world polices its economy. Because like many structured criminal organizations, ISIS has grown and succeeded by exploiting the channels through which capital enters: drugs, oil, private funding, smuggled artifacts. Blocking the assets that fill ISIS’ coffers would mean rethinking the world’s economy. France – like the United States before it – is paying a very high price for its sin of inattention.
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