Finally I can reveal what I’ve been working on since leaving Vice earlier this year...🧵 1/12 Russia has developed a unique drug trade model combining darknet markets, cryptocurrency payments and physical ‘dead drops’, which now dominates its illegal drug economy 2/12

In the early 2000s Sweden had one of the lowest rates of gun homicides in Europe but now it has the highest – in 2022 there were a record 391 shootings and 63 fatalities. How did this happen in one of Europe’s wealthiest countries? Here’s what’s going on 🧵 1/10 But unlike Belgium and the Netherlands, whose massive cocaine smuggling ports have turned them into a magnet for violent international crime gangs, Sweden’s bullet strewn crimewave has seemingly come out of nowhere.