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Many people are surprised by Ryan Wedding.

Specifically, they’re surprised that a white, upper-class former Canadian Olympian would be compared to Pablo Escobar. But I’m not.

Ryan Wedding is from Vancouver. And the thing about organized crime in Vancouver is that so much of it is run by white upper-class people.

There isn’t much of an Italian mafia here. And I don’t know much about Crips or Bloods here either. But Vancouver, being a port city, still attracts organized crime.

We’ve got biker gangs, Triads, Indian gangs.

But also—in a very Canadian way—multicultural gangs. For example, the UN Gang, which prides itself on including people from multiple ethnicities: whites, Vietnamese, Indians, Arabs, etc.

And who started the UN Gang? Clayton Roeche. A rich white dude with an Asian obsession.

And who are the UN Gang’s main rivals? The Wolfpack Alliance, which is another multi-ethnic gang. And the people who helped start that were the Bacon Brothers of the Red Scorpions and Larry Amero of the Hells Angels. Once again, well-to-do white dudes.

Ryan Wedding is linked to the Wolfpack Alliance, who in turn are allied with the Sinaloa Cartel.

So the real story here isn’t that Ryan Wedding is some wild exception. It’s that rich white Canadian men involved in street gangs are working in tandem with Mexican cartels.