Originally Posted By: The Last Woltz
Originally Posted By: dontomasso
Vito had to good sense to realize he would lose political and judicial support if he went into drugs the same way he went into women, gambling and labor unions, but Sonny did not.


When Vito realized he couldn't hold off the drug trade any longer, he quickly agreed to provide the very protection he had just said that he wouldn't be able to provide for the drug trade. We're given no reason to think that he was unable to provide it.




W, Vito's only reason for providing his requested assistance with the drug trade was to secure Michael's safe return to the US. In lieu of that need, there is nothing to indicate that he would have still supplied the requested assistance.

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