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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (open.substack.com)   2639 thread views

Reaper Drones over Houston: A War in Mexico Would Mean War in America

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Take I wrote on increasing calls in Republican and bi-partisan spaces for a Military intervention into Mexico against the Cartels, and why this would inevitably lead to armed conflict within America itself, along with a possible death spiral of instability in the wider North American region.

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and some of whom, as in the case of the Los Zetas Cartel, are themselves former Special Forces trained by American Green Berets.

Very minor fact-check on what is otherwise an excellent write-up Kulak, there were roughly 30 Los Zetas who were former Mexican Special Forces trained by the Green Berets. Almost if not all of them are now dead, and all the evidence suggests they were not able to pass on their training to the next generation of Zetas, who are now essentially on par with any other cartel in terms of skill at violence. This is just one of my pet peeves that came over from reddit, there's a thousand commenters on /r/worldnews who are convinced that half the cartels are actually run by CIA-trained Special Forces which is just... no.

Also if anyone is curious as to just how far cartel influence extends into the United States, feel free to take a peek at this 2020 DEA report on the subject, which while suffering from the fact it was only prepared for 2020, is still very good. Take a look at page 65, figure 58. Boston, for example, is exclusively Sinaloa territory, while Bellingham WA is Beltran-Leyva run. Kinda feel like the BLO got screwed on that one, but ah well.

Oddly the link to the report seems to have been taken down, even when you try to find it via google.

Odd, still works for me, and it's the first result on google when I put in "DEA 2020 national drug threat assessment." Try this archive.org link?

Thank you, much appreciated. Not sure what the issue is on my end

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