🇺🇸⚡- "President Donald Trump has signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations," - The New York Times.

🇲🇽 🇺🇸 Mexican Cartels reportedly armed with Javelin antitank missiles.

🔶️ David Saucedo, a security consultant, confirmed the Javelin is being used by cartels and suggested they could be revealing this information as a show of force to Mexico’s incoming president, who is to take power later this year.

🔶️ Javelins would be among the most extreme examples of the escalation in the arms race between cartels and Mexican military. Cartels’ arsenals now include belt-fed gatling guns, drone bombs and land mines, all with potential to provoke elected U.S. officials who have advocated invading Mexico.

🔶️ The police chief of the state of Aguascalientes, Porfirio Sánchez Mendoza, was flying across the capital city in his government helicopter in 2022, when the machine suddenly spiraled out of control.

🔶️ The crash was one in a string of similar accidents in Mexico in recent years. Like many, it was attributed to mechanical failures.

🔶️ But the internal forensics report tells another story, according to Saucedo, who has reviewed the internal documents. Saucedo - who has done security consulting for Mexican political candidates including for governor and senate – said the report details how an explosive projectile pierced the helicopter’s door, he said, and debris scattered in a circle inconsistent with a mechanical failure.

🔶️ The forensics point to a munition similar to a Javelin, he said, adding that, “part of the helicopter detached due to the impact.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/06/29/mexican-cartels-increased-firepower-us-weapons/74226110007/

⚡️🇺🇸🇲🇽 “Mexico is the only country we need, from an economic point of view. It’s the only one we can’t turn our backs on.” - Peter Zeihan

“Mexico is our most important ally.” - Dan Crenshaw

🇺🇸🇲🇽🪖 Crenshaw says using U.S. military force in Mexico isn’t as extreme as it sounds

One of Congress’ leading proponents for using military force against Mexican drug cartels said he’d consider restricting armed action until Mexico approves of it — all to get Democrats more comfortable with the aggressive messaging.

In January, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), chair of the Republican-led Task Force to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels, alongside Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.”

- Politico

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Mexico in violent turmoil from drug cartels. 200 armed groups struggle for power. AMLO proposes “hugs not bullets” Idiotic policy. 20% of Mexico controlled by Cartels.

📎 Retired General Barry McCaffrey, MSNBC interview

⚡️🇲🇽🇺🇸 “Mexico has become a failed narco-state, and it's time for America to do what AMLO's government won't.”

📎 The Spectator