The Mexican government has been waging war against drug cartels for over a decade with limited success. These cartels illegally procure modern military equipment from Western countries, making the fight comparable to those in Middle Eastern warzones.
On Wednesday, Mexican TV channel Milenio published an article titled “Mexican cartels prepare for a war; they have military grade ROCKET LAUNCHER” that shows a video of a Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) member carrying a “military-grade grenade launcher during a checkpoint in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.”
Milenio’s Azucena Uresti identified the rocket launcher as a Raytheon-made FGM-148 Javelin. She noted the rocket launcher on the black market fetches anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000.
After further review, the rocket launcher might be an AT-4, a Swedish-made disposable anti-tank launcher, which was also sent to Ukraine with Javelins. Nevertheless, these military-grade weapons are turning up in Mexican border towns during the worst US southern border crisis in history.
Matamoros directly borders Brownsville, Texas.
But don’t worry because the Biden administration repeatedly states everything is fine on the border.
Scattered Shots 
The question is did these come from Ukraine or Afganistain?
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does it even matter?
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Perhaps not.
At the end of the the day, the who is important and it is the same person
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When I was a kid in Harlingen, 50’s and 60’s, not far from Matamoros/Brownsville, you could drive across the international bridge, park on the street, walk the Mercado, do most anything you wanted without any problems whatsoever, and drive back across the bridge without needing a passport. Vehicle inspections when crossing back were rare. It was, however, advisable to lock your car……..
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It’s amazing to me that while we’ve been screwing around in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Ukraine for a couple of decades, our southern neighbor has transformed itself into Somalia. Why isn’t this a bigger issue in political campaigns?
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both wings of the uniparty want to replace us
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Once you see it, you can’t un-see it, can you?
Trump took some flak a little while back because it came out that he asked about cruise missling a drug cartel. I don’t know if that’s a good idea or a bad idea but it strikes me as about 1000x more reasonable than escalation against Russia over which corrupt Eastern European kleptocracy rules Lugansk.
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yeah its reasonable to me. but i think he’s bought and paid for by Israel too
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He was clearly inadequate to his moment. But I think it’s hilarious that a two-timing blowhard game show host was obviously a better, more sensible president than all the grandees they have put up there over the last 30-40 years. He has a streak of common sense a mile wide compared to these DC swamp creature jokers.
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There will be a shitload of weapons showing up in the hands of Criminal gangs and political extremists for quite a while, Ukraine has been one of the most corrupt Nations on Earth for decades and that pulled CBS story claimed that 70% of materials sent there were stolen before reaching the troops.
Surely you’ve seen a pic of that suppressed M4 with all the doodads for sale on the dark web for $2,400?
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