Raise your hand if this actually surprises you.
A militant wearing the insignia of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) was filmed in the state of Tamaulipas carrying a US-made anti-tank missile launcher. Milenio TV identified the weapon as a Javelin, thousands of which were sent to Ukraine by the Pentagon.
Footage filmed in Matamoros on Monday and aired on Tuesday evening by the news channel Milenio TV showed a man with CDG patches armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a missile they said was the Raytheon-made FGM-148.
Over 10,000 Javelins from Pentagon stockpiles have been sent to Ukraine since last February, to the point where the US military has begun to run out of the missiles itself.
Milenio presenter Azucena Uresti noted on Twitter that the estimated value of a Javelin launcher on the black market was anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000, while the average cost of a missile was about $30,000.
Russia has repeatedly warned the US and its allies not to “stuff” Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, both because this risked a direct confrontation and since nonexistent controls would result in the weapons ending up in the criminal underworld.
A RT investigation in July 2022 found a variety of Western-supplied weapons, including anti-tank rockets, for sale on the “dark web.” Several months later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that $1 billion a month worth of Western weapons was ending up in the hands of “terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.”
Kiev has denounced this as “propaganda” and insisted all were accounted for.
Sure, I totally believe that outright bald faced lie from some Ukrainian media flunky.
Let us not forget that Biden left $85 BILLON dollars worth of American military equipment in Afghanistan for the Taliban to sell off or use as they saw fit also.
I would venture to guess that there is Black Market U.S. Military war fighting equipment all over the entire globe at this point.
The immediate implications of the Mexican drug cartels having a bunch of it ought to cause some ass puckering by the local police and border patrol agents along the wide open Southern border of this country.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see some of this stuff turn up further inland either.
The Cartels have running operations from Mexico to Canada already as it is, you just don’t hear about them from the MSM.
Keef is toast.
The cartels are in the process of taking back the southern states. Including Texas.
Our useless government is facilitating all of it.
Wake up, get ready and prepared. NO ONE IS COMING TO HELP US.
That tube on the picture you posted is not a Javelin.
Keen-eyed military experts believe the weapon in the Milenio footage may actually be the AT-4, a Swedish-made disposable anti-tank launcher, which is also in use by the US military and likewise supplied to Ukraine by the thousands.
The pic is definitively an AT-4, designated as such as it’s an 84mm HEAT round (Ate-Tee-Four.. get it?) Replaced the M-72 66mm LAW system around 1987-88. Easy to use, one shot disposable. Good for small light armor and bunkers
The transport containers they come in make for good hide storage
Not just ant AT-4, that is the inert training version. The solid yellow band is the giveaway. The real ones have a black-yellow-black band in the same spot. This is less harmful than an airsoft rifle.
Yes, it is indeed an AT-4. And if it’s a US-made version then the yellow stripe should indicate it is a training system. AT-4’s have been everywhere: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and also Ukraine. Supposedly there were many left in Afghanistan. Certainly I would hope that those were mostly the training variants. One way or the other, difficult to clearly establish how it got into the hands of the “cartelito” in the photo. But some people claim that it is not illegal to posses an empty device. I wouldn’t want to test that theory in court. But …
It makes perfect sense. If your country is essentially running a ‘war economy’, where you need to perpetuate conflicts for as long as possible, why wouldn’t you supply your oppo with weapons and equipment they’d need to prolong the fighting, while continually borrowing money (printing fiat currency) to arm yourself?
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild figured this scam out centuries ago.
Bingo. Good to hear from you. JL you are missed brother.
Meh.
They can already get anything they want, as the Mexican military and government are pretty thoroughly penetrated already, and there’s shittons of ex-Soviet stuff floating around and available from Tierra del Fuego to Brownsville already.
More isn’t better, but that horse left the barn 40 years ago.
Cartels who ship metric fucktons of drugs into the US every week from South and Central America aren’t going to have any trouble slipping in whatever hardware strikes their fancy, 24/7/365.
Look at the bright side: maybe some will find their way into friendly hands as well. 😉
I must admit that, to my shame, I have absolutely none of the items discussed, nor am I ever likely to. It’d be fun though, wish I wasn’t so skint.
Biden et al: “Okay that’s it. Americans are going to have to give up their guns untl this threat is over.”
If they have anti-tank weapons, they also have Stingers.
I note the gang member has some variant of the AK 47 family and body armor. He is as well equipped as any NATO soldier.
Does Mexico have a future? Maybe Fred Reed should consider relocating. But where?
Fed nd Vi moved into a gated community. I wonder how long that will be effective.
Anybody who parrots “Mexico is fine” mindlessly for years has already suffered terminal brain rot.
I wish them the best, but getting killed or otherwise molested there, or slinking back to the States with their tails between their legs when reality breaks, will never be mentioned in print.
Unfortunately, at some point “True Citizens of the Sovereign United States” will have to deal with those colored folks from south of the border.
May not be a bad thing remember who their arch nemesis is the DEA
Yes, but is it good for the Zelenskyys?
The AT-4 isn’t just an “Anti-Tank Rocket”. There are Loads for Concrete Structures, General Explosives, Fragmentation/Anti-Personnel, and Incendiary. An Excellent Infantry Weapon, second only to the Russian K-50 “Koronet”, which is a Duplex-Charge Anti-Armor Rocket that is designed to defeat ‘Reactive’ or Counter-Explosive Armor.
Yeah the Black Market Global Arms Trade right now has been flooded with US Hardware like this for some time thanks most recently to Biden’s A-Stan debacle. What folks don’t understand about the cartels, or any criminal narco insurgency really is they don’t need any help getting hardware like this for the simple reason most of them have an unlimited budget.
As we “celebrate” anti-gun month in June, clearly a majority of Americans do not see what is going on. The enemy is being armed by our government while US citizens are finding it more difficult to remained armed for protection.