There is talk of taking the war to the cartels in Mexico and I have questions:
So how successful have drug interdiction efforts by the DEA and associated agencies and bureaucracies been so far?
We’ll just go back to 1972 to make the history simpler.
Once you eliminate the foreign importers (I am suspending my disbelief), how will this stop domestic production for a very hungry market segment? Will it involve anything that affects everyone’s liberties like surveillance, asset forfeiture & seizure and the militarization of police even further.
Will it require an even deeper surveillance of everyone’s financial transactions? Will it involve the elimination of cash to make surveillance and tracking easier? Will it result in many more SWAT and no-knock raids and the commensurate wrong addresses and and innocents maimed and killed? Do you think there will be no response or blow-back from the cartels once the kinetic war begins on the cartels which are intimately connected to the Mexican government?
Is the assumption that the contiguous border between the two countries is non-porous and there are no action cells sleeping this side of the MX border that can be activated? Is the assumption there is zero relationship between jihadist sleeper cells in America and the coyote/courier railroad that got them in the US undetected? Does the same apply to Chinese national sleepers?
Last, is the US assuming that American provision of advanced weapons to Ukraine will not incentivize Russian provision of weapons and technology to the Mexican government and the cartels?
Is anyone in government red teaming these questions left of bang?
SGM Vining would cast doubt too.
Discuss.
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