THE DRUG CARTELS….. “ A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER”!

Yes, it was a typical Clancy movie and its objective was to paint the US government as the ultimate bad guy, but besides his bid to make more money off another action packed thriller, was Clancy really on to something? Are the drug cartels, the Mexican drug cartels, a Clear and Present Danger to the United States? My answer is yes, and if you don’t like that answer, I guess you can stop here and go do something else. If you are wondering what case I can make for this stance, then by all means, continue to read on.

Mass Migration:

Is the US in a crisis right now with the mass migration issues taking place along it’s southern and Southwestern border? To the folks who live along the coastlines, most likely not. It’s an issue that is over a thousand miles away and they only have to turn the channel on the cable news to avoid the whole topic. To the people who live along the border with Mexico, you know…….fly over country….. it’s an issue that touches your day to day life in almost everyway possible. Let me give you a number and then let me drive on. 30,000……….30,000 illegal entries in just 10 days! That is what the US Border Patrol announced this week. 30,000 in 10 days! It’s never happened to the US in that number. It is an unprecedented event and that’s why USBP put the statement out there. Okay, let me move on.

Factors behind the Mass Migrations:

Are most of these people from Central American nations? Yes. Are they leaving because their countries have become increasingly dangerous to live in? In most cases yes. What is creating this dangerous environment? A failed government? yes. A failed economy? Yes. A failed legal system? Yes. A complete lack of trust by the people in their governments? Yes. So, how did all of this happen? What factors have led to this level of collapse? Short version, who is to blame? If you ask the typical academic, their answer will rotate around the poor vision the US has had for the region for over a hundred years and it hurts me to say this, but they are mostly correct. The US has fixated on Europe, Asia and the Middle East since the end of World War I and folks, that was over 100 years ago! Now, the US has woken up to millions of people who feel desperate enough to take their children by the hand and start walking. Walking towards an unknown future. A future that is filled with danger and despair and yet, they walk. Well, is that it? The US just accepts it’s their fault and prepares to let anyone who wants in to just come on in? that seems to be the stance of one US political party. Oh by the way, when they show up, they are to be so eternally grateful for that stance they will vote for that party the rest of their lives and their children’s, children’s lives as well. No alternative motive there! As a friend stated a few weeks back, if those same people were White Russians and they were all wearing MAGA hats and T-Shirts, what would that same party’s stance be? Okay, let me move on. Yes, the US has failed Central and South America, but if the US is to make that an issue of the past, if the US is to “right the ship” of the Americas, how does it start? Yes, the past few Presidents have put into place a few policies here and there and even spent a few billion dollars on looking like they care about the issue, but in the long run, it changed nothing. The US and key partners in the region, Brazil, Columbia, Chile and Argentina to name a few, have to start a true course correction. They have to collectively address the fundamental issue, corruption.

What is the primary factor in the status of the Central American nations? Corruption. Corruption based on what? Drug money. How do you get a Honduran Police Officer to do his or her job when they can make ten times their yearly salary in a week by just simply not doing their job?  Folks. Here comes the hard part. You take out the people providing them the option. Yep, you take out the drug cartels. By the way, when you hear, “drug cartels”, don’t limit yourself to thinking in terms of cocaine or methamphetamine. Think in terms of stolen gasoline and human trafficking. Drug cartels have adapted to the market and the opportunity to make money has never been so good.

Let me speed things up. The cartels are the primary issue that must be addressed in the region. Until they are neutralized, the ability to stabilize the nations that are producing the people in the human waves will have no chance of stopping the flow to the US. The US cannot continue to address this issue at its border. That’s too late. That’s like stopping the car bomb at your doorway.

The Real Danger:

            Some of you have heard me mention this on Daniel Horowitz’s PODCAST, a guy who get’s it by the way, but the greatest danger of the US’s Southern neighbors being destabilized comes from the US’s enemies. A crisis on the US’s border is an event that draws resources and attention from other areas in the world. If I wanted the US to reduce its attention on Europe or the Middle East or even Asia, South China Seas, I would do everything I could to create a crisis in the US’s own backyard. With a little off the radar support here and there, it’s fairly easy to keep these Central America and even South American countries in crisis mode. Who is backing the current government in Venezuela by the way and why? Do the enemies of the US see the drug cartels as useful, proxy tools to disrupt the US? Yes. Did these same enemies try this same tactic with the spread of Communism in the region for over 30 yrs? Yes. Why should they not support, directly or indirectly, groups that can produce the same outcome? Have the enemies of the US refined the weapon of mass migration to bring about political change in the EU? Yes. Are these enemies willing to support this same weapon against the US? Yes. Look. The cartels are the primary reason the nations of Central America remain in a collapsed state, that and the US’s pathetic policies towards the region.

            Can mass migration destabilize the US? Take a look at Europe. Can the issue of mass migration further a growing divide between the American people? Yes. Do the US’s enemies see the US population as divided more than ever before? You just have to read their controlled media outlets to get that answer. The Coastlines don’t care, and one party is actually in favor of the whole event, much like the current government in Germany and look what that has gotten them. Yes, the US needs to start a huge project of realigning its priorities to systemically solve this crisis, but in the interim, one fact stands true. The cartels present a clear and present danger to the near-term stability of the US. It is time to identify them as what they are…..terrorist organizations. Stop calling them Transnational Crime Organizations. The impact of what they believe in, controlling whatever ground they operate on, is not different than any current terrorist group. Hamas is about power and money. Hezbollah is about power and money. The cartels are about power and money. They are terrorist. The US needs to treat them as such and then start the process of truly unifying with the whole region, not just looking down it’s nose at what is taking place from the coastlines. DC can begin to feel the pain of “fly over country” or that “fly over country” may just “deal” with the issue themselves and that is exactly what the US’s enemies dream of…… A US that is so divided, it no longer has any vision.

What I want to hear and I want to hear it NOW ……is…” Knife this is Variable”!!!