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To underscore your point, here's an example of how easy it is to get god-tier military hardware in Mexico from one of the many people breaking bad across the bo

To underscore your point, here's an example of how easy it is to get god-tier military hardware in Mexico from one of the many people breaking bad across the border in the US. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming-mexican-cartels-inside-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming... This fella in Texas was selling .50-cals and miniguns straight to the Cartels for years. There are likely many, many more like him. Mexican think tanks have spent years trying to figure out how the hell to stop the massive flow of weapons into Mexico from Texas and Arizona. https://www.mexicoevalua.org/mexicoevalua/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/000PolicyBrief_Seguridad.pdf https://www.mexicoevalua.org/mexicoevalua/wp-content/uploads... US think tanks too, notably David Shirk at USD has done a bunch of work on this. https://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_gun.pdf https://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_g...

sukilot 6y ago
There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
- phobosanomaly 6y ago
  I think a lot of it has shifted over into meth as well, with the availability of cheap precursors from China, and loose security on ports. Can't stop it at the source anymore.
- nradov 6y ago
  In 2019 the Trump administration considered formally designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. They backed off on that approach, but had they gone ahead it probably would have led to drone strikes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635
- Teever 6y ago
  Dude that's how you get the child of American senators kidnapped andmailed back in pieces or another 9/11. Everything sounds simple in theory until you think of the consequences.
- vidarh 6y ago
  It's been tried. It didn't work.

sukilot 6y ago

There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.

phobosanomaly 6y ago
I think a lot of it has shifted over into meth as well, with the availability of cheap precursors from China, and loose security on ports. Can't stop it at the source anymore.
nradov 6y ago
In 2019 the Trump administration considered formally designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. They backed off on that approach, but had they gone ahead it probably would have led to drone strikes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635
Teever 6y ago
Dude that's how you get the child of American senators kidnapped andmailed back in pieces or another 9/11. Everything sounds simple in theory until you think of the consequences.
vidarh 6y ago
It's been tried. It didn't work.