The Real Threat to US' Security is Right at its Border
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- Mexico is for the US, the most strategic country in the world. Though we are used to thinking of America as one of the most strategically blessed countries, the 2000 miles long frontier dividing it from Mexico is one of its most critical regions for its security. And that is because safe land borders allow for US power projection over the world.
However there is a small war happening now south of the US border, one that can be a potential geopolitical threat to America.
The Mexico-US border is a porous - vulnerable one making it hard to control and even harder to police.
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Table of content:
00:00 The Threat at the US-Mexico Border
02:40 Mexico's Geography
05:52 Why the Cartels are the US nearest threat
08:26 Cartels are like the Talibans
11:13 Triangulo Dorado
13:21 Why the US should cooperate more with Mexico
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Thank you!
What do you think of the role of Mexican cartel on US's security?
So far yet it has not really affected American security. Or most of Mexico. Considering More and more Americans are moving to Mexico city. Its the northern regions who truly suffer. I personally am against a US intervention. At least directly. Plenty of Mexicans would not want Americans to kill mexicans in mexico even if they are part of the cartel. What do you think?
Keep up the grewt work!
@@RK-cj4oc *"I personally am against a US intervention. At least directly. Plenty of Mexicans would not want Americans to kill mexicans in mexico even if they are part of the cartel."*
What if Americans were being shot and killed on their own turf by the cartel, would you be okay with intervention then?
(For clarification purposes, I am genuinely curious about your thoughts, I'm not trying to stir anything up. Too many people on CZcams incorrectly assume that I'm trying to imply hostility, when I am just curious.)
Somebody once told me the cartel bosses like to visit their labs with those boxy overpriced mercedes vehicles that can climb up a mountain at higher angles than the ones cops use.
@@rainerkinzinger555 G-Class trucks? Yeah, they have superior off road capacities compared to police vehicles, unless the Police use Hiluxes.
I have long believed the U.S. should end its role and security guarantees to Europe and focus on issues within and nearby itself.
ultimately Mexico will have to offer a much large percentage of the population, specifically young men, a realistic way out of poverty and into the middle and upper middle class to truly break the power of the cartels.
Mexico should join China’s BRI. USA will never deliver Mexico better living standards.
And invest heavily in infrastructure uniting the CDMx region with the north.
Ironically the US and US-Mexican trade plays a large role in that.
Stuff like relocating factories from China to Mexico, and free trade deals can be a lot of help to Mexico and it's economy.
The us will have to invest a lot to help with that. Ironicaly free movement across the border would help a lot with wealth creation in both countries.
@@Hession0Drasha Free movement across the border would cripple the US dude. Unending waves of cheap, low-skilled laborers flowing into the US would completely destroy the US economy and social stability.
If the US wanted to secure their border, it’s not about immigration, it’s about geopolitics and economic cooperation to counter why illegal immigration happens, not that illegal immigration happens.
We don't need to cooperate with ppl breaking our laws. We need a war and a military on the border. That would fix it
US should have its own Belt&Road initiative w/ Central and South America. It can be called the Sandino-Zapata economic corridor
Or just build a wall 🧱
@@Ken-lc1kg you understand how stupid, expensive, wasteful, and ineffective a border wall actually is right?
Except it is about immigration.
If we lived under correct law, immigration would be restricted to Whites, just as it used to be.
But we don't. And so the US will die, Whites will die, and when we are all gone, the world dies.
México is the most important geostrategical Country for the US, not only because of its strategic location just aside of the US, but because of the influence México can have with the rest of latinamerican countries in these turbulent days where the US needs allies.
I 100% agree. Mexico can be a economic model for the reset of Latin America. It's economy is more similar to that of Canada or a central EU country.
Mexico is not the most economically successful Latin country and they are not a partner to the US. Americans want a war with Mexico and we could easily dominate any Spainish speaking nation. We need boots on the ground in Mexico
latin america doesn’t do whatever mexico says lmao it’s always what the US wants
US NEEDS allies? Or US detractors need allies?
@@blancavelasquez9859 if you say so Ms. Velazquez
As a Mexican myself I feel the moral duty of giving my opinion because the situation is way more complicated than a 15-minute video. Also, I've seen firsthand that sources in English are unreliable and more often than not are subject to the media's political bias.
For starters, I couldn't help but notice that you got plenty of concepts from Stratfor's (now called RANE) "Mexico's Geographic Challenge" video, which has misconceptions that carried into yours:
a) While the Port of Veracruz is indeed the largest deepwater port in Mexico, the way you framed it exaggerates the weight it has. Mexico has more deepwater ports than any country in Latin America both in the Gulf and in the Pacific, and with current infrastructure, you'd need to go to Tuxpan if you wanted to reach Mexico City faster, for that matter. The reason why most commerce is done by land is simply because of the sheer trade volume of NAFTA/USMCA. For instance, the ports of Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific coast are the main points of entry of precursors for synthetic drugs such as fentanyl - a crucial topic that this video overlooked.
b) You also framed the flatlands near Veracruz as the only source of agricultural land, which is false. The state of Jalisco is the country's number 1 agricultural producer, Veracruz is number 2, followed by Oaxaca in the south, and then Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Michoacan. If you're seeing a pattern here's a rule of thumb: if you can grow food you can grow weed and poppy. This is why narco states are traditionally agricultural states.
With this out of the way, I must address that as with many videos on the subject, this exaggerates the actual amount of territory controlled by the cartels. In reality, this is limited to very specific roads and villages and frequently not over long periods of time. Yes, the more remote an area is, the more likely you will find cartel presence, but unlike insurgents, they are not claiming sovereignty over the land. In those places, there are community hospitals, schools, and infrastructure kept by the Federal and State governments.
As an example of how political bias stains the conversation, the current government started a program to build roads precisely to connect isolated communities in the Triángulo Dorado. One of these roads will pass through La Tuna, El Chapo's hometown (pop. 281). Being the tiny community that it is, El Chapo's elderly mom approached AMLO's van during a revision visit and gave him a letter in which she pleaded for his son not to be extradited to the US, as any 96-year-old mom would do. Obviously, the press started their machinations and led a vast part of the population to still believe that somehow this granny was a criminal mastermind and that AMLO's involvement with the cartels is undeniable because of this event.
On the opposite side of the coin, you have Genaro García Luna, another key figure in the drug war whom this video sadly glosses over. This man was President Calderon's Secretary of Security and the mastermind behind his War on Cartels (it was actually his first action upon reaching office). He was pointed out for his inexplicable wealth at the time but the media kept his record clean. As one of many mindblowing things that happened back in the day, a man that warned Calderon of Garcia Luna's criminal past was put in prison under made-up charges (he's now free). Fast forward to today and the man is awaiting trial in a New York Federal Court for arranging deals with the cartels, many times participating in person. There are hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence, tens of thousands of audio recordings, and even a Netflix series about this, but the media both in Mexico and the US give minimal coverage to this story. The amount of high-level corruption during the first years (2006-2012) of the war against cartels is mind-boggling and nauseating, to the point that some people can't even process it and keep supporting the Calderon narrative pushed down our throats by the media back in the day.
Another key point that English sources generally don't get right is the nature of corruption in the lower echelons of security forces. I'd consider this as a form of straight-up racist bias because they assume that Mexicans are just more corrupt by nature when in many cases officers start working with the cartels not because of bribes but because of direct threats on their lives or their families.
As for the Guardia Nacional, it is an effort that for starters will give territorial capacity to ensure security. For the first time, we will have forces that have their own barracks in remote cities, giving a geographical presence that wasn't there before. For instance, back in the days of Garcia Luna's Federal Police, the agents had to sleep in hotels and motels. Another important aspect is that since it is attached to the Army (such as the Géndarmerie in France and the Carabinieri in Italy) any corruption instances will be dealt with in military courts and not in the deeply rotten Justice system - another topic I could write pages on.
My own personal opinion is that it is simply impossible to "seal" a border. While the opposite is deeply ingrained in the American mindset, borders are a human concept in the end. As much as you try to build a wall, people will dig underneath if the incentives are sufficiently high. This brings me to my final point. The incentives are high because drugs are illegal. It's as simple as that. I say that Ronald Reagan himself is responsible for the mess we're in since the War on Drugs criminalized substances whose consumption comes from the fact that wealth-centric societies are not providing people with contentment in their lives, leading them to seek legal and illegal drugs as a form of escapism. To me, it really puts in perspective what's important, since the largest consumer of drugs is also the richest country in the world.
Peace!
P.S. You should really take a look at Mexico's total annual homicides graph if you want to get an idea of the progression of the situation. You will see when murder rates started going up and you will see the whole dynamic free of any media bias.
Thank you hermano, this American media always over simplify this like it was easy.
Thank you, this was a much needed counterpoint to the video itself which even while watching it, felt more like propaganda than information. Situations like this are always extremely complicated, and honestly, if we want truthful information about it to get out there, there needs to be a collaboration between Americans and Mexicans in regards to the whole situation, compiled into at least an hour long overview.
So basically, Mexico has 1 year to cleanse themselves of any cartel presence or we'll just raze anything and everything south of the Rio Grande. Got it. Get to work.
@@deltainfinium869 Thank you for taking the time to read!
Wow this was a very good comment. Can you link sources and further reading for your topics? I also seriously agree with your takes at the end of your comment about the states and was great to see you incorporate this with the US topics I already understood as it’s important to look at the whole picture with this subject.
Thank you for writing this lol
Americans: “Oh, no. Cartels are becoming stronger, which threatens US national security.”
Also Americans: “Let's sell weapons to drug cartels, and smoke weed every day. What could possibly go wrong?”
Cartels were created, funded, and sustained by the United States through the “war on drugs”.
There is no doubt the en-masse militarization of the cartel is fueled by how insanely easy it is to acquire and disappear American guns.
However, cannabis no longer funds cartels as its legalization has dramatically reduced the supply bottleneck into the United States.
I seriously hope you read this next part.
Prohibition of substances not only creates an unsafe supply, funds illicit militant groups, and limits research into alternative medical treatments. The banning of drugs disproportionately destroys the lives of the poorer classes and minority groups. This is not by accident, this is by intent, according those who orchestrated it. Cartels have the money and the means to try to move through other addictions or regular commodity markets. Even if all drugs were legalized overnight, no doubt these organizations would continue to use their resources to continue to expand. HOWEVER; Hindering their growth by cutting out unregulated markets would create safe avenues for supply and treatment. Importantly, there is no doubt it would weaken cartels themselves and save hundreds of thousands of lives from gang warfare, unabated addictions, poverty, and overdose.
EDIT: I had 4 sources included in this comment, CZcams considers this spam and blocks the message from being shown. DM and I’ll send your way! :)
🎶 _Smoke weed everyday_ 🎶
The majority of people would get behind much stricter gun laws as well as legalizing cannabis, therefore allowing it to be grown domestically. I’d argue the REAL threat to US security is the gun manufacturers, Capital owners, right-wing lobbying groups and politicians.
Obviously the cartels-and armed domestic militia groups/gangs-need to be taken seriously, but man… these things sure would help.
On point
hasnt the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana in many states more or less ended (or at least drastically cut) that particular drug as a supply of cartel profits?
Aquí en México nos preguntamos ¿cómo es que los carteles obtienen las armas? También sería interesante tocar ese tema y eso de que declaren a los carteles como terroristas no está mal realmente, sin embargo muchos opinan que es más bien una escusa de usa para invadir y hacer saqueos.
Saqueos de que?
@@ernie9538 Petróleo?
@@cristianhisoka2428 Liberta!!!🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Las armas Los amercanos las mandan. Y las drogas Ellos SE la fuman y SE la echan por la narisota. Mientras Ellos no ayuden para detener a SUS drogadictos nunca SE ba a terminar. Recuerda la operaccion rapido y furioso donde Obama y su administration mandaron armas y luego SE Les perdieron, y terminaron crimenes en donde murieron jente inocente. Mejor que nos den una explicacion y luego que pidan perdon por tanto Mal que an echo durante su historia que esta lleba de invasiones y muertes. Y luego Tambien nosotros pediremos person Todo pero ni ellos kieren y SI no kieren pues nimodo nosotros tampoco..
@@ernie9538 no gracias no quiero acabar como Afganistán
The US should be helping Mexico not Israel or other distant countries in defense. It’s much more crucial for the US security.
Also depends on how much help Mexico wants.
The US can walk and chew bubble gum. The US sends billions to Mexico.
Your comparison between Afghanistan and Mexico is extremely wrong, the government may be weaker than before because corruption has increased with this president but is not as ineffective as the afghan, second, Afghanistan hardly has any roads, northern Mexico is full of highways. The real problem is that both US and Mexico don't want to solve the drug problem, it's very good for the pockets of mexican politicians, and very good for the US to blame the internal problems on minorities and drug addicts, istead of having a Switzerland like approach to drug and gun problems, because the cartels also buy all their ammunition from the US. A joint effort between the 2 countries could terminate the problem rather easy, because cartels are not as strong as you put it, they dont control "vast" regions, they control unpopulated regions far from the capitals, they can attack a regional capital but would never even dare to hold it, they are not strong nor commited. You're giving a buch of cowards way too much credit, every time the mexican army faces against the cartels, the cartels get massacred. There is also a need for incentived to bring up businesses and honest jobs instead of just giving away money like the current mexican government is doing, lots can be done, but both countries dont care.
First as a Mexican I thank you for the time and effort you put pronounnsing some names, as well as acknowledge the name that we use to refer to the river at Nort of us Rio bravo.
Second
- a military intervention from the USA to the north part of Mexico will not work. Long story short look how the USA withdrawal from Afghanistan
- the USA gov has as much responsibility for this situation as the others 2 parts
- all the weapons that the cartel use come from the USA
- the cartel is not strong because they have weapon thus they have money instead: they are strong because they have money this they can afford weapons
Third
The real issue of the cartel problem is economic nature and not military one
- the do the same as any other USA company base in mexico:
The pay Penny on the dollar to their Mexico base " labor force" ( they pay in Mexican pesos)
And their revenue is on US dollars.
They are taking advantage of the labor cost between bought counties and the inequality product of the unequal treatments that we sign.
Finally
- we are economic partners but not allies ( yet or for any close future), thus is extremely unlikely the USA equip or trains the Mexican army as equal from a cost benefit perspective is not convenient for the USA and USA military.
The Americans were dominating in Afghanistan, even when they pulled most of their forces out.
Its not a matter of military capabilites, but a matter of political will.
All the wars that the Americans lost, were wars that they had no political will.
The Iraq war was 100% illegal, and had less justification than afghanistan. But look how the Americans won 3 times in a row. First with the 90s gulf war. Then with the invasion, and then with crushing the terrorists during the insurgency period..
This is entirely due to how Iraqis wanted a proper country back, and were willing to fight for stability.
Iraq and the US public had the political will at the time.
Now Iraq is a stable democracy, votes independntly from the US, and now is 2x richer than they were under Saddam.
All because of that political will.
The weapons the cartel has, are not from the US gov. Their from US gun shops and companies. They dont directly sell to cartels, but cartels smuggle the weapons anyways.
The US army and the Mexican army are allies. Important ones at that. The US armies job is to provide defence against foreign threats for the Mexican army, not domestic ones.
They share alot of equipment and defence infrastructure. Non-allied countries dont do this.
Mexico is inclined towards isolationism and neutrality. They are allies with the US the same was Sweden was.
If Mexico was to join NATO or any American defence alliance, it would simply be a formality.
The US does share some responsibility, but you cannot blame the Americans for what they do.
The CIA would select the most negotiable, most rational cartel group in Mexico, and kill off all their competitors.
By doing this, they monopolize the cartel industry in Mexico.
Now Cartels are more centralized and consolidated. Its easy to predict what Cartels will do, and its easy to controll.
The Americans did the same in Afghanistan. Once they realized the ANA was incompetent, they switched to the Taliban. They killed off all the Talibans competitors, to the point the Taliban faced no power vacuum when they took over.
The Taliban dont comitt terror internationally, and also have no interests in harming other countries like AlQaeda and ISIS do.
The CIA did to the cartels, the same they did to Terrorists.
This video is incorrect, as they assume that this hasnt been taken into consideration already
@@honkhonk8009 This is completely wrong - do you actually think Iraqis have a stable democracy and that they are richer than they were in the 1980s?
@@fra604 Stability. He hasn't heard of Muqtada Al-Sadr, or what happened to Adil Abdel Mehdi. Well, at least the government isn't using chemical weapons like Saddam. Iraq has more freedom of speech and religion.
@@fra604 Yes actually they are much richer, not quite 2-fold per capita, but close.
They do have something that certainly resembles democracy. Just recently we've seen the Iran backed party get voted out of power, something that certainly would not happen if the vote wasn't legitimate.
Yep cartels are fundamentally a economic problem for Mexico and for the US
A cynical view of this could be that the US doesn’t particularly want a stable Mexico. If you look at what the US currently extracts from its southern neighbour (cheap labour and natural responses) it receives them in a far more amenable way if Mexico is unstable. It gains the former due to people fleeing the political and economic issues, the latter it can negotiate favourable terms for by threatening to withdraw financial and military support from the Mexican government. The US may only care if the conflicts down south start actively affecting its own domestic policy, and considering drug murders in the border states have not yet shot up to levels that concern the federal government, the US’s current apathy might be politically justified (if not morally). Again this a very cynical view and not necessarily one I would support wholeheartedly, but it is interesting to think about.
You hit the nail on the head and that's exactly what's happening. The US knows at any moment they can tell the Mexicans "give us X" and Mexico will do it. That won't happen with a strong and stable Mexico
Do you have an economic argument for why the US would benefit more from trade with a poor neighbor than a wealthy one? Does the US benefit more from trade with Mexico than it does with Canada (adjusted for population)? Honest question. You can't exploit wealthy neighbors for cheap labor but you can export to them and benefit in other ways. It's not obvious to me which one is better, even though "the US wants to exploit poor Mexican" is a more emotionally compelling statement.
I like your profile pic bro
@@Var_ you raise a good point, but it could be argued that such a decision would be more political rather than economic. The US has a long history of propping up weak governments, particularly in Latin America in order to maintain influence over them. In most of these cases the political influence was considered more important any the potential trade or economic benefits that may arise from these nations being independently stable. It could be argued that a Mexico whose government is wholly dependent on the US is far more appealing to the latter, after all, why swap the security and influence it currently holds over its southern neighbour for just another market for which the US already has dozens all over the globe. A paranoid decision maker (and lets be honest, there’s a lot of those) could see a completely stable and functional Mexico as one that could muster the strength to make its own independent foreign policy decisions, perhaps some that don’t align with US interests and no-one wants another Cuba. A ‘less’ paranoid view (though still paranoid) could see an economically developed Mexico as one that could threaten domestic US markets, so far better to allow it to stay undeveloped and instead use the US’s enormous influence to extract the raw materials from Mexico that can be transported back to the US for manufacturing.
Again these are very paranoid views but who ever said those in charge would act rationally? Furthermore whilst I agree that “America exploits Mexico” is a hyperbolic headline, I find it hard not to see some level of morally dubious machinations going on in the two countries relationship as I can’t see another reason for the relative apathy displayed by US explained in the video, although I would welcome one.
@@Kill3rballoon Thanks for the reply. I still am not buying the idea that a developed country would threaten US markets. If Mexico magically became like, say, France, I suspect the US would benefit economically, not to mention the added stability and a "buffer" country against potential aggression or other issues in the south (e.g. refugee crisis).
Geopolitically I would agree, I do believe countries observe realpolitik despite what their official statements may convey, and it's likely the US has done the math and considers the current situation in Mexico to be the best path for now. But I bet if it could make it become France easily, it would. It would probably just be incredibly risky and politically fraught. To that end I find neither of your paranoid views irrational, they each have a certain likelihood that the US has taken into account.
On a positive note, I think in the next 50 years I'd love to see an alliance / trading block relationship form within the Americas. We largely have similar principles, similar beliefs, not a lot of historic conflict, lots of land, and geographical separation from the rest of the world. If things go to shit with Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Europe, Africa ... The Americas would do well to become strong allies. (I suspect the US govt believes this too, but is a biklt too shy from the failed democracy building in the middle east to try it again... Maybe just waiting to see what happens for now)
I liked this video, it's not the usual type of drug-related video where all the blame is put on one side (US or Mexico) and there's a deeper analysis of the geopolitical effects that cartels have.
I'm Mexican and live in Mexico City and we have lots of thoughts about the US being involved in Mexico.
1. There's not a good history behind US involvement in other countries, we don't want to see our cities looking like warzones, devastated by indiscriminate bombardments and urban fighting, although there are at times outbursts of violence (recently in the states of Baja California, Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Chihuahua)those are not normal or everyday things. Border cities are huge, Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juarez have more than one million inhabitants, and Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa have more than 500,000 thousand inhabitants, so any type of involvement there would be detrimental to its inhabitants since a lot of fighting would spill from rural areas to those cities.
2. There's an ongoing debate in Mexico about if the drug cartels should be considered terrorist groups, especially after recent events and after what happened in Culiacan in 2019, but there's fear as to how much the US is willing to go, will we see occupation in border cities? terrorist attacks against US troops stationed there? an attempt to secede by northern states or annexation by the US?
3. Centralization of the country. As you said, most people live in the Valley of Mexico than anywhere else in the country, but recently there has been an increase in the population of northern states because of the better wages and job possibilities, Monterrey recently became the second most populated city in Mexico, surpassing Guadalajara, with more than 5 million inhabitants, but it's still dwarfed by the massive population of Mexico City -20+ million inhabitants-. Historically, everything is in Mexico City, jobs, healthcare, government, universities, sporting events, etc. this has only changed a little in recent years, especially after NAFTA.
4. Mexico is very urban, as you said, there're huge unpopulated areas of land, where illegal activity thrives since nobody really cares about what happens in those sparsely populated zones. The Culiacanazo (as we refer in Mexico to the event that took place in Culiacan in 2019) showcased how most of the Sinaloa Cartel sicarios came from the towns outside of the 900,000+ Sinaloan capital city.
5. One thing that almost every video fails to talk about, is how Mexicans are tired of the Drug War. After then-president Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs in 2006, northern cities became war zones. Bombs, ambushes, arson, massacres, urban fighting, etc. were commonplace in Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Laredo, Tampico, and more, now, even though the number of homicides and crimes have not changed substantially, and even have increased in some years, the feeling of fear in most of these cities is long gone, nightlife has returned, there's tourism, investment and so on. You can even call it a "false sense of security" or even a normalization of crime by the inhabitants of these cities. Although it should be mentioned, that some cities have substantially reduced crime levels, like Monterrey, Tampico, or the whole State of Coahuila.
I have several more thoughts about this issue, but I don't want to write a small essay in a CZcams comment section.
Great video!
Fuck it the essay was already good, I'd read more. What you wrote gave a very good perspective of life and even some similarities in our ways of thinking. For example, we Americans also have a false sense of security issues when it comes to our crimes and maybe even worst due to propaganda on the US. We also can be said to have been normalizing crime thru things like our music and even our traditions that are very self centered
Mexico, Central America and Colombia’s problem is the USA drug market. A war against crime won’t solve anything, especially if money and weapons keep coming from the USA. Canada, the USA and Mexico will eventually have to fuse into a confederation, such as the EU, for political and economic reasons. To solve the issue in a short term, the USA will have to either change its politics on weapons and drugs (which means turning the country upside-down), invade Mexico military (which would be like shooting itself on the foot) OR accelerate the process of union.
The "War on Drugs" is really a "war on people" in the US, in Mexico, in Colombia, in Afghanistan. The governments empower the cartels with harsh drug laws and limited access to drugs that people want. Then the gov goes to war with the cartels, and innocent people die in the crossfire. Cocaine gave way to meth in most of the USA, and that drug is 10x worse than white powder. Doctors warned that street violence and rampant addiction would happen. They made that warning letter before WW2. We've known for decades that doctors should have been dealing with addiction, not police & military.
Woo, you just pointed out all I wanted to comment.
As someone who lives in Tijuana I can confirm we unfortunately have normalized the violence. Sadly there’s not much we can do, nothing else than keep living.
1) USA doesn't have to get involved for Mexico to declare cartels as terrorists, upgrade military weapons, and minimize the cartels since its already a warzone anyway.
2) Mexico should label cartels as terrorists since nothing will change about it.
As a Mexican I have to say that in LATAM, the United States is seen more as a threat than a friend, especially in Mexico where there is still a desire to recover territory.
When the United States lost Afghanistan, many people celebrated.
Estados Unidos es un buen modelo para el mundo con sus sistema económico pero la política exterior de Estados Unidos históricamente a sido muy hostil con respecto a Latinoamérica debido a esto muchos lo ven como enemigo, por eso se alinean a Rusia o a China, de hecho China en Sur América a invertido mucho más en infraestructura por lo que se a vuelto mucho más útil su alianza y a beneficiado más que los golpes de estados patrocinados por la CIA en los años 70
@@eltecnico9541 the US is literally 20times richer than Russia but the US doesn't even build infrastructure for other developing countries the US l don't get it😖😪😪🥲
@@eltecnico9541 Buen modelo? Si todo el mundo consumiera como consume Estados Unidos nos harían falta 7 planetas Tierra. Su sistema económico es muerte e insensatez.
I think that if the United States (as well as mexico) made the border a less hostile environment, it would not only help both economies (more labor in the US more money in Mexico), but would it would also relieve general tensions, and perhaps even help with the war against cartels.
US should of taken over Mexico back when they had the war, that way they be able to control the border a lot easier between Mexico and Guatemala 🤦
Mexico and US's relationship has been rocker than helpful over the last 8 years which hasn't helped.
The us and Mexico have never had a good relationship, the US has been at ‘war’ with Mexico (or Mexican Revolutionary groups) more than they’ve had, anywhere else
The 2016 election showed that all a U.S candidate has to say to get to power is "screw Mexico". How do you think us Mexicans felt about that? For centuries foreigners have taken advantage of Mexican hospitality to the point that we are hated for it. The world hates us and sees us nothing more than a doormat. Every time we've extended our hand to the outside we've been stabbed in the back, front, top bottom everywhere.
@@Halcon_Sierreno wow that’s a large oversimplification of a thing, no a candidate doesn’t have to say ‘screw Mexico’ and poof you win, evident by how that same candidate that you *think* won by *solely* doing that lost his reelection bid
He didn’t even say screw Mexico though that’s the best part, he simply said we need to secure our southern border from the excessive crime that Mexico is unable to stop
Also, what? What ‘taking advantage of Mexican hospitality and getting stabbed in the back for it’? What does that even mean? The world doesn’t hate you either
We need a war with Mexico and a military on the border
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Hello Kamome, once again you have showcased your ability to shatter expectations and push your limits. The visual mapography was once again stunning. Continue keeping up with the good work on your Geostrategic analysis, they never fail to deliver.
- Citizen A
Thank you so much Citizen A! Really appreciate your support and feedback👍
@@Kamome163 yes everything desert
Jajaja puñetas
I live in Mexico dude I’ve researched this, the cartels are losing there leaders left and right they are not putting up a real fight
They don't want to make it worse by getting the U.S. involved
We need a war with Mexico, problem solved. We could easily wipe Mexico off the map
the ameircans wont like hearing this
Apparently, defeating leaders splinter drug cartels, which in return, turn more violent.
The difference between Afghanistan and Mexico is that there is a vast amount of Mexican Americans in America and Mexico, they share citizens almost. Afghanistan is a whole other thing of people place and history.
Absolutely right. The comparison is about Af and MX geography and the Cartels and the Talib
No they don't. Those are Mexicans plating both sides. Very few actual Americans even want to be in Mexico for more then one weekend
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@@Kamome163 The cartels are bing paid by the US citizens
God I love the map animations in your videos! Another amazing video, keep up the great work!
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Thanks man! Really appreciate that 🙌
Hey you have a great channel too, I really appreciate your work 👍
Mexico’s total fertility rate is 2.17 and dropping Afghanistan’s is 4.82 and, while dropping a bit faster than Mexico’s, will mean they population will continue to grow much longer than Mexico’s. Wars require young people to fight them both because of the physical demand and because people become more risk adverse as they get older.
There is a need to increase physical and institutional security at the US/Mexican border until the population starts really falling but it is not a long-term crisis. Some of the solutions mentioned here are moving on the right track. Mexico, and especially the US will adapt and change policy as the problem becomes more prominent.
We are making robots that can run jump and fire weapons one soldier can control 10 robots ,
Yep, and it has actually dropped faster than expected in previous projections.
100,000 of american citizens are dying because of the fentanyl and 300,000 of mexicans because of the bullets of the war on drugs; the problem is already prominent...
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The problem with our security is our own people are thinking that security is somehow racist when its simply about security. Those who have seen no warfare won’t understand how crucial security is until they lose their lives.
I didn't get your point
@@yomilala8929 The problem we have with border security in the U.S isn’t about race at all, its about ensuring the safety of U.S citizens. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration and border protection yet drugs coming into America are so high. Democrats don’t want border security because they think it’s racist, on the other hand republicans want border security to prevent opioids, cocaine and much more coming here not to mention the crime.
@@Juandisimo3 i mean yeah but republicans could also work to make companies stop selling weapons to cartels, punish americans who consume and buy drugs and give more legal job opportunities to mexicans and i don't see them doing that 🤔
Besides, some republicans are indeed pretty racist and Trump showed that when he attacked the mexicans
Saying "Mexico is like Afghanistan" is a huge stretch.
Geographically it is like Afghanistan, it has a lot of high, arid mountains in the northern regions closer to the Texas and New Mexican borders
Let the CZcamsr pump that cartel ego, just one slip from them and the U.S. will erase them off the map.
@@jonthegamerboy difference is Afghanistan is far away from the sea and accross the world and Mexico is right next to the U.S. next to an ocean and a sea. That only means one thing, consistently bombing the cartels woth 2 carriers on either side. If the cartels are smart, they won't pull the pin on that grenade and won't bother the U.S.
@@iamaloafofbread8926 you’re right about the sea thing but… as someone who lives in the border region, we get drug busts on the highway every other day
@@jonthegamerboy No it isn't, Mexico is way more diverse than that. This is not a Breaking Bad desert kid.
The quality of these videos are insane. I have no doubt you will grow exponentially within the next year or so. Keep it up buddy
Makes you wonder who is really paying for them...
We know the KKK is not colonial Dignidad so who’s behind the ‘New England Patriots’
@@juliocortazar8143 Never heard of Patreon on CZcams huh
@@singularityraptor4022 Really, man? You really think they can make a production like this with patreon and you tube adds?? Come on...
Why would the CIA want to eliminate their cash cow ?
CIA has nothing to do with the cartel. The world is alot bigger than drugs for the CIA. We are a global power unlike Mexico
Seriously Westerners tend to ignore all the top names of.the drug business are Feds.
@@ernestkhalimov1007 that's because is obviously not true. Doesn't mean they have never been bad agents. The feds have zero incentive to work against America, obviously.
@@ernestkhalimov1007
Can you share what books you read or information you saw that convinced you without a doubt, that this whole issue is exactly and as simple as the feds own everything?
@@elpiedron3889 Just read up on the Iran Contra scandal by the Reagan administration that occurred after Nicaragua successfully sued the USA at the UN to which Reagan backed down from openly supporting to covertly supporting right wing deaths squads in Nicaragua El Salvador and the genocide in Guatemala by funneling money from weapons sales to.Iraq in the Iran Iraq War.
Read up on the Dirty War
Read up on Operation Condor
And watch History Channel program Cold War Warriors. Etc
As always you never cease to axe me. I especially love the Afghan Comparison especially. I hope to see more Latin American Content in the future. The Super Secret Society is pleased....
Wow very high quality video and commentary. Thanks!
As a Catholic, I 100% support Mexico 🇲🇽
As a happy, festive Atheist, I also support Mexico 🇲🇽!
To the moon and back! My favorite country on Earth
Estas bien guapo
Lol
Mexico lindo y querido, como mi Mexico no ay otro 🇲🇽
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Que tiene que ver?
@@komander709 A los mexicanos los ciega el nacioanalismo, ironicamente es lo que mas le critican a los gringos.
@@green-eyesgreydragon7451 yep , they always whining about racist gringos but they are more racist towards the central Americans
A wuevo!!🤩
Holy moly the map animation at 4:26 looked so incredibly good i don´t even know how to describe it.
Also great choice for a topic. Have never seen anything about this aspect before!
USAmericans should stop taking so much drugs and giving cartels so much money but I guess that is too much to ask...
Easier said than done. They are addicts after all...
Well done! Another great video! Can’t wait for the next one!
I truly think we should annex Mexico into the US and then later if Canada wants, annex Canada United Countries of America would sound real nice and we'd be far more powerful than every other country/ continent
The North Atlantic States of America
Do not get me wrong but telling other countries to 'annex themselves' instead of proposing an actual union is the direct way to get the door shut on you
no
@@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067 i dont think he truly understands what annex means. Cause op proposing it like a Union.
@@ingenieroriquelmecagardomo4067 also how would you feel about a North Atlantic States of America
The military in Mexico has become increasingly stronger and very effective fighting the cartels. Too bad this is not discussed.
The Human rights and other random bullshit like that don't Let the military act
@@madaxgaming6405 they’re pretty brutal even so. They have to
@DennisEstrada that's a campaign slogan meaning focus on root causes without all out war like before.
@@madaxgaming6405 human rights are bullshit????
Yeah if mexico had a bigger military budget ot would be better. The Mexican people are tired of this. But when you can make $30k off one kilo of cocaine it's hard to combat that. The USA needs to decrease its need for drugs.
This is such a narrow and simplistic description not taking into account the huge economic growth Mexico has had. Most immigration through Mexico is from Central American countries.
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El tuerto es rey entre ciegos
“Ten-hundred thousand” love the script proof reading lmao
Super interesting, I never thought to compare Mexico to Afghanistan. But once you dig into, like this video did. You really see how alike they are. Well done 👏
Thank you Justin! I really appreciate that!👊
I love your maps man!
Grandma bought a house in the ghetto of Denver and the Mexican cartel made her paid to not get beat up just a couple years ago that s*** better not come to Minneapolis
I just have a same grandmother livening the same block giving money to the cartel for protection while many people say defund the police. Police Service reduced to the point that cartel offer to protect us and they deal with other cartel gang territory expansion with American citizens funding the cartel by paying protection fee monthly.
That's why the 2nd Amendment is valuable, except that an individual can't defend from a cartel, but a neighborhood militia can.
Your grandma is a coward
@@Moses_VII If you show up with a gun they will show up with a machine gun
As a Mexican, I think is also important to mention that the lack of regulation of guns in the U.S is also a great advantage to the cartels. Its YOUR guns that are killing US.
its the other way around, its mexcian weapons seeping into the usa not the reverse; mexico failed to stabilize its nation and it dangers both of us
Also most meth and heroin are produced in mexico
@@franknwogu4911 I would invite you to do some research on the Operation Fast & Furious and look up how many gun stores are in México and who owns them. Have a great day.
😂😂😂 You r funny Pedro !
@@ricardodaguer that's a minor portion, can we blames guns in Somali which (which are Russian) on the us and we can see the weapons the cartel uses aren't authorized in the USA
this video was fascinating. The quality of your videos in both form and content are exceptional. Hope to see you with a million subs next year
new to the channel - very neat graphics!
Just bumped into your channel and the quality is just incredible. Both visually and content-wise. It was a true pleasure to watch. Keep it up and all the best!
Thank you so much!
And like Americans are really silly, like no one in Mexico feels like this is a war, Americans seeing terrorism and wars everywhere is dangerous to the USA.
You don't speak for every Mexican.
You don't speak for all Americans
@@geridamas935 People like this are the kinda people that don't know anything but have alot to say.
@@iamaloafofbread8926 and who's fault is that? That's the news media gaslighting and misinforming people like him.
And just as I predicted, this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
No, you can’t control a nation by control if it’s main Port. That’s stupid.
You can, if thats the way to get your military supplies to fuel your invasion, thats exactly what happened in the mexican american war, they caved their way into mexico city, and not even our chief military commander at the time Santa Anna got to sign the document, they sold us out with a gun pointed at them.
Thank you for the amazing vid. Keep up the great work!
Yes! I’ve been saying something similar to this for some time now!
The US’s primary foreign policy concern should be stabilizing and establishing good relations with Latin America
I may be white, but as someone who grew up near the border and has lived much of my life in a majority Latin community, I feel terrible that the US does nothing to help the countries to the south of us
In my opinion, we should take the successes of the Marshall plan and apply them to Latin America
With American investments and defense capabilities, LATAM could easily drive out the cartels and build their economies up to par with the developed nations, and provide the US with a powerful new trading bloc and unquestionable hemispheric dominance in the process
Perhaps I’m biased, and I know most of the population of the US doesn’t give a damn about Latin America, but I feel it’s for the best of all involved
Start with your local big pharma cartel. Put them under control and then look somewhere else.
Heh, "Latin". You insist on using European terms to keep referring to us.
The US can definitely do much good to Mexico and the Mexicans. A major problem south of the border are the social and economic inequalities, that partially stems from the Mexican state inefficiency.
@@Kamome163 The U.S doesn't really want that. If we're all rich who's going to pick your vegetables and give you five star vacations for the price of a three star one?
@@Halcon_Sierreno Africa, Asia no need to be so egotistical about yourselves.
I've been following since your first video, i see lots of improvement i your skill. keep it up man
What a great video Kamome Squad!
US media has really done a number for people’s perception of Mexico’s geography/climate. I think most Americans picture Mexico as a giant desert, when in reality it’s pretty varied.
Those mountains and the relative lack of rivers really made it difficult to develop economically. It just made it very costly to transport goods.
Meanwhile, the US has lots of navigable rivers that reach deep into the interior and lots of bays that made perfect natural ports. So it was easy for the US to develop an industrial economy.
ST! On point!
You copied Caspian Reports's video on México without giving him credit.
When he said if Mexico was stretched and flattened because of the mountainous terrain, it would be the size of Asia, Caspian Report said the same thing.
@@jeffs4483 exactly 💯
ta fuerte la situacion
Where is the aggressive orange filter over Mexico?
This whole video is "With America's experience in Afghanistan, Mexico can beat the cartels" but reality says something closer to "With America's experience in Afghanistan, we can expect 20-30 years of war that will end with a cartel victory"
The taliban flag waves over Kabul for a reason. The US absolutely sucks ass at non-conventional warfare.
Add to that 5-9 months of fighting the Mexican military until the government surrenders to US forces. So the cartels and insurgency groups would receive large amounts of battle hardened soldiers who would hate the US and the puppet Mexican gov they would most likely install.
Really good work 🎉
560 metres you say? That is indeed a very mountain! I like how you can spout words without a flicker of understanding what they mean :D
That's 5600 mt
Awesome video Kamome! By golly the maps and animations were GORGEOUS 😃Fantastic comparison imo between Mexico and Afghanistan, and the Taliban and Cartels. Those were all great comparisons to make imo.
I was shocked to find out only 2% of their GDP comes from sea trade. I would have assumed it would have big ports on the pacific and atlantic much like the US and Canada, at least in the more narrow part of the country SE of Mexico City where the Pacific and Gulf are closest together. Damn, 90% of shipping in Mexico is via truck? Pretty crazy to hear, I would think that intermodal (railroad) infrastructure would be much more prevalent for shipping freight north/south to and from the US/Canada. Intermodal is more secure (harder to steal a whole train, and they cant leave their tracks, rail cars in bottom wells cant be broken into, etc), requires less manpower, less wear and tear on roads, and generally more efficient than shipping long distances via truck.
Interesting video, as you say is a market supply and demand issue, up to 29 billion usd. As long as the market keep demanding ilegal drugs, there will be cartel that will provide them.
Also in Mexico weapons are ilegal for law (really complicated to even apply for a small caliber gun for self defense), the funny thing is that cartel smuggle from USA the guns they use to remain in control. They smuggle the guns in some many creative ways into Mexico.
If their fire power is limited and restricted it would be way different the story you are telling.
How was that cool looking map made? what software? pls do tell
Before you start, no, we don't want your "help" like in Afghanistan. We all know how that turned out...
Ok, and what policies is the US going to apply to stop drug addiction of their citizens?
Because everything is wrong with Mexico, but they always forget to speak about the drug problem in US, there are plenty of videos of zombie people in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Excellent as always. It would be great to see some action on the demand side from the US as well. I think a more responsible drug and healthcare policy (and I'm not talking about legalizing all drugs) could help reduce demand for drugs produced on illicit sources. And on the supply side, I don't deny hard force is necessary, but reducing the rates of abject poverty in those areas would go a long way. I'd be lying if I said I knew how that would be done tho.
None of that is gonna happen because the usa is the most corrupt country in the planet.
Thanks Eric! :) For sure if there's supply there's a demand. Solving Mexico's social and economic inequalities is a major step in addressing the cartels issue.
you are EXTREMELY underrated
How do you design these videos?
Blender!
the american government could solve this so easily by legalising drugs. safe/legal avenues to buy drugs from mean no ones gonna buy them from dealers and means no money is going to the cartels. its not like criminalising drugs actually stops people from taking them, it just makes the people who are addicted less likely to recover because it makes their lives more unstable.
100%
The problem is that would weaken the cartels thus ending a huge problem for Mexico and that would mean Mexico would become stable so we can't have that
We’re all too busy worrying about the immigrant “invasion” than the actual problem
It's part of the same problem. The cartels smuggle drugs, and they smuggle people. They can smuggle drugs among the people. Hell, threaten some immigrant to take some drugs and hand it off to someone. Sneak some cartel members across the border, or even terrorists.
great video - just super confused at 7:38: why is there a texas flag if it's the capital of new mexico?
Some say this region never recovered from the infamous Spanish Conquistador Nuño de Guzmán. Ever since then, people in this area never trusted central authority.
Pancho Villa: Gets resurrected
US border patrol: Why do I hear boss music?
I think you meant to say that Mexico’s highest mountains reach up to 5.600 meters rather than 560 m at 2:50 😅
loll yea
Well done 👏 The animated graphics are amazing. I have never seen something like this. Subscribed!
What do you use to create all your amazing maps?
wtf is this guy talking about
did he even do any research, or is he just going by what he heard on twitter?
Of course, there’s poverty and narcos in this country, but in our daily life we rarely think and talk about it, Mexico is the 14th economy of the world and the second most important commercial partner for the US, we aren’t a shithole as many want to picture us, people usually has job here and the young people aren’t thinking anymore to move to the US, If you check statistics almost 80% of the people trying to enter to the US is from central america and Venezuela right now
14th biggest economy???? I'm sorry but after the number 2 all the rest of the economies are so far behind it's not worth counting. Mexico isn't even the biggest economy in Latin America. Mexico is not even a modern country
"In the north, the mountains meet the *Sonora and Chihuahua Deserts.* The lack of major geographical features apart from the Rio Grande...has made this into a porous region."
It's interesting that you mention two deserts on the border and then in the next breath deem that border 'porous.' By that logic, all of the US east coast is free real estate because the only thing separating it from the rest of the world is the Atlantic Ocean.
The big, unanswered question is this : why has the US been unable to stop drug trafficking inside its territory? Cartels are wholesale organizations and are not interested I the retail and distribution process. Somehow cocaine deliveries from el paso to new York seem to be a constant flow that local authorities seem unable to stop.
(1) call off the war on drugs. same deal as with Prohibition. (2) promote economic growth. Economies generally progress from primary resource extraction to manufacturing to services. The US economy is now mainly in the service sector; manufacturing should be outsourced to low labor-cost countries like Mexico and China. Sorry about the rust belt, but capitalism is a process of "creative destruction". The answer is to invest in infrastructure and human capital, as the US did with the GI Bill and the Interstate Highways Act. Also modernize the economies of places like Detroit, where land is now dirt cheap. Why is Windsor across the border doing OK while Detroit sinks into ruin? Canada is also a capitalist country, but not as ruthlessly gung-ho as the US.
There won't be any hope of solving the cartel problem in Mexico unless the situation with poverty improves dramatically. You aren't going to be able to convince people who live in poverty to turn down an opportunity to make substantial amounts of money by selling drugs to rich people in a foreign country. At this point, asking Mexico to give up drug trafficking is like asking Las Vegas to give up gambling. It's not going to happen. If the US is going to solve its drug problem, its going to have to solve the problem inside its own borders.
Luckily though Mexican cartels aren't nearly as dangerous as terrorist groups like ISIS. You don't hear about cartel members being suicide bombers or about them trying to actually overthrow the governments of the US or Mexico. They are motivated by money, not killing infidels and forcing people to live under Islamic law.
The Cartel issue is intertwined with Mexican politics, social inequalities and economic conditions, and to solve the crime, one needs to solve those first.
I don't necessarily agree. They might not have suicide bombers, but they do down Mexican military helos, ambush armored vehicles and use explosive against law enforcers. If suicide bombers is the main difference, they plenty make up for that with other means.
@@Kamome163 I say end the war on drugs. And I hate drugs. But the war has not worked. It has backfired exactly how anyone with a brain could see. When you ban something, you create a black market. People who are brave and violent are the ones most able to flaunt the governmental apparatus. They don't fear dying or going to jail. And they get rich because the demand is there and people cannot get it any other way.
If we could be naive at the start, then we must have learned by now. A ban does not end demand, or inherently dry up supply. If anything, it increases demand, and supply follows demand. The violence and terrorism is from violent individuals who are making bank. In a fair society, they would be in jail or dead, or in the army or police. In another time they might be conquistadors or gladiators. But it just so happens that in our timeline, they can get rich dealing drugs.
Same with the war on Terror. You cannot kill Terrorism. You could push a button and kill every terrorist, but terrorism is an idea that outlives man. We created more terrorists like ISIS and the Taliban during the War on Terror. We killed plenty, but that's not how you win that war. We did the right thing by pulling out of the Middle East. We couldn't do the things that bring victory there without literally colonizing the place.
Closer to home, we can do a lot more. But the answer isn't to send the US Army into Mexico to drone strike Cartel Member's homes. That will probably just end up in actual Cartel Terrorist attacks inside the US. I would be all for fighting that war, no matter the cost, if that was our only option, but it's not. And I also don't think it's an option to wait for Mexico to clean up its act.
You put out a fire by taking away the oxygen. We end the drug war, decriminalize it, educate people on why drugs are bad, and treat those who suffer from addiction. No part of my proposal hinges on accepting drug use as ok. In fact, much of drug's popularity is based on being edgy and anti-authority. The other part is on lack of economic opportunity.
With all the money and attention aimed at the drug war, which is a Special Interest Group at this point, with all the money being spent on it, it's almost like a divide and conquer scenario. Both the police and the cartels make more money with the drug war ongoing. Why would either side want it to end?
That literally has an easy solution.
End the drug war and watch the volume of drugs and violence all dry up.
The drug war doesn't end because the US government doesn't want to lose its narcotics cash cow that they use the profits from to fund colour revolutions right-wing death squads and regime change across LATAM and the world.
And gullible people who are either too racist or naïve to understand the glaring root cause of US policy.
The cartels have power because the terrorist american government gives them weapons and immunity withe the "human rights" organizations. The u.s rejoice in watching other suffering thats why the u.s is falling apart with the same hate they put out there.
Nice stuff
As Mexican it makes me mad that the united states think they can just go and tell everyone in the world what to do. First of all Mexico is a country where we have law's and a constitutional book, just like the USA does. And if invaded we will not stay whit our arms cross🤫 is not like back then when we didn't had anything to defend our selves. And I am pretty sure that other countries will back us up no one is going to invade Mexico with our suffering the consequences. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽 cabrones y que vivai LINDO Guanajuato Mexico un soldado cada hijo TE Dio y yo soy uno de ellos 🔥
Legalize, tax, and regulate all drugs. Destroy the cartels in this way. The way you stop this is by legitimizing the trade and out-competing them. They are one of the obstacles to legalization in many countries.
Yep, just look at Prohibition, the War on Terror, and this very own War on Drugs. Banning something doesn't stop it. I think the real reason is that some people high up in the US are making bank off the illegal drug trade. Hell, the police get expanded budgets to deal with it. Both sides are profiting off this phony war.
This video is incredibly well designed and informed. You deserve way more subscribers for this.
Wow, thank you!
As aolways, a great video !
Why is it that all i can think of is “ AVOCADOS IN MEXICO”
Damn this quality is on *fleek* bruh
Great video. Amazingly done. Also containing original thoughts one can not find any where else. There are some reasons to be concerned. A country, if felt threatened can react vigorously. Almost all wars historically are based on fears. Even the UShas not been immune: one has seen this in Cuba in 1962, leading almost to WW3, and having consequences until now, the Vietnam war (considered as a confinement war against communism) or in 2001, leading to invasions of other countries with devastating consequences like in Irak or Afghanistan. The cartels could become a problem also in the US in the future. One might be forced to rethink the war on drugs worldwide and take into account the consequences of policies which make it into such a profitable business. The video is somehow an eye opener, especially with respect to the economics of drug production.
Thank you so much Oliver. I agree with you, fear is a real factor that we should take into consideration in regard to the cartels issue. The trend is that these are becoming more violent, era expanding to new types of drugs, and have more powerful weapons than in the past. If now these are more of a potential threat, what will they look like in 20-50 years from now?
Afghanistan was justified though. But otherwise you're absolutely correct.
Good stuff.
Great vid
USA doesn't have the most strategic location and advantage. That goes to the Arab world especially middle east, as well as Indonesia. USA geography alows only Pacific and Atlantic view. Basically view on N and S America, a bit into Europe and far east Asia.
USA is the responsible of how Mexico looks like today from Cold War era. Also they fought Mexico in 19th century.
CIA uses Mexico for bs.
This documentary was not just good visually but also incredibly informative
Thanks man! Really appreciate it
Simplistic, too.
One thing that makes all the difference between cartels and the Taliban, is that their motivations are completely different. While the Taliban have deeply religious and political motivations for their terrorist activities, the cartels do not. They have no religious or patriotic fervor keeping them motivated to fight against a vastly superior force, and they have no shared identity to keep them under a single chain of command.
Military intervention, a serious one, will simply make them fold and make their structure crumble. They will never go away as long as there is a demand for illicit drugs, but the powerful cartels will simply disappear and be replaced by smaller cells, easier to destroy.
Mexico is at war, but it has never taken this war seriously.
There’s entire Gangs in cities as Throughout the country aligned to these organizations. At your door steps
It all makes sense now this is why Byron doesn’t wanna order to be secured he wants us to be overthrown
Don’t get it twisted
They may have guns and heavy weapons like the 50 cal.
However weapons need upkeep to stay functional, you also need a little know how to zero your sight and keep it zeroed in case you drop the gun or something
Not to mention a lot of the time 50 cals are a lot of the time used without a scope and only really used to take trucks out of commission.
And sure some have some gun training and some are being taught by ex military,
But how good that training serves the members is yet to be seen..
Videos show a lot of these guys shit their pants and start blind firing as soon as shit hits the fan.
Also they avoid even the Mexican army because they get clapped on the daily.
I doubt the US military will need much to take out cartels members themselves
However the cartels as a whole are are a different issue.
They are not ready for open war with the US. But they don't need to be. You don't need to zero your sights if all you really need is cause fear.
This is why I think the cartels will always mantain a low profile in the US, as to avoid provoking the ire of the public. They have Mexico by the balls already, only having to contend with their rivals.
Cartels already have a reach in the USA
There are also cartels in the US. Do you think drugs distribute themselves once they cross the border?
@@goxdie000 true, but since i am not American i know few stuff about that
"Mountains SO high, up to 506m" this part sounds satirical.
"Peter Zeihan" i understand this video is only for entertainment.
“Small war”?!?!?? BRUH , I am Mexican and I wish it was a small war
it is
The horrors of war are ever encompassing and but a taste of it makes one shudder at the horror and scale of it, for it is a terrible beast of unimaginable scale.
MEXICO is in America , north America . USA is the name
@ThelastTiger Mexico is the true America
@ThelastTiger Only americans think that you moron, another proof that your average us citizen thinks they are the center of the world. also bold saying mexico aint special when the US doesnt have any culture to them apart from your personal ethnicity 🤣🤣
Apaches Would raid into Mexico during winter, they would hide in the tops of mountains where there were water and trees game wild plants to eat . Villa hid in those mountain oases when the US Army was burning up down in the desert looking for him .
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The US focuses too much on illegal immigrants, instead of dealing with the genuine threat of large organizations. Stabilizing Mexican should be the focus. I'm not sure how to do that, but its pretty apparent Cartels are a serious problem.
That's it! The cartels are able to take down army helicopters www.businessinsider.com/mexico-catch-cjng-jalisco-cartel-gunmen-who-shot-down-army-helicopter-2018-8?r=US&IR=T . It's not the usual organized crime.
Yes we need a war with Mexico and then there is nothing to talk about after that
Hahaha this video is insane
I came here via your post and I appreciate it
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The only wall we need is made of lead and fire and iron.
why doesnt he talk about how its a war created completely by the us