Ed Calderon
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But what is it going to look like, though, is the question that people are asking.
Speaking to somebody like Gafe down in Mexico, he was a former member of the Special Operations.
And I asked him, like, hey, what is the military going to do if the U.S.
says, like, we're going in without your...
He said, well, if you start fighting the cartels without approval of the Mexican government, you will turn criminal organizations into freedom fighters.
And they're already integrated into the military in certain ways because some of them are working for them and some of them are working for us.
So you will make the whole a cohesive force against you.
Which is an interesting theory, you know, if that happens.
And in Mexico, he has been turned into this very, uh, clear, uh, like enemy, like this is the enemy, you know, uh, specifically by politicians down there.
He's pretty easy to just vilify.
Like it says, well, you know, why is Sinaloa on fire?
Maybe it's because you have a corrupt governor there who was clearly in cartel ties and stuff like that, who's part of your party, but you haven't figured out how to get him out of office.