Katarina Szulc

The U.S.

does train Mexican military, and then they kind of form their own.

And directly training cartels.

Yes.

Yes.

If you go to Tamaulipas right now, it borders Texas and Mexico.

There are cartel operatives who can expertly show you how to arm, you know, put together, arm and put a minigun on top of a vehicle and use it like an expert.

And that isn't common knowledge.

And that isn't something that, you know, like guerrilla warfare teaches you.

These people are directly being taught by USX military.

I've heard, and we were talking about this on the way here, Israelis, people who know how to use high-level arms and know a fair bit about high-level warfare tactics.

If the cartels weren't trained by these very people,

they would not be able to function at the level that they are.

Yeah, particularly in Mexican states that border Texas.

There are cartel operatives in Tamaulipas who will blatantly say, the gringo taught us this, or do it the way the gringos do it.

And that has to do not only with the miniguns, but the IEDs that they have.

Their IEDs now are just next level.

Drone operations.

They're using drones that now, initially, they were attaching bombs, IEDs, to the drones, flying them in, and then the whole contraption would blow up.

Now they're doing it in a way where the drone goes in, it drops the IED, and then the drone goes back out.