Katarina Szulc

And those videos now, like when ISIS and the Taliban was doing it, it was on social media, whatever, but it was mainly being sent to news outlets or, you know, they were posting it on their page.

It was more confined, whereas now it's just you put it out there and it spreads like a virus.

And so a lot of their techniques, which is why it's interesting that it took so long to declare Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, because a lot of their techniques, whether it comes to gathering intelligence or infiltrating the US or Canada, and the way they are able to manage public perception of themselves, it completely matches that of traditional terrorist groups.

Wow.

The only difference, I would say, is the way a lot of these traditional terrorist groups would directly go and attack Americans, right?

Like, there was a bomb, there was a shooting, someone drove through a crowd.

For Mexican drug cartels, it's chemical warfare.

It's drugs.

They don't need to go and plant a bomb in the name of drug cartels.

If American boots hit Mexican soil.

I've been saying this, and I really do believe that if American, especially tier one operators, get into Mexico, we're going to see that traditional terrorism style escalate.

happen in the U.S., particularly along the border region.

Because at that point, it's like what we said, they have nothing to lose and they will go down with a fight.

And if they're already working with traditional terrorist groups, they know what the playbook says.

I think there needs to be

You know, it's gotten better, especially at the southern border.

I really believe so.

And I've been covering that region since for a while now.

So you can kind of compare the differences.

But what needs to be done is to tackle the root of the problem, the indoctrination and the financial pipelines.