Stefano Ritondale is a former Army Armor officer with extensive military intelligence experience. He is also the Chief Intelligence Officer of Artorias, specializing in Cartel violence in Mexico, Latin American affairs, and drug trade/organized crime. You can follow him on X: https://x.com/All_Source_News Artorias: https://www.artorias.com Today's Sponsors: Black Rifle Coffee: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Fabric By Gerber Life: Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their families. Apply today in just minutes at https://meetfabric.com/CLEAREDHOT
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I hope you're ready for a deep dive this Monday morning. We're going to talk about the cartels, which if you paid any attention to the 2024 election, it was a part of the discussion for sure. And for a couple of years, people have asked the question, what happens if we designate the cartels as an FTO or foreign terrorist organization?
Well, that recently happened under President Trump. But what does that actually mean? Most of the conversations are around kinetic options. Are we going to send drones and Reapers and Preds to Mexican airspace? Are we going to drop bombs on people? Are we going to send our JSOC forces over there? It's a largely kinetic conversation.
Well, my guest today is Stefano Ritondale, and he specializes in cartels. He is the chief intelligence officer for a civilian company called Artorias. He does a good job of describing what they do, but imagine this.
Imagine an OSINT or open source intelligence platform that gathers information from left, right, brings in bias and declares bias, but allows an individual through an app to actually look at every piece of OSINT information available. and make their own decisions from there. That's what Artorias is working on from a commercial perspective that an app that can be released.
And again, Stefano does a really good job of describing that. But he specifically, he's got a Twitter account that focuses on the cartels. He's a former army armor officer with extensive military intelligence experience that has lateraled that in discussing, studying, observing the cartels.
It's a fascinating conversation because even myself, I focused very deeply on the kinetic options that I thought it might put to the table. There is so much more. And a lot of this has to do with things that we can do to clean up our own house north of the Mexican border with the United States due to the authorities and things that will change due to these organizations being declared as an FTO.
And it's more than just the cartels. It's Tren de Aragua, which we have 16 states in the United States to include Montana, the home state that I'm at right now. Fascinating conversation. He does a way better job. He actually specializes in this. So I'm going to shut up and let him talk. Episode 373 with Stefano Rittendale. But before we get into that, give me 90 seconds. Let me pay the bills.
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