A militant wearing the insignia of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) was filmed in the state of Tamaulipas carrying a US-made anti-tank missile launcher. Milenio TV identified the weapon as a Javelin, thousands of which were sent to Ukraine by the Pentagon.
Footage filmed in Matamoros on Monday and aired on Tuesday evening by the news channel Milenio TV showed a man with CDG patches armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a missile they said was the Raytheon-made FGM-148.
Over 10,000 Javelins from Pentagon stockpiles have been sent to Ukraine since last February, to the point where the US military has begun to run out of the missiles itself.
Milenio presenter Azucena Uresti noted on Twitter that the estimated value of a Javelin launcher on the black market was anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000, while the average cost of a missile was about $30,000.
Russia has repeatedly warned the US and its allies not to “stuff” Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, both because this risked a direct confrontation and since nonexistent controls would result in the weapons ending up in the criminal underworld.
A RT investigation in July 2022 found a variety of Western-supplied weapons, including anti-tank rockets, for sale on the “dark web.” Several months later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that $1 billion a month worth of Western weapons was ending up in the hands of “terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.”
Kiev has denounced this as “propaganda” and insisted all were accounted for.
Sure, I totally believe that outright bald faced lie from some Ukrainian media flunky.
Let us not forget that Biden left $85 BILLON dollars worth of American military equipment in Afghanistan for the Taliban to sell off or use as they saw fit also.
I would venture to guess that there is Black Market U.S. Military war fighting equipment all over the entire globe at this point.
The immediate implications of the Mexican drug cartels having a bunch of it ought to cause some ass puckering by the local police and border patrol agents along the wide open Southern border of this country.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see some of this stuff turn up further inland either.
The Cartels have running operations from Mexico to Canada already as it is, you just don’t hear about them from the MSM