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Toomanyeastereggs 9 hr ago +153

We”d like take this opportunity to again congratulate Drugs for winning The War on Drugs.

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capsfan19 8 hr ago +1

They’re like 120-2 at this point. We’ll all be dead and we’ll still have deers eating fermented apples and sea snails inhaling methane. Changing consciousness is natural and normal.

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npeggsy 8 hr ago +1

And I, for one, welcome our new drug overlords

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bunky_done_gun 9 hr ago +1

So, just another situation of cartel on cartel violence, eh?

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EagleCatchingFish 9 hr ago +1

There are a lot of comments and not much discussion of the article. So here's a summary. **The News:** There was a drug raid by local law enforcement in Chihuahua (read: not federal Mexican law enforcement). Leaving that drug raid, two US embassy personnel died in a car accident. It is reported that they were CIA operatives. President Claudia Sheinbaum said that neither she nor the cabinet were aware of the operation. **Why this Matters:** According to Mexican law, a joint operation with the Americans like this requires approval from the federal government. This means that while the Trump administration is pressuring the Mexican government to do more of these raids, it appears to actually be clandestinely circumventing the Mexican federal government by approaching individual Mexican states directly in violation of Mexican law. The Chihuahua attorney general for his part claims that the American alleged CIA operatives were just "trainers," not actually involved in the execution of the operation. (My speculation: I don't know for sure, but this seems like a fig leaf to try to classify American participation as something more legal that it was in fact.) The fact that they may have been CIA agents suggests that at the very least, the Americans are supplying local law enforcement with intelligence without the federal government knowing. This is also important because American military personnel participating in alleged drug raids in the Caribbean and Ecuador are also described as "trainers" rather than active participants.

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charavaka 8 hr ago +1

Even as trainers, wouldn't they need approval of the federal goverment of Mexico to claim that they were there legally?

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EagleCatchingFish 8 hr ago +1

I can't speak to that, I'm afraid. The article didn't seem to mention it, other than to say the Chihuahua AG's story keeps changing.

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Error_404_403 12 hr ago +11

I think very soon, there will be one cartel less in Mexico.

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Express-Citron-6387 12 hr ago +108

The CIA cartel from the looks of it...

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Error_404_403 12 hr ago -82

The lab of which the CIA agents eliminated...?

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O_PLUTO_O 11 hr ago +74

Well the cia established clandestine labs and cartels in Mexico to begin with so we can call it a draw

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Error_404_403 11 hr ago -106

That's a lie. The fact that CIA used some cartels 50 years back says nothing of sorts.

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fakeprewarbook 10 hr ago +31

will you please catch up

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O_PLUTO_O 11 hr ago +49

Can’t have a forever drug war without drug lords.

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Error_404_403 8 hr ago +1

Oh surely you can.

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RyanIsKickAss 11 hr ago +52

Your username is a good description of your brain

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KingSwank 9 hr ago +1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking_allegations#Mexico

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Error_404_403 8 hr ago +1

I know about those, and I called them out: not 50, but 45 - 50 years ago CIA was using the cartels for drug smuggling into the US, paying Iranian contras with thus obtained money. It is well known. Has very little to do with "establishing" cartels or with today.

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WDWKamala 9 hr ago +1

You think that’s how this works?

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Error_404_403 8 hr ago +1

What works? CIA agents together with local authorities can't eliminate some cartel lab? Surely they can. Of course, the lead-in could have been provided by a competing cartel, but that's a detail.

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WDWKamala 8 hr ago +1

What doesn’t work is eliminating labs. They have another one ready to go. Everything is redundant.

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KingSwank 9 hr ago +1

The cartels produce and smuggle hundreds of thousands of pounds of drugs constantly from many many many many different labs like these, and they also constantly get raided by the military. There’s a reason why the lab is made up of tents in the jungle and not actual buildings, they are meant to be disposable. They expect some losses.

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Error_404_403 8 hr ago +1

And?? So what?

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westsideway 8 hr ago +1

The movie sicario in real life, spooky.

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Sexytime_fordimes 11 hr ago -62

Great job Kash.. head of Cia too drunk to protect lives.

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RoCKSLAM 11 hr ago +57

He's the FBI director not CIA

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Sexytime_fordimes 11 hr ago +75

I'm doubling down on my error.

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NYR_LFC 9 hr ago +6

Are you drunk too?

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Ntroepy 11 hr ago +15

A true MAGA move! Truth be damned! I applaud you dear sir! MAGA forever! Or at least until Trump dies. Step 2 is unclear.

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PapaSchlump 9 hr ago +3

To be fair, the current CIA director used to run as a libertarian conservative, guess becoming head of the premier civilian intelligence government service is just coming full circle these days

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blankvoidoid 11 hr ago +7

Ka$h is head of the FBI, ace. You know, the ones with the sharpies

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InappropriateTA 8 hr ago +1

John Radcliffe is the Director of the CIA, not Kash Patel.

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