u/border_dad
· 5h
CJNG. Carteles Unidos. Colombian mercenaries. Keep those three stamps.
Mexican Cartel Drones Advancing at Alarming Speed
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Ukraine tactics on a Mexican drone. Colombian mercenaries teaching CJNG how to beat the jammer.
Summary
- Breitbart, citing a Washington Post account of a U.S. government report, says Mexican cartels are importing drone tactics from the Russia-Ukraine war, including ways to defeat anti-drone gear and drop IEDs.
- The report points to Cartel Jalisco New Generation and Carteles Unidos recruiting Colombian mercenaries who fought in Ukraine and then teaching those methods in Mexico and Colombia.
- Breitbart Texas first flagged Colombian mercenaries in a 2017 Mexican military intelligence report and said cartels use drones to watch law enforcement on the border and to bomb rivals in Michoacan and Guerrero.
- In 2025, Mexican authorities arrested a group of Colombian mercenaries working for CJNG, a reminder the pipeline is already on a booking sheet, not a think-tank slide.
Commentary
A ranch dad still walks a border fence after a diesel shift and knows a drone overhead is supposed to mean a sheriff, not a Ukraine-trained drop on a patrol truck. He did not pay the levy so a jammer could lose to a mercenary syllabus.
CJNG. Carteles Unidos. Colombian fighters off a European front. The vinyl seat in that border truck still holds the honest household that already bought the overtime.
Look every working father who still locks a Texas porch after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if CJNG already hired the Ukraine syllabus, who still owns the next IED a county jammer fails to stop?
Comments
If CJNG already hired the Ukraine syllabus, who still owns the next IED over a county road?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a drone still meant our recon. A cartel IED drop is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
2017 intel. 2025 arrests. WaPo catch-up. Print both.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied borders still treat a mercenary syllabus as a breach, not a gadget story.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Michoacan, Guerrero, anti-drone defeat. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next cartel airframe empty of a load.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A Ukraine tactic on a Mexican drone is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A jammer-beating syllabus next to a border fence is a second border around every honest ranch.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed CJNG, Colombian fighters, and IED drops. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the 2025 arrests. Keep the jammer funded. A cartel drone is not a souvenir.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
