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The People Who Think the US Military Will Meet Their Match in the Cartel Are Sadly Mistaken

February 20, 2025 ,

It's kind of telling that any talk about securing our border means running into trouble with the cartel, which has grown powerful in the absence of a strong oppositional leader who effectively let them run wild in the United States. Donald Trump is having to clean up another mess made by Joe Biden in untangling the U.S. from the hold cartels have on it. 

Unsurprisingly, people on the left whose entire identities revolve around resisting Trump have taken to mocking Trump for thinking he could somehow stop or defeat the cartels. For instance, take Cleavage McCrazyeyes here, who says Trump will FAFO if he tries to mess with the cartels. 


I'm not going to get into how leftists will literally cheer for hyper-violent villains if it means owning the bad orange man. These criminal gangs would kidnap a woman like her in a heartbeat, sell her to the highest bidder, and do unspeakable things to her in between, but I guess they aren't as bad as Trump so... whatever. 

Let's start from the top. 

No, Trump isn't declaring war on the cartels in a traditional sense. He did specify that various cartels are global terrorists, which they are. His aim is definitely to get them kicked out of the United States, but as it stands, there are no plans to gear up the troops and take the war to various parts of Central America. 

As it stands, Trump is utilizing airborne surveillance to monitor drug cartel movements so we can develop better methods of countering them. Most of this is happening at the border, with a few happening over Mexican territory. The idea of the U.S. military going into Mexican territory with boots on the ground, tanks, and air support isn't on the table, yet the language being used by outlets like WIRED spread that idea around: 

Donald Trump’s executive order designating cartels as terrorist organizations could give his administration greater power to impose economic sanctions, restrict travel, and potentially take military action abroad.

Let's be clear, any military action taken abroad would first to have to be agreed upon by countries like Mexico, and would be a joint operation, but the chances of that happening aren't exactly high. At this time, Trump is more worried about ferreting out the cartels within America, and then keeping them out. 

The cartel is attempting to up the ante with U.S. forces on the border, including using kamikaze drones to kill or injure troops, but at this time, there is no plan to invade Mexico using the might of the U.S. military in a straight-up engagement. Could it happen? Anything is possible, but it's also possible that tomorrow you'll wake up on a pile of money. Possible... but highly, highly unlikely. 

U.S. special forces going into Mexico to help the Mexican government in small campaigns or engagements is more likely, but not a large-scale war.

But to answer Cleavage's video directly, let's say that the door opens up, and the military is tasked with fighting the cartel directly. Would the U.S. find its match then? Would Trump actually "find out," as they say? 

It would hardly be a fight. The cartel isn't one massive organization, it's a bunch of decentralized groups. While there are parts of it that are well-outfitted with high-quality military gear and powerful weaponry, it's nothing compared to the technological advancements, tactics, and destructive capability of the U.S. military. Our ability to gather information, disrupt supply lines, target leaders, and put troops where they need to be swiftly far exceeds that of any cartel. 

Let's take the strongest cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, which is powerful enough to be global. It brings in $3 billion in revenue annually from its activities. 

Its total membership isn't fully known, but it's thought to have around 45,000, but not all of these are fighters. In fact, most of them aren't. This cartel also sports heavy weaponry, armored vehicles, and armed drones, as well as surface-to-air missiles. As seen in the Battle of Culiacán, they're capable of swiftly deploying troops and organizing a defense. Their ability to conduct guerilla warfare is pretty solid, and their intelligence networks are extensive, allowing them to keep tabs on activities both at home and abroad. 

Pretty impressive. 

And it doesn't hold a candle to the capabilities and power of the U.S. military, which sports highly trained soldiers, including multiple elite units like the SEALs and Delta Force, that outclass even the most elite combat units of the cartel. The U.S. has superior tactics, better intelligence gathering, better troops, better armor, and better boomsticks. 

To give you an idea of the speed with which the military would defeat the cartel, you can look to a similar militant group, ISIS. Trump tells a story of having a conversation with a general about defeating ISIS. Trump had been told it would take up to two years by others, but upon talking to the general on the ground, he made it clear that he could do the job in a week. Trump gave him the go-ahead, and very soon after, ISIS was pretty much destroyed. 

"We did that in a much shorter period of time than it was supposed to be," Trump said. "It was supposed to take -- I will not tell you what a certain general told me. But I went and met a couple of other generals. And I said how long do you think it could take, general? One week, sir. One week? I heard two years. One week, sir. Let us do it the way that we want to do it. I said: General, do it.' And you saw what happened. We had the whole thing."

The cartel's strength would be in its ability to do as Hamas did in Gaza, which is hide behind or blend into the civilian population. Doubtless, civilians would be doing things to protect the cartels, either through bribes or threats. Ultimately, the combination of the Mexican government and the U.S. military would put too much pressure on various groups. Things would fall apart quickly for the cartels as supplies and territorial holds crumbled. The sheer might of the U.S. military would have them on the back foot constantly. 

While there would definitely be complications that could slow things down, most of these complications would involve civilians... and the American media. 

The cartel's main mode of attack wouldn't be with bullets, it would be utilizing the American anti-Trump corporate media to spread false information about the military's efforts, such as the suffering of Mexican children, to try to make Trump look like he's doing too much damage in this war. The goal would be to utilize the compassion of Americans to turn on Trump, effectively making it more difficult to wage the war. 

That is, if Trump let it drag on that long, which I'm not sure he would. 

Either way, it's no contest. 



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