Putin vindicated: Mexican drug cartel gunmen are now armed with US-manufactured anti-tank missiles sold on the blackmarket out of Ukraine

Editor's note: As was reported months ago, US-manufactured weapons being shipped to the criminals in Kiev by the UK-led commercial war on Russia are being sold on the black market. The circumstances in Ukraine have deteriorated to the point now where it is alleged a Ukrainian soldier shot dead a commanding officer. The soldier refused to allow his men to be "sent into a meat grinder." Another Ukrainian soldier broke down crying over the appalling number of deaths calling the criminals out including Zelensky in Kiev as "f*cking fagots" for profitting off the war. Mexican drug cartel gunmen are armed with fully automatic assault rifles and now anti-tank missiles some manufactured in the US (Javelin anti-tank missiles) and Sweden on the border with Texas. It is only a matter of time before US-manufactured Javelin anti-tank missiles start to be used against US border patrol agents and law enforcement. Imagine a US border patrol vehicle with agents in it getting hit with a Mexican drug cartel-fired Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin Javelin anti-tank missile? Note: The Mexican drug cartel gunman in the image below might be carrying a Swedish-made anti-tank missile.
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Source: azerbaycan24.com

Weapon US gave Ukraine spotted in cartel hands – Mexican media

A member of the Cartel Del Golfo (CDG) in Tamaulipas, Mexico carrying a US-made anti-tank weapon, as shown on Mexican TV channel Milenio, May 30, 2023 © screenshot/Milenio TV

A Gulf Cartel member was filmed with what Milenio TV said was a Javelin anti-tank missile A member of the Cartel Del Golfo (CDG) in Tamaulipas, Mexico carrying a US-made anti-tank weapon, as shown on Mexican TV channel Milenio, May 30, 2023 © screenshot/Milenio TV

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.

#AzucenaALas10 | En #Tamaulipas, un presunto miembro del Cártel del Golfo fue grabado portando una de las armas más exclusivas y poderosas, un "javelín", que ha sido utilizado durante la invasión a Ucrania con un valor de entre 20 mil y 60 mil dólares pic.twitter.com/2BGtJMc2Xl

— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) May 31, 2023

Keen-eyed military experts believe the weapon in the Milenio footage may actually be the AT-4, a Swedish-made disposable anti-tank launcher, which is also in use by the US military and likewise supplied to Ukraine by the thousands.

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.

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This puff piece article from The New York Times at face value is just complete nonsense. Officers in the ranks of the Ukrainian military working with criminal gangs are involved in smuggling out of Ukraine and profitting off black market weapon sales.

Ukrainian Soldiers Risk Their Lives to Keep Weapons From the Black Market

This British source (likely British MI6) is attempting to do a boiler plate response to European countries concerned about weapons being smuggled out of Ukraine as a "Russian tactic to dissuade allies from continued Ukrainian support." The threat is very real proven by weapons smuggled out of Ukraine now showing up through criminal gang rat lines in Europe and Mexico.

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The Russians were the first to raise the concern about US weapons being smuggled out of Ukraine.