It Is Looking Like Civil War in Mexico

Today, at The Federalist John Daniel Davidson has an article entitled A Drug Cartel Just Defeated The Mexican Military In Battle. You may have heard about this on the news. In the city of Culiacan, the capitol of Sinaloa Province, the Mexican military and the cartel had a major battle, in which the cartel defeated the military. Now this is in a country where, according to law, nobody is supposed to have guns. There is one gun store in the entire country, located in Mexico City. Civilians can not own a gun which fires any round that has been adopted by a police agency or a military anywhere in the world, which pretty much means they are confined to .22 Long Rifle, and .38 Super Auto. So much for the public safety claims of the gun grabbers.

Armed with military-grade weapons and driving custom-built armored vehicles, cartel henchmen targeted security forces throughout Culiacan, launching more than one dozen separate attacks on Mexican security forces. They captured and held hostage eight soldiers, then kidnapped their families. Amid the fighting, an unknown number of inmates escaped from a nearby prison. At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen were injured.

The eight-hour battle ended when government forces, outgunned and surrounded, without reinforcements or a way to retreat, received an order directly from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to release their prisoner and surrender. Lopez Obrador later defended this decision, insisting that his security strategy is working and saying, “Many people were at risk and it was decided to protect people’s lives. I agreed with that, because we don’t do massacres, that’s over.”

Now, while the Democrats and the squishy Republicans are decrying President Trump's decision to pull out of yet another endless war in Syria, where our national interests are at best fuzzy, here we have a collapsing state right on our Southern border, and if past is prologue, the current civil war in Mexico is likely to spill over and affect Americans.  Ranchers living along the Texas border might need those AR-15s.

I am sure that Trump is not among the gentle readers of this blog, but if I were in his position, I would ask the the Acting SecDef review plans for defending the Southern border and begin implementing movement of supplies and other logistics to the nearest bases along that border, with building up of men (and women, of course) as we can see more clearly the likely outcome.  As for where to obtain the men, why the Middle East looks like a good place.

Meanwhile, for those who are gentle readers, as always, you are your own first responders. Keep your powder dry.