With U.S. arms flowing again to Ukraine and the Trump administration pushing for a ceasefire in the war with Russia, former Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor delivered frightening news during an interview with Tucker Carlson for The Tucker Carlson Show.
The drug cartels that control Mexico have U.S-made Javelin anti-tank missiles, presumably purchased on the black market after the United States sent them to Ukraine.
Carlson said much the same thing to NewsNation talker Chris Cuomo. American weapons intended for Ukraine have landed on the black market.
If Javelins are in Mexico, then the cartels have one of the most potent weapons used by American soldiers and Marines.
MacGregor’s Interview
Known among some soldiers as “the best war fighter the Army has got,” West Pointer Macgregor offered Carlson a harrowing evaluation of what goes on in Mexico. For all intents and purposes, the cartels run the country, he said.
Noting that Americans care less about Ukraine than they do about what’s happening at the southwest border, Macgregor said he spent three days there recently, and called Mexico a “cesspool of barbarism, savagery, criminality.”
Mexico, he said, is America’s “existential threat. Not China, not Russia, not Iran, not anywhere.”
President Donald Trump “can manage those things,” but Mexico is an altogether different threat to the United States.
Continued Macgregor:
This thing down on the Mexico border is really at a boiling point. We need to understand that. The cartels run everything. I mean, we hear about this President [Claudia] Sheinbaum and Mexico. Forget it. You know, she controls 40 square kilometers in Mexico City. This whole thing is an organized crime state. Everyone in Mexico knows that if you go to Mexico city … they’ll tell you flat out well, don’t go there and don’t go here and don’t go there. And don’t ride in this cab. And don’t take this automobile. Don’t go to that airport. Everybody knows the truth.
Macgregor noted that crossing into cartel territory can be a fatal mistake for anyone seen as a problem. As well, cartel “families” essentially operate their own states within states, and even provide free healthcare for members.
“You pointed out the weapons going down there are serious,” Macgregor continued:
I was down there, and we talked to several people who were Border Patrolmen, also talked to some Texas Guard people, and they said well you just go a hundred yards on the other side into Mexico and behind the ridgeline over there, you’ll see all the weapons, all the RPGs and Javelin missile systems that have found their way to Mexico.
“Javelin missile systems?” Carlson asked. “From Ukraine?”
“Yeah sure,” Macgregor, noting that the United States sent about 1,000 to Ukraine and that the Russians captured “several hundred.”
“And then I’m sure several hundreds were sold on the black market,” the retired colonel said:
About 50 percent of everything that showed up there ended up somewhere that didn’t belong. It is just one, huge, corrupt industry in Ukraine. And the longer we feed it cash, the worse it will get. So you’ve got to starve it of cash, starve it of ammunition.
American Weapons for Sale
During an interview with Cuomo, Carlson said that Ukraine dictator Volodomyr Zelensky does not have “democratic authority over his country. What he has is a lot of NATO weapons.”
Continued Carlson:
[T]he Ukrainian military has sold those weapons on the black market around the world. They have wound up in the hands of, among others, the Mexican drug cartels, the Taliban, Hamas, Hamas in Gaza.… I know someone who bought some of the weapons.
Cuomo was skeptical, and Carlson said he cannot name the source who told Carlson that he, the source, had purchased the weapons.
“The Ukrainian military has sold huge amounts of American-supplied weapons around the world and that they’re purchasable now by governments and armed and are being purchased,” Carlson said.
More Arms for Ukraine
The news from Carlson and Macgregor surfaced just as President Trump resumed arms shipments to Ukraine. This might mean that even more U.S. weapons wind up in the hands of the Mexican cartels and terrorist organizations.
“U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed [today], officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine,” The Associated Press reported.
“Hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, AP reported. “And if we do, I think that would be 80% of the way to [ending] this horrible bloodbath.”
But with American Javelins south of the border, Americans must worry whether a “bloodbath” will begin here when Trump begins his promised war against the cartels. Border Czar Tom Homan has promised that Trump is “going to wipe you off the face of the earth.” Trump designated the cartels as terrorist organizations on Inauguration Day. The State Department has named the cartels, members of which fired upon Border Patrol agents in January. Two cartel terrorists attacked hikers near the border days after Trump’s executive order.
If Macgregor is right, instead of facing mere small arms fire, border agents, again, might find themselves targeted by the deadly Javelin.
Produced by Lockheed and Raytheon, the Javelin is a fire-and-forget, infrared-homing anti-tank missile that costs upwards of $250,000 each. Soldiers and Marines fire it from the shoulder or mount it on a vehicle.
