From the time President Barack Obama tried to make the case to the American people that the guns in the hands of the cartels came from American gun stores, there’s been a push to enact federal gun control so we can help curb Mexico’s cartel problem. Never mind that much of that stems from a level of corruption that’s been well documented for decades before the cartels came into the country. No, that doesn’t matter. The issue is America and our respect for freedom.
The argument today is much like it was then. If we enact all these controls, all of which would supposedly cut off the supply of guns to the cartels, then Mexico would be peaceful.
However, an arrest in Europe was one of those things that kind of shows just how much of a lie that really is.
Ukraine claimed to have busted an arms smuggling network used by a Donbas warlord to procure “award” weapons for high-profile individuals, including DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, actor Steven Seagal and Russian officials.
Ukraine’s National Police said Tuesday that Kyiv disrupted a smuggling route controlled by Donbas warlord Denis Pushilin, who has served as the de facto head of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic since 2018, in a raid dubbed Operation Black Shell.
Police alleged that Pushilin procured the weapons for a number of dignitaries, including Kim, former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, and a host of senior Russian officials, such as former president Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chechnya’s strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.
Investigators did not specify what type of weapons Pushilin allegedly arranged for Kim and did not respond to NK News’ request for comment.
According to the police readout, the smuggling network has been sourcing weapons from “temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine” and a European country since January.
Now, I get this warlord has backing from the Russians, which is part of where he’s getting his funding, but the point here isn’t where he got the money; it’s who was willing to sell guns to him because of that money.
North Korea isn’t exactly a wealthy nation. They have a robust military, at least with regard to numbers, and they produce weapons aplenty. Selling guns to people who are either their allies or enemies of their enemies doesn’t just benefit them politically, but also financially.
Do you really think North Korea would blink at selling weapons to the cartels?
That’s assuming, of course, that they already haven’t. We know the cartels broke out the RPGs and belt-fed weapons during the recent unpleasantness down south. You can’t get those at your garden-variety gun store along the border, either. They got them from somewhere, and that might have been North Korea or another country that simply doesn’t like the United States and wants us to be as uncomfortable as possible.
What we have to understand is that while it’s easy to see things as black and white when it comes to drug cartels, there’s probably no country on the planet that wouldn’t leverage a criminal organization like that in order to make things tricky for an adversary.
International arms dealers make great villains in spy movies, but unlike your typical full-time professional assassin in film, these guys actually exist.
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