It’s a clear and present danger to the US.
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is generating bad repercussions for Europe and the outside world, such as an energy crisis, military escalations, and other problematic developments.
To the US, there’s a new, dangerous reality that may be about to bring a whole new level of danger, as the Latin American cartels are sending their operatives to Ukraine to be trained in drone warfare.
These criminals are attending the Kill House Academy, a ‘Top Gun school for the drone-warfare era’, according to the British media, a place that trains some of Kiev regime’s best UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) pilots.
It’s actually easy for a cartel member to blend in with the thousands of new Latin American recruits.
The Telegraph reported:
“Among the more promising recent recruits [at the Kill House Academy] was a pilot with the callsign Aguila 7 (Eagle 7) – a former special forces soldier from Mexico, enlisted with Ukraine’s International Legion. But while he excelled at the course, it seemed he had foes other than Russian soldiers in his sights. Eagle 7 was in fact a foot soldier in Mexico’s feared Los Zetas drug cartel and had been sent there to learn drone skills for use in drug wars back home, according to reports.”
Mexican intelligence officials alerted the Ukrainians in July of the presence of these criminals.
“They warned Kyiv that cartel members were infiltrating Ukraine’s foreign fighter cadres to learn how to fly first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones, which give pilots a bird’s-eye view of the target as they close in with an explosive payload.”
Last week, Sinaloa cartel sicarios were recorded showing a new ‘fiber-optic’ FPV drone.
“’Ukraine has become a platform for the global dissemination of FPV tactics’, a security official in Kyiv told Intelligence Online, a French security website that first broke news of the investigation into Eagle 7. ‘Some come to learn how to kill with a $400 drone, then sell that knowledge to whoever pays the highest price’.”
The Cartels exploit Kiev’s limited vetting of overseas recruits.
“’We’re seeing reports in recent months that both Mexican cartels and Colombian criminal groups are trying to infiltrate the Ukrainian military to learn techniques that they can take back to Latin America’, Alexander Marciniak, a Latin American intelligence analyst for Sibylline, a private intelligence firm, told The Telegraph. ‘The cartels can use drones for all sorts of purposes – attacks and surveillance on each other and on the security forces, and for smuggling contraband’.”
Mexico is experiencing a surge in the use of attack drones, from a few incidents in 2020 ‘up to more than 40 per month by 2023’ – that’s more than one per day.
How long until these capabilities are turned against the US?
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