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Things You Need to Know about Current Global and National Threats to Your Personal Security
UPDATED: Dec 9, 2025
The Cartel-Border Wars
U.S. Domestic Threats
Violent International Gangs - The Cartel-Border Wars - Illegal Immigration
Criminal Networks - Drug and Human Trafficking - Fentanyl Drug Crisis
Foreign & Domestic Terrorists - Foreign Military Saboteurs on U.S. Soil
Think you have built for yourself a nice home, a nice family, a nice life, a nice retirement? Not if they can just come and take it from you. This is a reality check on the nature of serious criminal threats to peace, order, and safety in our communities - and a possible serious direct threat to the safety and security of yourself and your family.
STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES:
THE BORDERS, DRUG CRISIS
GOOD INTRO & OVERVIEW
Why America's Next War is Heading to Mexico
April 26, 2025 | 39 min | RealLifeLore
COLD WAR refers to war between nations through all available means,
other than direct military conflict.
COLD WARS are also known as HYBRID, UNCONVENTIONAL, POLITICAL, and ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, but all generally mean the same or similar thing.
Declared foreign enemies like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea do everything in their power to weaken and destabilize from within the United States and other free nations. International Terrorist and Criminal Groups also use these tactics to varying degrees.
IT STARTS BY DEVELOPING DOMESTIC ALLIES who are ideological, paid, criminal, or compromised recruits at all levels of society to work on their behalf.
CLASSIC 20TH CENTURY COLD WAR TACTICS ON U.S. SOIL
Domestic Agitators and Militants. Foreign Militants on U.S. Soil.
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TACTICS. An enemy's interactions are always serve DUAL PURPOSES, achieving military objections in economics, trade, political, electoral interference, diplomatic, propaganda, criminal, sabotage, fake news, espionage, cyberwarfare, legal warfare, and guerrilla warfare. It can include limited direct shooting warfare, but normally uses proxy wars ('shooting' or 'hot' wars) waged by surrogates, sub-contractors, and allies.
DOMESTIC NETWORKS - CREATING RELATIONSHIPS, ALLIANCES.
During a Cold War era, enemies purposely develop relationships and networks that can later be used for domestic spying, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during a time of war. These networks are used for intelligence gathering, subversive activities, and corruption of leaders and strategic institutions.
DOMESTIC MILITANTS. This is done by starting, partnering with, funding, aiding the growth of, and utilizing Domestic Militant Allies like:
IDEALOGICAL and POLITICAL GROUPS - used to ferment/stir-up domestic unrest and violence;
CRIMINAL GANGS and CARTELS - used at all levels, for sabotage, destroying lives, the subversion, destruction, and corruption of strategic industries, business, and military assets and personnel.
FROM COLD WAR to HOT WAR: GUERILLA WARFARE ON U.S. SOIL.
During a Cold War Era, these militant groups have been, knowingly or unknowingly, equipped and developed for a 'hot' shooting war, where they will be used in Guerrilla Warfare and Sabotage on U.S. Soil. Are all 'groomed' people in domestic militant groups participate? That's an unknown, but what is known: some will.
FOREIGN MILITANTS. This is done through the physical infiltration onto U.S. Soil and integration into U.S. Society of Active and In-Active (sleeper) Spies and Soldiers. They are used for active operations and preparation for guerrilla warfare and sabotage in a hot war.
HISTORY. Cold War Tactics have their roots in the US-Soviet Cold War (1947-91) and in World War 2 (1939-45). In WW2 they were used in enemy occupied lands by the U.S. and Britain (Allies) with domestic 'resistance groups' who fought against NAZI Germany and Fascist Italy (Axis). These tactics expanded greatly in number, types, and use during 1947 to 1991 during the global US-Soviet Cold War.
NEW
- The DONroe Doctrine -
President Trump's Monroe Doctrine in Latin America
Dec 7, 2025 | 5 min | Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson
NEW
- The DONroe Doctrine -
Why Trump is Obsessed with the Western Hemisphere
Nov 30, 2025 | 9 min | TLDR News Global
President Trump's
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
- Nov 2025 - The White House -
What Should the United States Want?
What Are America's Available Means to Get What We Want?
The Strategy
Principles
Priorities
The Regions
Western Hemisphere
Asia
Europe
The Middle East
Africa
NEW - OVERVIEW
Analyst Unpacks What WH's New National Security Strategy Means for China, Europe
Dec 7, 2025 | 10 min | NTD News
- Dr. Keith Naughton, Silent Majority Strategies
NEW - EXCELLENT OVERVIEW
The U.S. Military is Reopening Key Bases in the Caribbean, China in the Americas
Nov 28, 2025 | 19 min | Task & Purpose
SouthCom - Southern Command - Miami, Florida
U.S. Military HQ for Caribbean, Central & South American Operations
🗺️ Manta, Ecuador; Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico; El Salvador, Panama Canal, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba;
ⓘ Manta, Ecuador; Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico; El Salvador; Panama Canal; Columbia; Dominican Republic; Guyana; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba;
ANALYSIS
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine:
America’s Power Play in Latin America
with Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford Maldonado
Nov 6, 2025 | 39 min | America First Policy Institute
At the Southern and Northern U.S. Borders and Inside the United States, International Criminal Gangs (Cartels) are at war with America. U.S.-Mexican Border on Wikipedia
Mexican Drug War (2006 - ) - about - ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking crime syndicates (cartels).
President Trump Executive Order (Jan 20, 2025)
- Designating Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)
Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) - wiki
- THE FULL LIST (State Dept) - CIA World Factbook on FTOs
CNN 2014
U.S. State Department (Feb 20, 2025)
2025 Terrorist Designations of International Cartels
This official designation allows the U.S. Government to confiscate their assets in the United States, to deport those who are members and non-citizens, and to prosecute members and those who aid them.
Cártel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas)
Cárteles Unidos (United Cartels)
aka la Resistencia (the Resistance)
The Most Violent Gang (TDA)
is Spreading Across America
Nov 8, 2024 | 22 min | Task & Purpose
ⓘ Wikipedia Article on the International Venezuelan Gang: Tren de Aragua (TDA)
US-Mexican Border Quickly Becoming a War Zone
Feb 27, 2025 | 16 min | Review of News by Cash Jordan
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A MUST SEE 2023 INTERVIEW
THE REAL BORDER STORY
Foreign Cartel Military Units Operating with Impunity
Inside the United States: Guns, Drugs, Slave Trade
Narco Wars: The Southern Border
Nov 2023 | 1 hour 6 min | IRONCLAD - Change Agents
- Jaeson Jones, retired Captain Texas
Dept Public Safety, 25 Years on the Border
JaesonJones.com | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter/X | Instagram | LinkTree
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FEATURED - A MUST SEE INTERVIEW
Why Trump Must ANNIHILATE
Mexico's Cartels Like ISIS
April 12, 2025 | 1 hr 16 min | Glen Beck
Brandon Darby, co-founder of Breitbart’s Border and Cartel Chronicles
Border and Cartel Chronicles on Breitbart | on Twitter/X
The World's Highest Security Prison
CECOT Prison El Salvador
(the most evil are kept here)
Feb 2025 | 21 min | Ruhi Çenet
ⓘ Wikipedia Articles on: MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
Cartel 'Force' LANDS in Texas… US Navy Wipes ‘Mexican Invaders’ OFF THE MAP
Sept 22, 2025 | 15 min | Cash Jones
America's New War
Sept 5, 2025 | 14 min | Preston Stewart (review of news)
OVERVIEW - ANALYSIS
The Venezuela Crisis Explained
Sept 5, 2025 | 30 min | Preston Stewart
Juan Gonzalez, Georgetown Americans Institute
MEXICO SAYS NO TO U.S. TROOPS
Trump goes after Mexican president:
'She can't even think straight'
May 5, 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
MEXICO SAYS NO TO U.S. TROOPS
Mexico's Rejection of Trump Offer is a 'failure' on their part, Chad Wolf says
May 5, 2025 | 5 min | Fox Business
Update from General Guillot of NORTHCOM and the Unified Command at our Nation’s Borders
April 18, 2025 | 3 min | Jaeson Jones
Article about Trump's Executive Order
Trump's Exec Order on Military & the Border - Jan 20, 2025
Border Czar Tom Homan updates Arizona Legislature on Southern Border
April 8, 2025 | 18 min | LIVE NOW from Fox
Arizona, has the second highest number of border crossings from Mexico into the US, has six ports of entry.
Dr. Phill Interviews Border Czar Tom Homan
on Gangs, Sanctuary Cities & Cartels
March 24, 2025 | 57 min | Dr. Phil Primetime
Kristi Noem, Head of Homeland Security:
The terrorist threat facing the country is 'very real'
March 31, 2025 | 9 min | Fox News
ⓘ Wikipedia Articles on: MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
New FBI Director Kash Patel Gives Update
March 14, 2025 | 9 min | Forbes News
1-on-1 with acting DEA Boss Derek Maltz on Violent Crime in Colorado
March 14, 2025 | 12 min | KMGH Denver Channel 7
ⓘ Wikipedia Articles on: Tren de Aragua (TDA)
China established the Mexican Opioid Drug Industrial Base (factories, training). China supplies in industrial quantities of base chemicals required to make opioids. China's banks funds and launders the cartels money.
- Derek Maltz, Trump's Head of the DEA:
"In regards to the drug crisis, this is historic.
We've never had anything like this in the history of America. It's a mass poisoning.
The Chinese Communist Party are behind it.
Their fingerprints are on it."
The Drug War, China, Fentanyl in America
with Special Agent Derek Maltz,
Trump's newly appointed Head of the DEA
May 2024 | 51 min | IRONCLAD - Borderland with Vincent "Rocco" Vargas
NEW
‘NARCO STATE’: Mexican Senator Warns Cartels have 'Infested' the Nation
Aug 24, 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
How Cartels Work With The Mexican Government
June 2025 | 10 min | Trapp University
Many Wonder if new Female Mexico President-Elect Can Quell Cartel Violence
June 2024 | 3 min | ABC 7 Chicago
Venezuelan ‘Force’ ENTERS Texas…
U.S. Navy Wipes Cartel Base ‘Off The Map’
Aug 24, 2025 | 15 min | Cash Jones
Venezuelan ‘Force’ ENTERS Texas…
U.S. Navy Wipes Cartel Base ‘Off The Map’
Aug 24, 2025 | 15 min | Cash Jones
Trump Sends U.S. Destroyers, Marines to Deploy Off Venezuela Coast to Pressure Maduro, Cartels
Aug 23, 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
NEW
Hegseth Announces 'Operation Southern Spear' to Remove Narco Terrorists
Nov 14, 2025 | 2 min | Washington Examiner
NEW
Inside the Cartels Silent Invasion of Montana
Nov 10, 2025 | 5 min | IRONCLAD NARCOSIS
- Stacy Zinn, former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Montana, led major anti-cartel operations against the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)
WATCH FULL INTERVIEW (1hr)
CARTEL DRONES
Drone Attack hits Baja California Attorney General's Office
Oct 16, 2025 | 3 min | CBS 8 San Diego
CARTEL DRONES 2024
Cartels Flew Drones near the U.S. Border over 60K Times Last Year (2024)
July 25, 2025 | 12 min | NewsNation
CARTEL DRONES 2022
Cartel Drones Crossed into US 10K times Last Year (2022)
Feb 2023 | 3 min | NewsNation
Mexican Cartels Enlist GANGS, Extremists for Bounties on ICE Officials
Oct 15, 2025 | 9 min | Fox News
Sinaloa Cartel Warns They Will Kill Americans In Popular Tourist Locations in Mexico
Oct 9, 2025 | 2 min | Christina Aguayo
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Seattle DEA Breaks Down Major Drug Operation tied to Sinaloa Cartel - David Reames
Aug 2025 | 5 min | Fox 13 Seattle
ⓘ Sinaloa Cartel
Former Cartel Kingpin reveals if Trump's Crackdown on Drug Cartels is Really Working
Sept 5, 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
FT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
Largest Ever 2 Month Coast Guard Drug Confiscation, over 76,000 pounds
Aug 25, 2025 | 2 min | NBC 6 South Florida
FLORIDA
Task Force Uncovers Cartel Plot to Kill 14 Million with Fentanyl
June 24, 2025 | 15 min | WFLA News Channel 8
ⓘ Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Cartel (CJNG)
UTAH
Utah Family Worked with Cartel to Smuggle Millions in Oil
June 28, 2025 | 4 min | NewsMax
COLORADO
Aurora Police Investigating Report of Armed Gang Take Over of Apartment Complex
June 17, 2025 | 3 min | FOX31 Denver
ⓘ Tren de Aragua (TDA)
Attorney General Pam Bondi addresses 'demented' Tren de Aragua attack on NY Copes: 'We Will Get These People"
May 7, 2025 | 10 min | Fox New
ⓘ Tren de Aragua (TDA)
Attorney General Pam Bondi announces Largest Fentanyl Bust in U.S. History
May 6, 2025 | 6 min | LiveNOW from FOX
Cartel Scout Sites Dismantled after US-Mexico Joint Effort
April 26, 2025 | 4 min | NewsNation
COLORADO - CARTELS
Illegals Caught with 180,000 Rounds of Ammunition. Are Cartels Preparing for Attack Inside the U.S.?
April 23, 2023 | 13 min | Mike Glover Show
WYOMING - CARTELS
Illegals Caught with 18,000 Rounds of Ammo.
Why is Utah Selling Ammo to Illegals?
April 24, 2023 | 11 min | Mike Glover Show
UPDATE: Judge let them go. Didn't Show Up for Court Later.
KIDNAPPINGS
Americans Target in Cartel Kidnappings
April 22, 2025 | 3 min | NewsNation
OREGON - CARTELS
Sinaloa Cartel Accused of Flooding Oregon with 1.5M Fentanyl Doses
April 25, 2025 | 4 min | NewsNation
ⓘ Sinaloa Cartel
A 'PRIMARY THREAT' to the U.S.
Trump Team Ramps Up Battle with Criminal Gangs
March 30, 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
ⓘ MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
Top Mexican Gang Leader in U.S. Arrested
March 27, 2025 | 4 min | Fox News
ⓘ MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
CARTELS - NORTHERN BORDER
Mexican Cartel Smugglers at U.S.-Canada Border Advertise to Migrants Online
March 23, 2025 | 13 min | CBS 60 Minutes
TRUMP DEPORTS CARTELS
Trump Administration Deports Hundreds Amid Ongoing Battle Over Immigration
March 16, 2025 | 3 min | ABC News
ⓘ MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
TRUMP DEPORTS CARTELS
Over 250 Gang Members and Criminals Arrive in El Salvador from the US
March 16, 2025 | 6 min | Sky News Australia
ⓘ MS-13, Tren de Aragua (TDA)
MEXICO OKAYS U.S. DRONE FLIGHTS
CIA Begins Targeting Mexican Cartels
March 1, 2025 | 15 min | Task & Purpose
Mexico Extradites 29 Cartel Leaders to US
Feb 2025 | 5 min | Fox News
Drug Cartels have 'stronghold' on Mexico, former ICE agent says
Feb 2025 | 4 min | Fox News
Mexican Drug Cartels Planting Explosives along the Texas Border
Jan 2025 | 7 min | News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio
Trump Closes Southern Border,
Declares War on Drug Cartels and Gangs
Jan 2025 | 5 min | Sky News Australia
Rubio won't rule out Military Force against Mexican Cartels
Jan 2025 | 3 min | PBS NewsHour
- Illegal Immigrant Crisis -
Gang Violence, Murders, 323K Missing Children
Whistleblower reveals dark details of child-trafficking
Nov 2024 | 12 min | Fox News
Officials Doubt Mexican Cartel's Apology for Kidnapping Americans
March 2023 | 4 min | CNN
