Testing a Hexbear-like thread for sharing and commenting on news. Might become a weekly thing if people like it 👀

Rules:

  • Include sources in (at least) every top-level comment
  • No clearly fake stories
  • That’s it for now
  • Xibucks arrive on the third Sunday of every month
  • Chay
    6•11 months ago

    Weapon US gave Ukraine spotted in cartel hands – Mexican media

    A militant wearing the insignia of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) was filmed in the state of Tamaulipas carrying a US-made anti-tank missile launcher. Milenio TV identified the weapon as a Javelin, thousands of which were sent to Ukraine by the Pentagon.

    Footage filmed in Matamoros on Monday and aired on Tuesday evening by the news channel Milenio TV showed a man with CDG patches armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a missile they said was the Raytheon-made FGM-148.

    Over 10,000 Javelins from Pentagon stockpiles have been sent to Ukraine since last February, to the point where the US military has begun to run out of the missiles itself.

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    • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      7•11 months ago

      I won’t be surprised, in a decade or so, to read the news story of a dead journalist who was writing about the shipping routes of US ‘aid’ to Ukraine.