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What if it all changes?

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1620&context=monographs

This is basically a 52 page book about the Zetas. a group of criminals that are so slick they hide in plain site while taking over a village,city state or country like in Mexico. Here's just a small part of what is in here,its pretty heavy reading:

From the link:

Who are the zetas?

A “NEW” DYNAMIC IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT: THE MEXICAN ZETAS AND OTHER PRIVATE ARMIES

HEMISPHERE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT:

THE MEXICAN ZETAS AND OTHER PRIVATE ARMIES

Leftist insurgent groups such as Comandante Zero's Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) are not the only nonstate political actors in Mexico or the Western Hemisphere that exercise violence to advertise their cause, radicalize the population, and move slowly but surely toward the achievement of their ideological and self-enrichment dreams.

But a new and dangerous dynamic has been introduced into the Mexican internal and the Western Hemisphere security environments.

In Mexico, that new dynamic involves the migration of traditional hard-power national security and sovereignty threats from traditional state and nonstate adversaries to hard- and soft-power threats from small, nontraditional, private nonstate military organizations.

This “privatized violence” tends to include a complex and enigmatic mix of Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) (cartels and mafia); small private military organizations such as the Zeta enforcer gangs (the Aztecas, Negros, and Polones); mercenary groups (the Central American Maras, Guatemalan Kaibiles, and paramilitary triggermen [gatilleros]); and other small paramilitary or vigilante organizations (hereafter cited as the gangs.

The Anocratic Democracy.

The policy-oriented definition of democracy that has been generally accepted and used in U.S. foreign policy over the past several years is best described as“procedural democracy.” This definition tends to focus on the election of civilian political leadership and, perhaps, on a relatively high level of participation on the part of the electorate.

Thus, as long as a country is able to hold elections, it is considered a democracy—regardless of the level of accountability, transparency, resistance to corruption, and ability to extract and distribute resources for national development and the protection of human rights, liberties, and security.

16 In contemporary Mexico, we observe important paradoxes in this concept of democracy. Elections are held on a regular basis, but leaders, candidates, and elected politicians are regularly assassinated; hundreds of government officials considered unacceptable to the armed nonstate actors have been assassinated following their elections.

Additionally, intimidation, direct threats, kidnapping, and the use of relatively minor violence on a person and/or his family play an important role prior to elections. As a corollary, although the media institutions are free from state censorship, journalists, academicians, and folk musicians who make their anti-narco-gang opinion known too publicly are systematically assassinated.17

Consequently, it is hard to credit most Mexican elections as genuinely “democratic” or “free.” Neither political party competition nor public participation in elections can be complete in an environment where violent and unscrupulous nonstate actors compete with legitimate political entities to control the government both before and after elections. Moreover, crediting Mexico as a democratic state is difficult as long as elected leaders are subject to corrupting control and intimidation or to informal vetoes imposed by criminal nonstate actors. Regardless of definitions, however, the persuasive and intimidating actions of the gang-TCO phenomenon in the Mexican electoral processes have pernicious effects on democracy and tend to erode the will and ability of the state to carry out its legitimizing functions.

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So the question is did enough Zetas come across the open border, under Obiden, to lie in wait for their turn to slowly but surely take over a once great nation?