"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

~ FDR

It should not be forgotten that the entire drug cartel problem is wholly a creation of State drug prohibition.

The War on Drugs™ was, up until Bush II's War on Terra™ and then The Pandemic™, the greatest source of State depredations and consequent threat to our liberties.

The Feds created vast bureaucracies like the DEA filled with little totalitarian Napoleons infesting the entire country, armed podunk police forces with surplus military hardware and armoured vehicles, and, of course, created an enormous prison complex to cage vast numbers of people for possessing the wrong sort of plant or powder.

And, naturally, after over five decades of "fighting" this "war", one can find whatever illegal substance one might want on a nearby street corner.

It should be obvious to any sentient being at this point that none of these "wars", including those of the military variety, are actually meant to be won, but rather "fought" indefinitely, thus continuously enriching and empowering the State at the expense of the rest of our treasure and liberties, whilst providing endless propaganda opportunities to bamboozle Boobus Americanus into cheering for his own impoverishment and enslavement.

Everything that is happening now is following the same playbook.

Everything.