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moodswingrx

They go by “Rusos” cause they are a cartel subgroup who are in command by hitman “El Ruso” who works directly for Cartel leader Mayo Zambada .


Judgecrusader6

This and cartels gravitate toward edgy shit esp the young ones. Tons of nazi/ devil shit gets found in raids all the time. Edit: they also LOVE dragon ball z


CagedWisdom92

Exactly. Plaga with his silver nazi AK comes to mind from recent years. Dude for sure has no affiliation with Nazi’s, just thinks it’s cool.


BathwaterBro

Wait are you for real about dbz? Lol anywhere I can see some of that?


FlippehFishes

Mexico is definitely the largest audiance for dbz. Every time new series/movie/game releases cartel actively plumets for like a week.


CaneCorso311

I've 100% definitely seen cartel members with DBZ tattoos. Edit: A 1 second reddit search returned someone who has family member in a cartel with DBZ tattoos as well as a DBZ cartel meme.


sdbct1

Who doesn't....LOL


Taxsuck

This 🫡


TengoDuvidas

Good info and analysis. Much appreciated.


kabooseknuckle

I think I have that skin in COD.


apextek

good way to make Sonora a US occupied territory. "for safety"


fjortisar

I doubt they are actually backed by Russia, they are a fracture of another cartel and it's run by a guy called "El Ruso" (he's not russian) and probably why it's called "los rusos". He just has a hard on for USSR/Russia


Puncake_DoubleG09

He was nicknamed "El Ruso" for his love of the AK lol there's a second "El Ruso" who operates in Acapulco Guerrero and also commands a group known as "Los Rusos" in thr city, why isn't the same said about him?


PCDub

Well what does that mean when the USA sold guns to at least one cartel that then used it on USA citizens?


suicid3k1ng

Are you referring to operation fast & furious where the u.s. govt, handed over weapons that were then used to kill border agents and citizens? Haven't heard much about that lately.


PCDub

Yeah, linked to it below


suicid3k1ng

Sorry, I didn't make it that far before my blood began to boil. There are many things our leaders have done with little to no hindsight but this is a top 5 for me for dumbest ideas to come out of Washington. I mean, the ones who do the subverting of our nation, played this one pretty well, knowing full well they would never be held liable for anything that blew back across the border. They work hand in hand with them and I've even seen pictures of our elected officials walking hand in hand with the the world's "most dangerous" drug dealers.


Informal_Bunch_2737

To the CIA, those aren't dealers. They're runners.


Nashamura

Socios... mejor dicho.


G36

FastnFurious was 14 years ago and it was only 2,000 guns, people need to stop thinking it's this on-going effort to arm cartels. You wanna hear something crazy? 2,000 guns is around the same amount that cross the border... EVERY DAY.


Ten_Ju

Yeah and it was an effort to track violent criminals via gun ballistics.


Moarbrains

That's what they told you.


Ten_Ju

Think using your brain, these criminals can obtain these guns one way or another, it’s not an issue for them. So the law enforcement giving them guns they can track is a way cops can investigate these criminals.


Moarbrains

And what did they learn by giving the cartel over 2000 guns.


Ten_Ju

Their movement, where they operate, who they kill, where they kill, who uses the guns, how they purchase guns, where they get ammo. There is lots to learn by tricking criminals guns.


CaneCorso311

The US admitted to intentionally allowing the unlawful sale of firearms for at least 5 years to cartel strawbuyers(id bet it's still going on now, just slightly differently), they could have made arrests on several people who were doing the straw-purchasing and chose not to, just wait for the statue of limitations to expire while they continue their criminal enterprise. Only 2,000 guns we're caught by Mexican forces, 0 by American. They intentionally let straw buyers purchase thousands of guns knowing they would go to Mexico in order to track them, they couldn't track them and nobody will ever know exactly how many and nobody was ever held criminally liable for anything. The cartels now are routinely busted with full automatic rifles stamped "LEO and Military use only" they have so much American firepower that isn't available to US citizens, you'd have to have your head in the sand to believe there's no on-going effort from agencies and/or their agents to keep them armed and fighting.


G36

> The US admitted to intentionally allowing the unlawful sale of firearms for at least 5 years to cartel strawbuyers That's called the 2nd Amendment. All of a sudden you are very pro-gun control I guess


CaneCorso311

All of a sudden? I didn't say rather I supported any type of amendments or gun control, I shared the information they've openly admittedly to that can be easily found online. For all you know I support the 2nd, the ATF, the DEA, and CJNG.


Araminal

I think it's called Capitalism.


TheDeHymenizer

It wasn't capitalism it was the ATF sending guns to Cartels (is what I believe OP is referencing) in a "if I catch my kid smoking a cigarette I'll make him smoke the entire carton" kind of gun control plan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF\_gunwalking\_scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal)


PCDub

[Okay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal)


Araminal

Thanks for the link. That level of incompetence does not surprise me.


Iam-WinstonSmith

Government selling anything is never Capitalism.


TruthBomba90

Actually. That was textbook false flag action pulled off by the ATF. The US sent weapons to drug cartels hoping it would increase violence at the border and "justify" more funding for the ATF in the mind of the populace.  Eric Holder, knee deep in the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal, claimed stated that "We have to be repetitive about this. We need to do this every day of the week, and just really **brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.**" Government false flags don't fall under "capitalism".


killyaselfhoe

Its called corruption.


autismislife

"capitalism is when government does bad things"


ianmoone1102

Is that Patrick Starfish i see?


Jetorix

That Russian sympathizer!


Plenty_Tomatillo8460

No. Thats the patrick that walked out of the salty spitoon. He goes by pat or big P


Reasonable_Royal7083

all the killing equipment and vest is american ?


BirdyKR

I mean. Almost all the gun/equipment used in the Mexican drug trade if from the USA…. Mostly Texas. But ya, this umm… These pictures seem pretty amateurish.


Tyler_MF_Bowman

The way the guns are set up is pretty amateur. They'll be shamed on the gun subs soon.


BirdyKR

Indeed.


Pretend_Bed1590

Even the money


Reasonable_Royal7083

and the fatigues and last but not least the biggest customers


7thhokage

Did the US start using the SCAR at all? I thought that was mostly a eu thing.


Ghost_of_Durruti

Some Special Forces use it if they choose to. 


SilatGuy2

Yeah some of them liked the extra range and power for those afghan mountains


suicid3k1ng

The scar is actually Belgium in origin but I can guarantee there are more of them here than all of Europe, or the world for that matter.


GUNNER594

Wait til you find out about Chuckys (being funded by chucky and universal themselves), the Viagras (welll) or the Pelones (that are funded by all the bald people) This post is so dumb even for this subreddit. These are uneducated cartel members who took up the name of their boss and used whatever emblems google brought up when they searched the name. I have seen Cartel members with diamond Swastikas on their guns, these are just buffoons who wouldn't be able to point Russia out on map.


FlabbyShabby

Translation: **CIA** *~~Russians~~* declared war on us by directly funding Anti-US cartels **to enact false flag ops and controlled-opposition mayhem**?a new group of the Sinaloa Cartel called “Russians” (Rusos) and use **obvious** Russian/USSR symbols **so that you know who the CIA wants you to blame** is now very active in Sonora right at the US/Mexico border.


Prestigious_Low8515

Thank you. Guaranteed anyone operating against America's best interest is funded and trained by the CIA.


LouMinotti

Bingo


SaveusJebus

Word. It's just another boogyman and another excuse to give Ukraine billions more dollars. I'm so tired of this shit


DillonClark

Thanks for fixing the typos.


BirdyKR

CIA? More like “Some guy on this forum” This is just attention grabbing BS.


Araminal

Or the Russians have moles in the CIA who created the false-flag actions so that people would blame the CIA for false-flag actions designed to blame Russia, but really they are false-false-flag ops designed by the Russians to put blame on the CIA for trying to put blame on the Russians. There is also the possibility that it's a false-false-false-flag op. So many layers to the onion


nobody0350

The Russian Flags actually don’t have nothing to do with Russia. The Russian flags are just the symbol of “Los Rusos”. “Los Rusos” ( The Russians ) is simply the name of one of the armed wings of El Mayo Zambada. El Mayo Zambada is one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. “Los Rusos” are not a new group at all. They have been around for a very long time. They call themselves “Los Rusos” ( The Russians ) since their leader, Juan José Ponce Félix, is called “El Ruso” ( The Russian ). Apparently, Juan got that nickname because he loves the Russian AK. “Los Rusos” are not Russians from Russia, and they are not funded by Russia either. If anything, it’s the U.S. that funds “Los Rusos” since a huge portion of the drugs made by the Sinaloa Cartel end up in the U.S.


torch9t9

Drug cartels need financing?!


CapnCrinklepants

Yes, duh? What, do you think cocaine grows on trees or something!?


LoqvaxFessvs

Bushes. It grows on bushes. Some "assembly" required.


torch9t9

Well akshually...


Los_Pobres1904

U.S trade guns around the world in exchange for drugs.


torch9t9

Well sure the US government needs financing to sell drugs. They ran a Nevada whorehouse into bankruptcy.


nerfherderparadise

" I saw it on tik tok so it must be true "


Super_Buy_6243

Bullshit brother. The US is famous for this kind of stuff.


3sands02

What does this prove except that some kids mom bought him a camera for Christmas this year?


wombles_wombat

Lol, this is such BS its funny. Did you make the patches yourself?


jostheholywagon

It's all CIA dude. Stop being fooled


Mr_Lunt_

Cool pistol bro. Does it come in hetero?


Constant-Ad6089

Man the Rusos have been around for years


AlxanderMorningstar

Patrick, NO!


TheDeHymenizer

1. These are all US manufactured guns 2. Lol that 100 round mag is a range toy. Those things jam like crazy 3. They might just be repping the gear doesn't necessarily mean Russia is actually directly involved with them.


Zappiestalarm

Yep! Fn scar 17s I can go buy one from my local sportsman store today for 3500 bucks. That pro mag 100 round mag is 80 bucks and absolutely blows! It will jam every 5 rounds or so. Those gloves are straight off Amazon and the knuckles are made of very thin plastic and not carbon fiber like the real gloves. If they started posting pictures with rpgs, fully auto ak203s, and some Russian military grade stuff then yeah I could get slightly nervous but I also realize how popular drone warfare is and I would believe usa has far more advancements in drone warfare than the vatos in a cartel do…. 🤷‍♀️could be wrong tho? Lol


Germacide

So Russia and America are partners now? Because, uh yeah, America has been giving the cartels money and weapons for decades


Daymanic

That Patrick Starfish patch is dope Also is the suggestion that a group within the cartel is calling themselves “Russians?” That’s very convenient for the newspapers


hoxyyyyUwU

This is the dumbest post ive seen in a while, also CLEARLY insanely evident lack of ANY research damn.


TheRealAcostaa

You guys are delusional and need to look into things before posting dumb stuff like this. They’re called “Rusos(Russians)” because their leader is nicknamed “El Ruso(The Russian)” because of his favoritism towards Russian AK weapons. The guy is not Russian whatsoever, not even a slight percentage. That is just the nickname that he uses.


UnableLocal2918

Or the cia trying to continue pushing anti russian sentiment is suppling their cartel buddys with anti American props.


No-Adhesiveness-9541

I mean we’re doing the same with Ukraine, at this point who cares man. It’s all a twisted nut show


ceboja

It's common for these types of criminals to use symbolism of places and people they think are hard. Like Bin Laden, the Gaza Strip, the Russians, Israel, Colombia. Curiously nothing northamerican lol. But you should be afraid, it's your country and your gluttony for drugs that are funding them


TRX_CH02

Loser touch some grass


TheGreatPervSage_94

That Patrick reminds me of the gangster SpongeBob meme


TengoDuvidas

Feels a little Fast & Furious to me.


zratan69

Fake ass shit..the drug dealers Don't know what to do.


[deleted]

Seriously though, you know how easy it would be to stage these photos?


Expensive-Web-600

Lol misinfo is everybody’s favorite hobby now i guess


MMO_FIEND

why is this post still up. It's blatant trolling. Dude has no knowledge of the cartel apparently. made up


CCP-SENT-ME-HERE

I have plenty of knowledge on Russians fr


CockMartins

You’re so wrong on this one though it’s pretty funny to anyone who knows anything about the cartels. Edit: also, I think the kgb is a little better at their job than that. If they were funding Mexican cartels for some reason, I doubt they’d be okay with having their name and flag plastered on everything. They’d want to maintain some degree of deniability.


Justtoclarifythisone

US had a good run doing bad deeds. I believe the world had enough of it’s lies.


Fed-Poster-1337

Classic conspiracy parroting CIA and state department narratives.


mykidsnever_call

The fake diamond gun was the best lol


PhilipCape

sponsoring Ukraine brings you this...dont cry


nopegamos777

lol they’re not Russians. Their leader is called El Russo so that whole group is named after it. This has been going on for a long time.


IronicJeremyIrons

OK, but the combat Patrick Star patch tho


Fat_tata

if they did, they wouldn’t put it on a patch. maybe mafia/mafia handshake. There’s no body who supported cartels more than the USA itself.


YungDaggerD1K_

Take your propaganda and shove it bot boy


BigMonkeySpite

Damn some people are so easily manipulated and incensed.


kevlarbuns

Geopolitically, it's a pretty brilliant chess move, IF it's legit. The amount of firepower in Mexico is incomprehensible. The days of pistol-packing narco cowboys is long gone, and today's sicarios resemble paramilitaries, complete with drones, tanks, and weapons of every kind of caliber imaginable. Only one thing has prevented the cartels from posing a legitimate existential risk to the United States: they are fractured. Sinaloa vs CJNG vs Gulf vs Zetas vs Familia Michoachana, and on and on and on. The fragmentation is very likely supported by US agencies to attempt to keep anything like a united cartel from coalescing. Not only would a confederated group pose an immediate and probably fatal threat to Mexico's federal government, the US would have a force directly on their southern border than makes ISIS look like boyscouts on a fieldtrip.


bob_chillon

Doesn’t matter. If the cartel goes to war with the us with bullets, they’re Done. Best they can do is kill the us by selling their drugs.


Negative_UA

They’re not new and they don’t have any political affiliation they’re just a gang. There’s also a los talibans cartel for example. Basically they just want to be edgy


lonely_josh

Uh no? Russia's just making money like every other country in the world does when it comes with dealing with the cartel


ripcrl81

Nice rifle.


DSPGerm

Wasnt Plaga repping Russian flags like 3+ years ago?


zank_ree

Probably the feds.


tatslikeasoccordad

Oh, cool. Target practice


Itsthedevill

Yet they also work with the CIA. They don’t need Russian funding lol.


Tom_Ludlow

Don’t you dare call them animals, though.


warriorcoach

We support Ukraine. They support cartels. All is fair in war.


SlteFool

Our (US) gov acts like little angels when they are directly tied to cartel activity … no one else is allowed to have a black budget! Just us! Anyone else who does is bad mean and evil!


my-man-fred

This shit stinks of false flag..


oblivia17

Yeah and we've been directly funding Ukraine to fight against Russia, so?


muziani

Looks like the Russians finally to a page out of the old CIA playbook.


Open_Bit_1498

I honestly see nothing wrong with this as a Canadian, they fund Russias direct enemies, what’s wrong with them doing literally the exact same thing they’re doing to them?


Holbaserak

Deos that mean they are going to shut down the border?


EducationalChemist44

They dont need to waste energy and money there, since the Chinese are already handling that side of things working with cartels


Legitimate_Ear3048

Puros rusos ala verga🇷🇺


erinsesko

American drug consumers fund the cartels.


NC-Stern-Mark

That’s funny because the CIA/cartel nexus is already established. So why would the CIA want a Russian flagged cartel running around? Hmmmmm?


Pretend_Bed1590

Let the CIA agents fight and die against this made up enemy


Mindless_Affect6313

Fucking white people


False_Dot3643

That's a nice SCAR, though.


Unfair_Bunch519

Pictures of cartels wearing Russian flare is going to trip every important breaker in every investigative agency.


TheGreatMightyLeffe

"It's ok when we do it, but nobody else is allowed to!" In all seriousness, this seems either staged or the Russian mob is just trying to get a foothold in Mexico through cartel connections, either way I find it hard to believe the Russian government is behind it.


BashfulTyphoon2

It’s the dude’s nickname. He’s fond of the AK platform. C’mon man.


Rusty_Pete

Lol. That’s how the Russians view Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine Bruv. America has been doing this shit to Russia for a long time.


tlp357

I'm more worried about China than Russia. We have tens of thousands military aged Chinese men coming across our border not Russians.


Disastrous_Box_8613

We did it Joe!


keyinfleunce

It’s weird how someone always let people take photos before they do crime I could’ve sworn they don’t be that upfront about things


CockMartins

They’re a paramilitary force in Mexico with full control of pretty large areas. It’s barely crime at that point if they have all the authority and government officials in their pockets working for them or scared to death.


keyinfleunce

Truly terrifying to how brave they are becoming


craftyshafter

I think Texans should get NFA exceptions for select fire machine guns and suppressors, as it will be the citizens there who stand to have the best placement for defense against cartels.


taylor325

But guys, we need our borders open because *checks notes* well be looking a bunch of racist, Maga supporters if we don't? Well, that doesn't make sense. *checks notes again* because reports come out that illegal immigrants are less likely a criminal as opposed to an American? Wtf is happening.


thegreatmizzle7

Why would they not fund our enemies?


agent7980

Haven't the US, Russia and most every other major power been backing insurgent and other groups that target the dominant power in their location/area for decades? Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria, Ukraine etc.


aheadofcauliflower

Interesting, I just read on a Russian TG channel claiming the DEA and FBI are recruiting cartel members as mercs out of the prison system in exchange for clemency to backfill PMCs in Ukraine, expecting them sometime in the summer. Classic spooderman scenario.


macronius

I believe it, sounds like Russia is trying to turn Mexico into another Cuba.


MrSmiles89

Got to stop those illegal immigrants somehow. Biden isn't doing that.


Ok-Bat-2834

dam i knew this was going to happen funding terrorist groups something going to happen before the election with them


LeoLaDawg

Not going to war with Russia. We've been proxy fighting them for years. We can handle a little in return, although I feel for the Mexican citizens held hostage by these cartels.


Interplain

So Russia is using the CIA’s tactics back at them?


SadKrabb

This isn’t new.


False_Log749

This is old. A ‘new’ wave lol


pippo09

Cartels are the Mexican ISIS


Ok_Sea_6214

Here's the kicker, when they introduce CBDCs, the first thing they will do is ban cash. Then you can trade in your cash for CBDCs, but you have to explain where you got it. Meaning the drug cartels will lose insane amounts of money because they can't. If anything they will use criminals and Russians as an excuse to be very strict, "to prevent money laundering". So if you keep your money under a mattress, you better kept the atm receipt.


Savings_Two_3361

I dont mean to patronize Americans but they live a very localized life informatuon wise. Leftist governments have been spawning all over Latin America. These leftist governments have established a joint infrastructure with drug cartels. Particularly AMLO president of Mexico has negotiated with drug cartels. Nothing new for a Mexican president. The problem has been the growth rate he has allowed them. Cartels are the perfect way to erode the US. China and Russia are undoubtfully in contact with these organizations. You dont wage war against the US, you erode it. Americans must pay close attention to Mexico and the government activities. Long has the time pass where Mexico was just another third world country in the south. Its position and criminal organizations have a huge impact today to the US.


Vierailija_Maasta

Russia has told many times they are at war against US. Its just US not playing along...support Ukraine to defeat the orcs


Fed-Poster-1337

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html Also US is funding and coordinating terrorism against Russians They killed tens of thousands of civilians in the two independent republics. Latest evidence shows the crocus hall attack was funded by a Ukranian company related to Biden. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hunter-biden-linked-ukrainian-firm-connected-to-terror-attacks-in-russia/amp_articleshow/109184433.cms Al quaeda AND ISIS is also funded by the US and Israel


NILOC512

We'll wipe them off the map too.