Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Do the Taiwan Ends Justify The Means (OSINT Bonus Roundup #6)" video.

@jakeaurod This is good and creative thinking. “Drone carriers” don’t even need to be fully submersible, and they don’t need to be huge. They can even be broken down into tasks, with one type of UNV for launch and another for recover/retrieval/reprovisioning. Something the size of 4-8 shipping containers strapped together and equipped with a launch catapult could avoid detection by staying low on the surface or submersed at shallow depth. Quadcopter drone carriers could be even smaller, but (afaik) they have reduced range. It’s not that such vessels are impossible to detect visually or difficult to destroy once detected. The idea is to compel the adversary to expend considerable resources sending out patrols to discover these drone “carrier groups” and determine whether they are military assets or containers lost at sea (quite common and somewhat of a shipping hazard.)
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@jballaviator There’s so much money already invested in carriers and they’re still useful for many types of missions. I want to mention the “sunk cost fallacy”, but I’m worried about phrasing. 😂
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@lucashenry6281 Stand off munitions, my friend. Ship to ship and ship to shore communications in a language the PLA and PLAN can understand.
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I don’t think many Mexican-Americans will be asking their Congressperson for military interventions in Mexico. The main reason is that those Mexican-Americans that would be politically involved enough to call their elected officials are more American than Mexican (second, third, and beyond generations. The second reason is “the history is complicated”. If the U.S. unilaterally intervened, it would be seen by the majority of Mexicans (not to mention the Mexican government) as an act of war, no matter how well intentioned. There are two or three things the U.S. can do to kneecap the Mexican cartels. The most obvious seems unrealistic—cut the demand for drugs. The other two are also obvious: stronger enforcement of anti-laundering banking regulations and better control of firearms flowing to Mexico. It will take political will to accomplish these objectives because of the banking lobby and the NRA, but if you cut off the money and the weapons, the law enforcement problem becomes manageable. Speaking of drugs and the military, how about a “don’t ask, and pass the joint” policy? 😂
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