Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I hope you're ready for a deep dive this Monday morning.

We're going to talk about the cartels, which if you paid any attention to the 2024 election,

it was a part of the discussion for sure. And for a couple of years, people have asked the question,

what happens if we designate the cartels as an FTO or foreign terrorist organization?

Well, that recently happened under President Trump.

But what does that actually mean?

Most of the conversations are around kinetic options.

Are we going to send drones and reapers and preads to Mexican airspace?

Are we going to drop bombs on people?

Are we going to send our J-Soc forces over there?

It's a largely kinetic conversation. Well, my guest today is Stefano Rittendale, and he specializes in cartels.

He is the chief intelligence officer for a civilian company called Artorius. He does a good job of

describing what they do, but imagine this. Imagine an OSENT or open source

intelligence platform that gathers information from left, right, brings in bias and declares bias,

but allows an individual through an app to actually look at every piece of OSINT information available

and make their own decisions from there.

That's what Artorius is working on from a commercial perspective that an app that can be

released.

And again, Stefano does a really good job of describing that.

But he specifically, he's got a Twitter account that focuses on the cartels.

He's a former Army armor officer with extensive military intelligence experience that

has lateraled that in discussing, studying, observing the cartels. It's a fascinating conversation

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