Now is the time for meaningful talks. That was the message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Moscow on Saturday, as he called on Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine. Next up, four U.S. Marines died in Norway during a NATO drill. Third, the U.K. says that COVID deaths may have been overcounted. And finally, Elchenko's capture is a milestone in the war. We ll dig into it.
00:05:59.880I wish there were more of a ceasefire talks that were going on.
00:06:03.180But when you hear people in the EU and when you hear people across the United States, these politicians,
00:06:08.900you do not hear many people calling for de-escalation.
00:06:12.880And that's the way you've got to read the news these days.
00:06:15.240Who is calling for escalation and who is calling for de-escalation?
00:06:18.700These are the two camps in which we can put our political leaders and our thought leaders.
00:06:23.080And yet all we hear is more escalation, more weapons, more killing, more shelling.
00:06:28.340That seems to be the only thing that leaders on any of the sides of this are calling for.
00:06:33.840The one person that we've heard calling for de-escalation or any kind of talks are the Turks, right?
00:06:39.140Erdogan, of course, which puts them in a tough position because they are a NATO member.
00:06:42.640And yet they are also very pro-Russia.
00:06:45.000Stick with us, human events, as we continue our daily coverage of the ground updates on the battlefield of Ukraine.
00:06:51.200Last week, a study by the American Psychological Association revealed that over 80% of Americans feel anxious about inflation and the war in Ukraine.
00:08:11.320So, terrible news out of Norway over the weekend and really far north, all the way up inside the actual Arctic Circle itself.
00:08:22.540We got reports that four U.S. Marines were killed during NATO drills in Norway.
00:08:27.620Now, they have been identified, and I'll read their names for you here.
00:08:31.160It's right off the coast of Norway, and it looked like it was a helicopter crash.
00:08:35.620Again, another incident involving the MV-22 Osprey.
00:08:40.100There's been so many incidents involving this thing.
00:08:43.480You know, I remember that when I was serving in Seventh Fleet, they were talking about exporting these to Japan.
00:08:48.300And the Japanese military and even a lot of the Japanese civilian leaders were very concerned about these, their tilt rotor aircraft.
00:08:57.160And we're very concerned of them flying over civilian airspace in Japan because of so many issues that have plagued this platform, the MV-22 Osprey, since its inception a few years ago.
00:09:10.040So, the four Marines who died in this, Corporal Jacob M. Moore of Cattlesburg, Kentucky, Gunnery Sergeant James W. Speedy of Cambridge, Ohio, Captain Matthew Tamekovich of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Captain Ross Reynolds of Leominster, Massachusetts, ages 24, 30, 27, and 27.
00:09:31.280And 30 years old, was the oldest one, Semper Fi to the Marines who lost their lives out there.
00:09:36.380And now understand, the reason that we're seeing this, the reason that we're seeing these operations continuing on in the Arctic Circle, in the far north of Norway, right?
00:09:49.480Norway is the northernmost NATO member.
00:09:52.320I suppose you could say Canada, potentially, but the northernmost native member in terms of Europe.
00:09:57.580And Sweden and Finland, which, of course, are also part of that Scandinavian peninsula that are right next to Norway, are not members of NATO.
00:10:04.560And so, there's been a lot of talk lately about whether or not NATO should be expanded, what should be the limits of NATO expansion, and writ large, what is the purpose of NATO?
00:10:18.700Is NATO truly a defensive alliance, or when you look at the recent history of NATO, if you look at the history of the invasion of Libya, the bombing of Libya, the destruction of that country's government,
00:10:29.200the bombing of Yugoslavia during the 1990s, the attacks in Afghanistan, and the occupation of Afghanistan that continued for 20 years, these were all NATO-led missions.
00:10:41.100And so, the question that a lot of people are saying is, is NATO purely a defensive alliance when it's conducting operations like this around the world?
00:10:49.080Now, possibly, it might be a defensive alliance in terms of Europe, but it also clearly has offensive capabilities around the world,
00:10:56.820and obviously has been focusing on areas like Georgia and Ukraine going all the way back to 2008.
00:11:03.120And NATO membership for Ukraine is, of course, one of the main provocations that's been cited by the Russian side
00:11:09.660as the cause for the recent uptick or the recent restart, you could say, of the Russia-Ukrainian war.
00:11:16.860All the way back in 2014, by the way, NATO played a role as well, and that's why I'm talking about it this way,
00:11:21.600because people need to understand that you can't come into this story.
00:11:25.380You can't come into the story of NATO, of U.S.-Russia relations, of Western Europe and Russia relations,
00:11:31.420as if, you know, history began in 2010 or history began in 2022.
00:21:22.000I found in El Pais, which is the main newspaper of Spain, believe it or not.
00:21:29.300They had an incredible article over the weekend, and I'm going to link to it, and I've got the translation here.
00:21:35.060But this is a fascinating article that's just actually digging through and explaining everything that's going on with this latest update in the war.
00:21:43.640I want to read some of it to you, but understand, so the Zeta cartel, the Los Zetas cartel, was the most powerful and most brutal cartel on the border up until just a couple of years ago
00:21:56.160when the leaders of them were captured or killed in various operations between the United States and Mexico.
00:22:05.580These guys, and I talked about it a little bit last week when we were going into the story, insane levels of brutality.
00:22:13.640Dissolving bodies in acid, beheadings, hangings, carving people up, and then leaving them as messages for others.
00:22:23.320By the way, the Zetas, how did they get started?
00:22:25.740They were part of the Mexican military who trained with U.S. special forces and then broke away and became their own cartel.
00:22:35.640But now there's a new generation of basically after the cell was broken, after the cartel was broken, numerous splinter cells broke off.
00:22:46.740Some of them are trying to reconstitute it, but then other members of them are fighting each other.
00:22:51.600And this guy, El Huevo, was the leader of one of these breakaway cells of that larger Los Zetas cartel.
00:22:58.960And so in this situation, you've got him who's a nephew.
00:23:03.400He's a member of the Trevino family, and the Trevinos were the leaders of the Zetas.
00:23:08.200But there's other people in northern Mexico that don't want the Trevinos to come back.
00:23:14.100They don't believe that he is, you know, the rightful heir.
00:23:16.600So this is a piece from El PaÃs explaining it.
00:23:20.040Despite the fact that there are two powerful organizations that control drug trafficking throughout Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation, the Northeast cartel is the third largest criminal group.
00:23:32.820Their presence in many territories, such as Tamaulipas, Nueva León, Cogila, Tabasco, and Veracruz, has consolidated them more quietly than the big ones as one of the main Mexican drug cartels.
00:23:44.840As explained by security analyst Eduardo Guerrero, those from the Northeast, they managed to accumulate a large part of the cells that broke off from the old Zetas.
00:23:55.820Its character, like that of its founders, is to impose force using terror above any type of negotiation or redline.
00:24:03.160And although, according to the security consultant Lantia, they have suffered persecution from the state government led by Francisco Garcia de Vaca, they remain robust.
00:24:13.660So understand, this is part of them trying to rebuild that empire.
00:24:17.700But the question comes, if they take out El Huevo, do the other cartels then stand to gain by taking over this area?
00:24:27.780Are they working with the other splinter cells of the Zetas?
00:24:31.360Or are you going to see more infighting?
00:24:33.900Keep in mind, this is happening directly to the south of the United States, only feet away, minutes away from the U.S. border, right across in the narco-state anarchy to our very south.
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00:25:02.420Folks, today we talked about the war in Ukraine, Day 26 update.
00:25:05.560We talked about the four U.S. Marines who died tragically in Norway on that MV-22 Osprey during a NATO drill.
00:25:11.560We talked about Twitter censoring the article about U.K. potentially overcounting COVID deaths.
00:25:18.400And we got into this crazy level, El Huevo's capture, the milestone in a cartel war.
00:25:23.860He literally has, this guy, by the way, I didn't mention, a team, his own troop of assassins, Sicarios, that he calls the Troop of Hell.
00:25:31.580You need to read more about El Huevo and the cartel war, and we're going to be talking more about it.