Where's the Zelenskyy for our border war?

Help Ukraine, but not without fighting the far more lethal war on our southern flank.

I support the Ukraine War, but with strings attached and a caveat that we protect America first. I cannot justify the over $20 billion in carte blanche military aid the Biden Administration has gifted to Ukraine while enabling an open southern U.S. border controlled by terroristic drug and smuggling cartels. How many Americans have died in the Ukraine conflict? Few that we know of. How many Americans have died from the cartel war on America? Hundreds of thousands from fentanyl overdoses and civilian assassinations alone, not to mention the hundreds of thousands who’ve perished in drug gang wars on U.S. soil.

There was very little support for stopping the cartel war on America in the recent $1.7 trillion omnibus boondoggle. Those who voted for it should be ashamed. You send our nation’s most sophisticated ground-based and mobile air defense system, the Patriot, to Ukraine, but you can’t properly fund ICE or Border Patrol. The message is clear: you’d rather protect Ukraine than your own country.

Imagine if our derelict U.S. leadership and media focused on the battles for Brownsville and McAllen with the same voyeuristic glee they focus on the battles for Kherson and Bakhmut. Imagine if this Administration cared as much about the daily Mexican sorties originating from Matamoras, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa as they do about the daily Russian attacks originating from the Sea of Azov and Crimea.

If we actually cared about winning the border war, we'd be launching covert drone attacks on the headquarters of the Sinaloan cartel, the dominant player in the North American market. But we are not. Instead, we help Ukraine in its covert attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge, destroying a key Russian supply line, but we don’t touch the Sinaloan command and control operation out of Culiacan, let alone its subsidiary operations navigating freely inside our border in San Diego and San Antonio.

The Biden Administration brags about assassinating ISIS commanders in faraway Syria while helping Zelenskky kill Russian generals on the ground in distant Ukraine. How about taking out next-door Mexican cartel masterminds Gigio and El Mayo? Is there some NAFTA-Esque omerta pledge limiting U.S. punishment to sanctions––which the cartels subsume as a price of doing business––instead of the outright assassination of these terror kingpins? Both ISIS and the Sinaloans fund their evil through the drug trade and justify their barbarity under the banner of religion: the former Muslim, the latter Christian. We are talking about distinctions without difference. They are each at war with America, with law and order, with civilization itself. But we celebrate the destruction of one and enable the growth of the other.

We give arms to Ukraine but don't fight the enemies on our doorstep. Ask yourself why. Ask yourself why the nations most affected by the Russian war on Ukraine––France, Germany, Poland, the Baltic states, and Moldova––are not the chief funders of the counteroffensive as well as its chief combatants.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has done a bang-up job selling his faraway war to a gullible U.S. Congress. But his real audience should be the leaders in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels who are most proximate to the threat. We need a Zelenskyy for our border war with Mexico and Central America to finally wake our leaders up to the omnipresent threat on our doorstep. Who is going to lead that effort?