Evil State Actors Are Hiring Street Gangs To Do Their Dirty Work

My radar is always on a 360-degree sweep. I want to catch stories that major media outlets miss or pay scant attention to. I have been studying a trend for several weeks. I have put together some pieces of a puzzle with troubling results. I first was alerted when a plot to assassinate former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton by the Iranian government. The FBI broke up this plot. Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials were so amateurish that they advertised openly on the web for hit men. As this story broke, it came out that several Iranians opposed to the regime had been kidnapped or subject to assassination plots here in the U.S. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard had hired local criminal gangs to carry out their dirty work. Next came a report from a Swedish intelligence agency that I have very high regard for. They reported that Russian GRU operatives were hiring street gangs in Sweden to assassinate and harass anti-Putin dissidents in that country. What followed was a report from law enforcement agencies in the European Union. Sabotage incidents are taking place all over Europe. At first, they were unexplained. There seemed to be no pattern to them. Savvy law enforcement people connected the dots and found a pattern among incidents in several different countries. Further investigation revealed that local street gangs in these countries carried out the sabotage. When perpetrators were apprehended, some confessed that they had been paid by the Russian GRU. The motive was revenge for the support that these countries were supplying to Ukraine. Yesterday I got another shocking report from Chile. This country is normally peaceful, law-abiding, and with a very low crime rate. Then the Tren de Aragua street gang arrived in Chile from Venezuela. The crime rate has shot up. Some assassinations have taken place. One could infer that some state actors hired them to deal with people objectionable to them. Countries like the U.S. and Brasil are riddled with street gangs. These gangs are heavily armed and quite experienced at carrying out assassinations. State actors bent on doing evil would find many capable operatives in the ranks of these street gangs. Law enforcement agencies are going to have to adapt to these new realities. There needs to be close coordination with intelligence agencies that deal with rogue state actors in countries like Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.