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Guest Bio: Katarina Szulc is a Canadian investigative journalist whose reporting focuses heavily on organized crime, drug cartels, corruption, and transnational security issues. She is the host of the IRONCLAD Original podcast Borderland: Dispatches, where she has covered subjects ranging from Mexico’s cartel wars to foreign fighters in Ukraine and the growing use of FPV drone warfare by criminal organizations. Her reporting has taken her into high-risk environments across Mexico, Colombia, and Ukraine, giving her a firsthand perspective on how organized crime, geopolitics, and modern warfare increasingly intersect.

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Rick Murray

You've reported on cartel violence in Mexico, conflict in Colombia, and now foreign fighters and drone warfare in Ukraine — what's the throughline you see connecting organized crime and modern warfare? Are cartels adopting battlefield tactics from Ukraine, or is it happening the other way around?"

Ty

From everything you’ve witnessed firsthand, what is the biggest change happening in organized crime right now that governments and the general public are not paying enough attention to—and what happens if we continue to ignore it

Michelle Hillman

What is the influence behind your brave reporting? You are a force at such a young age and an amazing role model for other young women 💜 God bless you and keep you safe.

Charlie

Could and should the US carry out kill or capture raids against child sex trafficking operators in Mexico?

Joe Vongsayarath

How much of the US government is involved with working with the cartel/ drug trade?

Tony

To Joe's question, when considering how our own clandestine operations get funded and knowing about things from our past like the operation Oliver North ran, for example. To what extent can we actually expect the US to genuinely remove these organized crime elements as opposed to just manage and control them overall?

Eric Alger

From what you have seen firsthand in Mexico and Colombia, when does corruption stop being a cartel bribing individual officials and become something closer to a shadow government, where organized crime effectively governs through the police, courts, politicians, and local economy? What warning signs tell you that line has been crossed, and which, if any, should Americans be watching for here?

Thomas Curry

How active should Christians be in standing up for Christian’s values and rights ; would you be specific in what behaviors we should be living and actively proclaiming?

Kelley Sealy White

From your experiences, how involved is our government and higher ups with the cartels that we aren't aware of?

Logan

How much impact has drone warfare training from the Ukraine & Russian war, affected the cartels tactics with bringing drugs, money, weapons and other elicit items, such as organs over the boarder?

Edward Hodapp

Will this be made public on YouTube? I want to share it with folks. I think this is very important information for most Americans to hear. We have a war right on our doorstep.

Suzanne H

What are you excited about?