"Dear Mexico, we will respect your sovereignty on the condition that we will not respect your sovereignty if we don’t feel like it. Love and kisses, America"
Didn't the Germans try this with Belgium in 1914? That worked well, didn't it?
The scary drug de jour being Fentanyl, the opium poppy prices have plummeted for Mexican growers. Sure, the US could somehow seize all the production facilities in Mexico (although they mostly just package the stuff, and transship it to the willing US market, but that would just mean Fentanyl production would move elsewhere... Wyoming? Caymans? A winebego outside Albuqueque?
Considering Mexico is the US's #1 trading partner, one can only guess what the results of any agression towards the country would have. Not to mention what would happen to US soldiers (and the million or so US citizens living here) were the US to intervene militarily. HELL, considering how badly the world reacted to just a Ecuadorian SWAT team entering the Mexican Embassy, and you can imagine the reaction around the planet if the US were to try anything ... uh... energetic in the way of some armed incursion.
The US invaded Afghanistan, the place where they grow all that opium. So, the problem with heroin was over, right? Nope - in those 20 years, and under the noses of the biggest US military operation in history - the production of opium skyrocketed.
Yeah Reagan had a War on Drugs, too, funneling crack and guns into Inner-City LA and providing weapons to guerrilla warfare groups destabilizing Central and South American governments.
The only reason for PAB to have a War on Drugs is that it’ll be cheaper if he and Jr get their drugs straight from the source.
"President Trump will take down the drug cartels just as he took down ISIS."
Well - I think _that_ is, at least, an absolutely true statement. Let's just see what the DNI says about ISIS today:
"ISIS remains capable of conducting insurgent operations in Iraq and Syria while overseeing at least 19 branches and networks in Africa, Asia, and Europe. "
Oh... Yeah - so I guess we can expect the cartels to be similarly curtailed (apologies for that, I could not resist).
Aren't cartels something like a hybrid of a corporation and a terrorist organization?
They are organized in "branch offices", and no one wears a uniform or even carries an ID. There really isn't a single person at the top - you can take out the CEO, but there's still the Chairman of the Board to deal with. Sure, that "regional manager" is definitely a cartel "member", but just how responsible is the person in the local office who processes payroll? Or the people in the mailroom?
How do you truly wipe out a cartel without attacking innocents?
This just in: Prohibiting drugs that are easy to make or grow will create a huge potential for profit which will be fulfilled by unsavory characters. It never ends well.
"Dear Mexico, we will respect your sovereignty on the condition that we will not respect your sovereignty if we don’t feel like it. Love and kisses, America"
Didn't the Germans try this with Belgium in 1914? That worked well, didn't it?
The scary drug de jour being Fentanyl, the opium poppy prices have plummeted for Mexican growers. Sure, the US could somehow seize all the production facilities in Mexico (although they mostly just package the stuff, and transship it to the willing US market, but that would just mean Fentanyl production would move elsewhere... Wyoming? Caymans? A winebego outside Albuqueque?
Considering Mexico is the US's #1 trading partner, one can only guess what the results of any agression towards the country would have. Not to mention what would happen to US soldiers (and the million or so US citizens living here) were the US to intervene militarily. HELL, considering how badly the world reacted to just a Ecuadorian SWAT team entering the Mexican Embassy, and you can imagine the reaction around the planet if the US were to try anything ... uh... energetic in the way of some armed incursion.
On behalf of Canadians: Hey what about us?
Instead of 101st can we invade with the 1st Armored Div. Fort Bliss is only 5 miles from Juarez. They can be back in time for lunch.
Elimination the cartels in Mexico will end up just like Israel's effort to elimination Hamas - Badly, very badly.
Ta, Gary. WTF did Mexico ever do to TFG?
The US invaded Afghanistan, the place where they grow all that opium. So, the problem with heroin was over, right? Nope - in those 20 years, and under the noses of the biggest US military operation in history - the production of opium skyrocketed.
Yeah Reagan had a War on Drugs, too, funneling crack and guns into Inner-City LA and providing weapons to guerrilla warfare groups destabilizing Central and South American governments.
The only reason for PAB to have a War on Drugs is that it’ll be cheaper if he and Jr get their drugs straight from the source.
"President Trump will take down the drug cartels just as he took down ISIS."
Well - I think _that_ is, at least, an absolutely true statement. Let's just see what the DNI says about ISIS today:
"ISIS remains capable of conducting insurgent operations in Iraq and Syria while overseeing at least 19 branches and networks in Africa, Asia, and Europe. "
Oh... Yeah - so I guess we can expect the cartels to be similarly curtailed (apologies for that, I could not resist).
This is why John Bolton isn’t voting for Trump. He wants to invade Iran, not Mexico.
A war with Mexico? Isn't he worried about unintended consequences? After all, that's how we got California in the first place.
Aren't cartels something like a hybrid of a corporation and a terrorist organization?
They are organized in "branch offices", and no one wears a uniform or even carries an ID. There really isn't a single person at the top - you can take out the CEO, but there's still the Chairman of the Board to deal with. Sure, that "regional manager" is definitely a cartel "member", but just how responsible is the person in the local office who processes payroll? Or the people in the mailroom?
How do you truly wipe out a cartel without attacking innocents?
This just in: Prohibiting drugs that are easy to make or grow will create a huge potential for profit which will be fulfilled by unsavory characters. It never ends well.
"President Trump will take down the drug cartels just as he took down ISIS."
so, not at all? got it.
PAB took down ISIS?! 👀 I thought that was George Santos!