Trump has reportedly been gathering “battle plans” to attack drug cartels in Mexico since early 2023, with or without Mexico’s permission.
One source close to Trump told Rolling Stone about a plan for a “soft” invasion of the country, in which U.S. special forces would assassinate cartel leaders covertly
These actions vary in their level of force, including drone strikes and airstrikes against cartel targets such as drug labs, sending military advisers and trainers to Mexico, sending “kill teams” to the country, using cyberwarfare against drug lords and their organizations, and the assassination plan.
Sounds accurate. He thinks things work like 80s action movies. He probably literally got mad when they told him Rambo was a fictional character, so they had to force some guy to legally change his name to Rambo so Trump would be happy.
The idea that you can just “send” “special forces” “assassins” to kill cartel leaders in a foreign country is fairly challenging just as an accomplishsble mission, let alone factoring in the potential and very serious blowback from the cartels AND the Mexican government.
$20 says he recently watched Sicario or something.
80s action movies.
Lol that’s incredible. Never seen it before, thanks.
I also appreciate this contribution to the conversation. Thank you.
I can’t make it a fucking day without making a sardonic, cynical joke based on old sci-fi nerd shit till BAM yeah, getting degrees in poli sci and econ were a waste of time, my nerd sense as a child ( + the ability to discern fantastical elements from plausible elements of a story) was all that was actually needed to learn about the future.
So anyway, Ghost in the Shell timeline it is then.
Obviously minus the impossible robotic/cybernetic tech.
Season 2, Episode 14 of Stand Alone Complex.
Most of the episode is a flashback to the 2020’s, where its established that America invades Mexico with the goal of stopping the cartels, and both sides are using PMCs/Mercenaries.
(Blackwater never went away, they just changed names a bunch of times, now they’ve merged/consolidated with a bunch of other similar PMCs into Constellis… Trump pardoned 4 of the Blackwater guys in the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq at the end of his last term, so they’re obviously in his rolodex)
This way they can deport all the Mexicans and still use them as cheap labour
And Americans were dumb enough to think this asshole was the anti-war candidate
It’s not a war, it’s a special military operation.
No, I’m pretty sure this is what they wanted.
It’s not “war” to them. I struggle to find a MAGA way to spin it, but it will be spun as something patriotic.
Look at how the Russian invasion of Ukraine was sold to Russians. That’s how it will be sold to us. Those cartels are some scary motherfuckers. Legit.
There are a lot of folks who would welcome the idea of if Mexico can’t handle them, we will.
The embargo’s would destroy us.
It’s “patriotic” because they’re protecting America from the drug lords and criminals obviously and thank god trump is the first president with balls to do it /s sarcasm please don’t kill me
As they sip down their alcoholic caffeinated sugar beverage
“Special Military Operation” is the current popular term I believe /s
You didn’t need the sarcasm tag.
And the world community will do nothing in response because the United States is singularly excepted from all international rules for some reason. It’s time for the world to start organizing, for real, against US economic and military hegemony.
I believe it has something to do with oh I don’t know, the United States devoting more money to war than nearly every other country put together, or mayhaps the 750~ military bases the US have got scattered all about.
So overall, I think mexico does need a third party to fight the cartels. Anyone living in mexico probably has family there. Andcthe cartels have soo much influence that they can get at just about anyone. So a local force just can’t take the country back. Now the current government of mexico can’t willingly let a third party in, because then the cartels would go after them. So something like this where the third party is unhinged enough to do it on it’s own is actually a decent way for it to happen. So let trump start his war on the cartels. It might actually end up as a good thing. The next president can run on ending that war and cooperating with the Mexican government to give them true control of thier country again… because by then, hopefully the cartels are weakened enough to allow the government to win.
This feels like a broken clock is right twice a day kind of thing. He may accidentally bring about a good thing for all the wrong reasons.What happens to all the normal non cartel people caught up in the middle of your drug war?
New job openings in the cartel after the withdrawal?
So I follow your logic… but fuck me if that doesn’t just sound like post hoc justification for invading your next door neighbor in an ultra nationalistic way.
I was going more for possible unintended consequences that turned out good by accident.
The US created the cartels with their disastrous war on drugs. The solution isn’t invading, it’s ending the failed war!
I know Americans have trouble understanding this, but the solution to most problems isn’t escalating it with another war and bombing the shit out of something.
I wasn’t advocating for invading, just saying it could accidentally work out. Mostly a bad cop good cop thing. Trump being the bad cop, and the next pres runs on being the good cop who repairs the relationship and actually solves the problem. Which certainly would need to include changes in drug policy in the US.
Mexico? Do you mean South Texas?
Texas? You mean North Mexico?
No, if that were the case it would be called Coahuila y Tejas like it was before Antonio López de Santa Anna (spit on the ground) lost it.
With the respect, the Trump team failed to invade the US Capitol when they controlled it’s defense apparatus, they are more likely to kill themselves than succeed in any ground invasion.
They forgot to bring guns. Total noob mistake
So a “special operation” in Mexico.
This is hilarious, I just wrote a comment the other day stating:
“… If Mexico goes socialist for any reason, will see Canadian soldiers in the front line annexing Mexico with the US.”
And the response I got was “Pure insanity”
Might be the insanity is the part about Canadians joining in?
Yes but canada for the last two decade has been part of whatever USA is doing.
“Canada has taken part in six wars since 1945, all of which have been conducted under US leadership.“
This the first statement in an paper titled: “ Why Canada Goes to War: Explaining Combat Participation in US-led Coalitions”
“Breaking news: Invasion of Mexico halted by huge wall Trump built last term and then completely forgot about.”
If this happened in a video game, this is how you’d end up in a bizzaro situation where you’d have Russian bases in Mexico. Trump has bad advisors.
The worst advisors. Truly the worst advisors anyone has ever had, the worst in history! They say my advisors are pretty good, but they lie. My advisors SUCK.
Sorry. I’m tired and doing an off kilter Trump impression just seemed like the thing to do in the moment.
Mexican American War 2: Electric Boogaloo
What’s more amusing is how they’ve all cried about how illegals are invading the country. If we invade and annex Mexico, are they still illegals?
Oh it won’t be annexed, it’ll be blown up and left.
They’ll invent a term “resident non-citizen” and they’ll divvy up the country as franchises to the highest bidder.
Haven’t we already demonstrated that we can’t successfully hold a mountainous desert against the will of its population in the modern era?
