Summary

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.

The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.

While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.

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      27 days ago

      2016-2020 was filled to the brim with daily headlines of all the stupid, backward, hateful, fascist shit trump & co were up to. The next n years will be no better.

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      He’s not even in office yet and threatening war with Mexico. This is going to be a long 4 years

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        You’re ignoring that he promised his followers that they wouldn’t have to vote, anymore…

        Don’t expect to ever be allowed to vote him out.

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        As long as it ends in 4 years. Otherwise it’s going to be much longer and much bloodier

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          The Nazis annexed 3 neighbors without even firing a shot.
          The US doesn’t even have 3 neighbors.

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              Land connected countries I think it’s only two (direct neighbors): Mexico and Canada. Is there another country I’m missing? If we can continue down south we get into Guatemala and Belize. If we allow water traversal, then the Caribbean is full of places.

              I don’t see many of these locations not fighting back one way or another, either directly or through international responses. Germany at least had some casus belli for annexing territory through ethnic/cultural grounds and/or historical border European nation border changes. The US has no such thing to work with, we’d just be obviously complete assheads to annex anything at this point.

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                  If we’re conting islands then we also have the bahamas, dominican republic, british virgin islands, anguilla, and st kitts & nevis

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                    Guantanamo is leased from Cuba, it’s not US territory. If you count that, you’d have to count every other US military installation.