Posted on 02/14/2025 5:14:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
Mr. Trump was, to say the least, persuasive.
As a tool, tariffs may not be to everyone's taste, but they are a very effective policy instrument in President Trump's hands.
Trump knows how to use them.
Which is why we see this in Mexico, according to Border Report:
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Mexican Senate commission has approved the entry of members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) into the country starting this week.
The Americans will come fully armed as part of a mission to train the Mexican Navy’s Infantería de Marina (marine infantry) on conventional and non-conventional types of combat.
The training takes place from Feb. 17 through March 30 at the Luis Carpizo naval facility in the state of Campeche, according to Sen. Alejandro Moreno Cardenas, president of the Mexican Senate’s Naval Ministry Commission.
That's a dramatic change from previous hesitant attitudes towards hosting U.S. troops on Mexican soil. The Mexican War that ended in 1848, and the Pershing expeditions of the early 20th century pretty well have made it a no-go idea in most Mexican power circles until recently.
But that was before President Trump, who seems to have persuaded Mexico's leftist president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to go along with the idea and take it to her country's legislature, which gave the A-O.K. by a unanimous vote. That was an impressive persuasion.
Border Report says it was because of the threat of tariffs:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Holy money this president thinks outside the box, and is doing what “should have been done” many many years ago! He is “tearing down Berlin walls” (metaphorically speaking) left and right! The left however will never ever give him credit for being such a brilliant and decisive president of action
Seems like every few days or so, even every day lately, that I wake up and find out our president has just done somehting else awesome!
For 4 miserable years under the American hating tyrant before him, I would dread facing the day to find out that biden just spit in the face of Americans one more time- time after time he did so- the people of Hawaii and NC, and palestine Ohio, and other areas hit by disasters never got hardly any support from the administration, yet the Bidens most likely were raking in millions for themselves though while Americans suffered.
So glad we have a real president now! One that loves and cares about this nation and the rights of everyone, and who won’t bow down to the feelings of sick individuals who are pervert8ng this nation and corrupting the kids!
Just for general information, there have been P-8s and Rivet Joint aircraft flying along the border for several days. That’s new, and they’re not doing that for nothing.
I have been noticing that on my ADS-B Unfiltered (Military) Plane Tracker App.
Download it.
They will seek revenge via soft targets. No troops present.
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Let them.
We have the right president in office to exact payback and I feel that that payback would be devestating.
I hope we end up dropping a huge beatdown on Mexico. That 3rd world S hole has needed to be reigned in for far too long.
And the nation needs to very badly hurt everyone involved in putting that abomination into power.
Everyone involved in rigging the 2020 election needs to go to prison.
I don’t trust Mexican troops. Whatever we teach them, they’re liable to teach the cartels. All it takes is money.
And if the boys wanna fight you’d better let ‘em.
Mexico’s last civil war (1910-1922) never ended, it was just that everyone ran out of bullets. The same cultural fault lines that fueled then exist today, unresolved. It would not take very much start it all over again, nor would it end so indecisively this time.
“”””Isn’t this how we became embroiled in Vietnam?”””””
No.
“”””If my recollection is correct, this is how the Vietnam war started.””””
It wasn’t and the Mexico situation in no way resembles the
Cold War South East Asia situation.
That's your take away from this? Seriously?
How much cartel money did you get for posting that?
NOT kidding.
Isn’t this similar to how the Zetas formed, from trained mexican military ranks?
The last time the US used GBs to train the Mexican military, the trainees used their knowledge to become the Los Zetas cartel.
The way it is happening now stinks of Viet Nam.
Thirty years of warfare, 30 years of bearing the total cost of the war.
When it is done and lost, we haven't defeated anyone, we have spent a fortune, and we don't own one square inch of Mexico nor one drop of its oil.
This is really stupid unless Trump is about to enlighten us on the big picture.
The Mexican soldiers are corrupt. The Mexican federal police are corrupt. The Mexican state police are corrupt. The Mexican people are corrupt.
Our boys should not be going in pretending to trust these rotten people.
Declare war ON Mexico.
No to declaring war. Just build the wall. Let the Mexicans sort this out themselves like we should have done with the Vietnam mess.
“I have been noticing that on my ADS-B Unfiltered (Military) Plane Tracker App.
Download it.”
I took a look at it. I use Flightradar24. Not really seeing any advantage with that one.
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