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Ron DeSantis says he’s open to drone strikes on Mexican drug cartels
NBC News ^ | 8.10.2023 | Alex Tabet

Posted on 08/15/2023 4:57:54 PM PDT by libh8er

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he would be open to using drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels if he’s elected president.

“We will absolutely reserve the right if they’re invading our country and killing our people,” DeSantis said when a voter asked whether he would be willing to use drones against the cartels.

Asked later by NBC News to clarify, DeSantis said: “I said I would use whatever force we need to defend the country.

“We’d be willing to lean in against them, and we reserve the right to defend our country,” he added.

DeSantis has been leaning hard into immigration as a theme in his presidential campaign, pushing to the right to distinguish himself from former President Donald Trump.

In June, DeSantis endorsed the use of “deadly force” against migrants suspected of trafficking drugs. He reiterated the policy again Thursday as he spoke to a crowd of more than 150 voters in a packed restaurant here.

“We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said to a rousing round of applause.

In a recent interview, DeSantis discussed how he would distinguish between migrants who are smuggling drugs and those who aren’t.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartels2dayus2morrow; desantis; drone; foreverwar; mexico; rds
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To: DoughtyOne

We don’t have the luxury to worry about mexico.

10 years ago, I would have said Islam was the issue.
Now the democrats are setting up a totalitarian state that Stalin would aspire to.

We need to solve that before we worry about Mexico’s problems.


21 posted on 08/15/2023 5:22:29 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Ron DeSantis. The latest GOPe champion in a long list of winners. Jeb! Mitt Romney, and John McStain)
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To: Phoenix8

He destroyed himself well before this.

Bombing cartels isn’t conservatism, its warmongering.


22 posted on 08/15/2023 5:24:40 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Ron DeSantis. The latest GOPe champion in a long list of winners. Jeb! Mitt Romney, and John McStain)
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To: Widget Jr

> Mexico is a sovereign nation, drone strikes are an act of war. <

Yep. Options:

1. Declare war on Mexico.
2. Get Mexico’s permission to use drones.
3. Forget about drones and seal the border.

But don’t just go around bombing other countries.


23 posted on 08/15/2023 5:25:05 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The Mexican cartels form a state within another nation in Mexico. The “federales” cannot hope to contain the very well-armed cartels, which are both better equipped and better trained than the Mexican armed forces, and the cartels also control, without challenge, large portions of the US-Mexican border, and effective control extends well within the US territory.

It is astonishing how much the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime is dedicated to “protecting” the Ukrainian borders, yet will do NOTHING to extend the same benefit to our own national boundaries.

The George Soros international band of oligarchs and pirates own Joe Stolen, and are perfectly willing to share that ownership with the Chinese Communist Party.

And Donald Trump is the one being indicted on every front?


24 posted on 08/15/2023 5:31:50 PM PDT by alloysteel (Take back the rainbow. Its use by LGBTQ is cultural misappropriation.)
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To: Phoenix8

From what I gather, here on Free Republic, DeSantis is allegedly a RINO, he’s allegedly a liberal Republican, he’s allegedly tied in with Karl Rove and Paul Ryan, and for these reasons, we are supposed to hate him.


25 posted on 08/15/2023 5:33:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: libh8er

Heck I’d be all for cruise missile attacks on them myself.


26 posted on 08/15/2023 5:34:58 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Cartels wouldn’t strike back with drones. They know better than that. Think of the recent assassination mistake where they tied up and handed over the cartel members that did it. They know if they go act of war on the US we will turn them into a museum exhibit.

Their move wouldn’t be so direct and visible. It would more something like quietly going after politician families. Our congress will immediately fold and the cartels will resume their business.


27 posted on 08/15/2023 5:36:16 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I hit post too soon.

We are also told that we are not to look at the record of DeSantis in Florida, because he allegedly has such a friendly legislature, that any Republican could achieve what he achieved.

Instead, overriding everything else about DeSantis ,is that we are supposed to hate him because of his ties to Karl Rove and Paul Ryan types.


28 posted on 08/15/2023 5:36:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: DoughtyOne

Sorry. That was supposed to be president.

Mexico’s president has some advice for U.S. on moral decay -
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-04-20/mexico-president-lopez-obrador-advice-us-moral-decay

Mexican president: My nation has more democracy than U.S.
POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/28/mexico...

Mexico’s president says Mexico is safer than the US | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/americas/mexico-us-amlo-intl-latam/index.html

Mexican president calls U.S. State Department ‘liars’ after rights ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-calls-us-state-department-liars-after-rights-report-2023-03-21/

There is more. 😀
He is not a shy guy.


29 posted on 08/15/2023 5:37:10 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: libh8er

“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he would be open to using drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels if he’s elected president.”

In other words, DeSantis says he will copy Trump’s stated policies.


30 posted on 08/15/2023 5:38:34 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Leaning Right

Bombing other countries is our specialty.


31 posted on 08/15/2023 5:39:11 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: Phoenix8
I don’t understand why they feel they must destroy Desantis in the process.

They don't... Ron's doing a damn good job of that himself.

32 posted on 08/15/2023 5:39:15 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: MarMema
Bombing other countries is our specialty.

Especially Brown People.

33 posted on 08/15/2023 5:39:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes.


34 posted on 08/15/2023 5:41:24 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: MarMema

> Bombing other countries is our specialty. <

Yep. And since 1945 we follow these three simple (and very expensive) steps.

Step 1: Bomb a little.
Step 2: Bomb a lot.
Step 3: Give up and call the whole thing off.


35 posted on 08/15/2023 5:43:17 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: libh8er

He might want to reconsider that. After all, his job as a JAG officer/advisor in Iraq, was to make sure our troops behaved like gentlemen, and didn’t offend our enemies. When they put lawyers on the battlefield, this country’s ability to win a war, went down the tubes.


36 posted on 08/15/2023 5:44:01 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: libh8er

So what.

He’s irrelevant.

He and Jeb can fly their drones together.


37 posted on 08/15/2023 5:44:37 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: libh8er

Deadly force is about the only option for someone trying to kill you.


38 posted on 08/15/2023 5:44:41 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: DoughtyOne

They don’t have to send them across the border at this point in time.

I’m sure there are plenty of targets right here at home.


39 posted on 08/15/2023 5:45:41 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: libh8er
“open to using drone strikes”

But not definet...

40 posted on 08/15/2023 5:48:51 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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