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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: MarMema
Mexico’s president has some advice for U.S. on moral decay -

Wow, the irony of being preached at on morals by the president of a country that has been exporting such fine examples of upstanding citizens.

41 posted on 08/15/2023 5:50:03 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

Who cares what DeSantis thinks on the issue? He’ll never be the GOP nominee for President and, certainly, not in 2024.


42 posted on 08/15/2023 5:50:42 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: metmom

Yep, shall we talk about all those massacres perpetrated by the Mexican Government over the years against students and journalists? I don’t think they really want to go there.


43 posted on 08/15/2023 5:51:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: libh8er

Oh that settles it then, guess I’m voting for globalist DeSantis./s


44 posted on 08/15/2023 5:53:51 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“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”

Well people tend to hang around folks with the same ideals, so Yes, it’s a valid reason.


45 posted on 08/15/2023 5:57:55 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: wild74

No path to the GOP nomination for Meatball.


46 posted on 08/15/2023 6:01:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Kazan

And he’s already blew his chances for 2028.


47 posted on 08/15/2023 6:02:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: SPDSHDW
LOL whatever!!! Read more… Here is a pic of a very young George Patton with other US Army officers on the Mexican punitive expedition when we invaded Mexico to destroy the bandits…cartels basically. 1916 IMG-8820
48 posted on 08/15/2023 6:07:20 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: SPDSHDW

And it’s in no way no shape and no form warmongering to defend your nation.

80,100 mostly young Americans died from opioids mostly brought over by cartels in 2021.

SMH.


50 posted on 08/15/2023 6:10:32 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: libh8er

DeSantis and whoever we is, are going to have to mortgage their homes to buy the drones.


52 posted on 08/15/2023 6:12:17 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Phoenix8

I have zero issue attacking cartels, operating on our soil.

We can’t willy nilly do whatever we please in Mexico these days, which is what they are stating they wish to do.


53 posted on 08/15/2023 6:12:37 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

Hahahahaha.
Get your little fag ass out there and start doing something.

You won’t, you little keyboard bitch.
Don’t start shit you can’t finish and don’t accuse someone of not doing something.
Take your punk ass outta here and sit in time out. The adults were trying to have a civil discussion before you resorted to profanity.


54 posted on 08/15/2023 6:16:37 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: SPDSHDW

‘ Prior to the Villa-Carranza split in 1915, there is no credible evidence that Villa cooperated with or accepted any help from the German government or agents. Villa was supplied arms from the U.S., employed American mercenaries and doctors, was portrayed as a hero in the U.S. media, and did not object to the 1914 U.S. naval occupation of Veracruz (Villa’s observation was that the occupation merely hurt Huerta). The German consul in Torreón made entreaties to Villa, offering him arms and money to occupy the port and oil fields of Tampico to enable German ships to dock there, this offer was rejected by Villa.”

The cartels already come and go as they please, going after them in their home may the the only way to stop them. Their government is either unable or unwilling to stop them.


55 posted on 08/15/2023 6:18:06 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: libh8er

Drone strikes on US or Mexico soil? On Mexico is an act of war. On US soil, well, hmm, remind me again how those no-knocks have worked out.

Smells like all hat and no cattle.


57 posted on 08/15/2023 6:21:01 PM PDT by bgill
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To: TermLimits4All

Well, all of us have different criteria as far as how we judge people , and situations, and politicians.


58 posted on 08/15/2023 6:24:35 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SPDSHDW

While I’d like to agree with you, the cartels are now
operating on both sides of the border.

We’re going to have the same problems with Mexicans do down
there if we don’t do something.


59 posted on 08/15/2023 6:24:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: alloysteel

Agreed...


60 posted on 08/15/2023 6:25:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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