Posted on 02/17/2025 12:29:37 PM PST by hardspunned
This comes as President Trump continues his immense pressure on the Mexican government to take out the cartels.
The plan is for the Army's 7th Special Forces Group to train Mexican soldiers on conventional and non-conventional types of combat. I bet if Mexico fails, then the United States will take matters into its own hands.
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You can’t train them not to be corrupt.
And “ train Mexican soldiers on conventional and non-conventional types of combat “ will just create a hyper violent uber cartel.
That’s huge!
Cartel dbags are morons in uniforms.
Vs.
US
But I'd prefer we hit the cartel palaces they have built with GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator). That's the precision-guided, 30,000-pound "bunker buster" bomb. One per palace should take care of the problem. Hit them simultaneously around the country.
Then, for good measure, have A-10 Warthogs patrolling the border 24x7. Let loose some "Bbbbrrrapppssss" in the Sonoran Desert on the Mexican side and they'll get the message.
Yes, many ex-Mexican Army and Mexican special forces have gone to the cartels after leaving the service. It’s believed that the total number of people working for the cartels is 175,000. Lots of killing is needed.
A coupla “BBRRRRRRRRT”s with some A-10s and those cartel members be looking for some deep cover.
Someone from Ukraine would probably easily be paid off by the cartels to “miss”. They have corruption back channels on top of corruption back channels. I don’t want someone from Ukraine controlling any military equipment within 10,000 miles of my house.
They’d probably find a way for Zelensky to take out Trump, this time with a rocket, rather than a cooked up telephone call scheme with Vindman.
This has been done before. We sent our SpecForces to Mexico to train soldiers to be skillful MexSpecForces but the newly trained troops got a better offer and became the most effective enforcers for cartels and then split off to become the Zetas cartel which became two separate cartels. So they learned highly valuable combat skills from the Americans and the Cartels offered them much more money than the Mexican government was paying them then the Cartels trained them in the drug business and they set up their own cartels. It will happen again unless he American forces go after the cartels in partnership with the Mexies- at least.
But wait. The Cartels have long recruited their best fighters from the Mexican military forces. That is what they do now.
Maybe we should not be quite so fast at training people who will be fighting us later. The Mexican military will invariably be used by the Cartel factions to fight each other and perhaps to fight us as well. That is also what they are doing now.
Perhaps we should start with training them in deconfliction protocols so they will get out of our way when we have an operation against a Cartel faction. Hold the more lethal training for later.
As the Cartels weaken, we may be able to trust the Mexican army with other activities. We must first convince them that we are stronger and deadlier than the Cartels before expecting they will help us.
The Cartels have plenty of money to hire skilled drone operators and the latest in attack drones. They are doing that now too. When they use those capabilities to kill our people, they will cross that line where we will need to hunt them down and massacre them with every force at our disposal.
If we are very skilled at diplomacy, and very lucky, we might get the Mexican army to do the dirty work.
bttt
How ‘bout A-130 “Spooky?”
Well, that escalated quickly. Popcorn anyone?
No ground support other than to assure: Kinetic targets only.
IMHO
Our military better be prepared to take over the job once the cartels are engaged on the battlefield.
I'd start with air strikes on the drug crops. First dry up their products at the source. If the cartels try to replant, take them out in the fields. Their stock will dry up in six weeks.
Then target the labs where the drugs are processed. Destroy their capability to make the drugs. This will dry up their future cash flows.
Then move on to the camps where the cartel leaders live. Take out the barracks where cartel soldiers live. Take out their armories of weapons. Take out the homes of the cartel leaders. This will disorganize the cartels and break up their source of power.
-PJ
I don’t like that idea. What happens when the cartels wage war over here or corrupt our politicians worse than they are now.
This is really going to upset the MSM, who has been
heralding the animosity between Mexico and the U. S.
Dream on a—holes!
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