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Using the U.S. military to target cartel drug smugglers
X ^ | 12/08/2025 | OSZ

Posted on 12/08/2025 8:38:20 PM PST by SmokingJoe

Using the U.S. military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America

🟢 Support: 58% 🔴 Oppose: 42%

Harvard/Harris poll | 12/2-12/4

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attacks; cartels; drugs; polls; smuggling
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Still winning.
1 posted on 12/08/2025 8:38:20 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Given what’s known about drug cartels, their behavior, the nations they control just to our south, and how many Americans have been killed by their products, why would anyone be against using the military to fight them? Especially as opposed to the DEA and CIA after all this time?


2 posted on 12/08/2025 8:57:52 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SmokingJoe

A consistent ratio for the true pandemic [willful] victims vs. the immune.


3 posted on 12/08/2025 9:03:30 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: SmokingJoe

I’ve never been a video game guy.

Does anyone know if there are new games out of smashing the drug cartel boats?


4 posted on 12/08/2025 9:29:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: mikey_hates_everything; SmokingJoe

And, the Dems were all in on using the US military to combat the drug cartels...when they were in power.


5 posted on 12/08/2025 9:29:59 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: SmokingJoe

The war on drugs damaging America, needs soldiers. Especially since its a tactic adopted by other countries to damage us through drugs their cartels produce. It will be great practice and skill enhancement.


6 posted on 12/08/2025 9:30:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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If there are any survivors from the boat strikes, it just means we need to use bigger bombs! There, problem fixed.


7 posted on 12/08/2025 9:34:46 PM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Well, 1st you have to look at how many people are substance abusers. Estimates are ~16-17% of the population.

Still, I’d have hoped this would be more like 70/30...

:-(


8 posted on 12/08/2025 9:40:36 PM PST by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: Secret Agent Man
“The war on drugs damaging America, needs soldiers. “

Nope.
This war on drugs uses advanced US bombers that the drag traffickers have no idea where the super bombers are or are coming from.
All they usually see is a quick death when they are blown to pieces.

9 posted on 12/08/2025 9:41:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: volare737

Yup.
Or more deadly bombs.


10 posted on 12/08/2025 9:43:23 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Pershing was not wrong....


11 posted on 12/08/2025 9:49:11 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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This’ll make CandyRandpaul cry again, won’t it


12 posted on 12/08/2025 9:54:45 PM PST by digger48
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To: SmokingJoe

Now do leftwing district judges...


13 posted on 12/08/2025 9:59:55 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I’m all for killing these drug runners, and targeting cartel leaders, manufacturing, logistics, etc. But Venezuela isn’t a significant player in fentanyl, the drug that is killing so many thousands of Americans. Most fentanyl is produced in Mexico from Chinese precursors. Venezuela is about the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and the boat crews are collateral damage.


14 posted on 12/08/2025 10:05:35 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: SmokingJoe

Does any one know what weapons are being used,
and what platform they are being launched from
to accomplish this amazing task?


15 posted on 12/08/2025 10:30:01 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Ok, pilots... (armed forces)


16 posted on 12/08/2025 10:43:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Is there, has there been, a declared war on drugs?


17 posted on 12/09/2025 12:55:06 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I am starting to think that the (D)naysayers are really worried over their supply drying up.


18 posted on 12/09/2025 12:55:26 AM PST by Retgearjammer
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To: Retgearjammer

That and cartel bribe money drying up. Or fear of the cartels for not delivering what the cartels paid them for. Look at Sheinbaum in Mexico. Why else would they be so protective of criminals? It’s not for votes like the illegals when it comes to drug dealers and smugglers.


19 posted on 12/09/2025 1:22:08 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SmokingJoe

Who the hell is against getting rid of the cartel from the country??


20 posted on 12/09/2025 1:40:34 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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