Posted on 07/29/2024 12:17:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan
Trump’s extremist policy agenda is flying under the radar — and that’s a problem.
Donald Trump went on national TV last week and proposed bombing Mexico.
Asked by Fox News’s Jesse Watters if he’d consider strikes against drug cartels operating in the country, Trump said yes — and framed his answer as a threat against the Mexican government. “Mexico’s gonna have to straighten it out really fast, or the answer is absolutely,” the former president said.
This is not a one-off answer to a stray question. Trump suggested firing missiles at Mexico during his presidency, asked advisers for a “battle plan” against the cartels last year, and recently proposed sending special operators to assassinate drug kingpins. The idea of war in Mexico is popular among the Republican elite; a Trump-aligned think tank even drew up a broad-strokes plan for how such a war might work.
There is every reason to take Trump’s proposal seriously. Presidents tend to at least try to deliver on campaign promises, and they have nearly unlimited war-making power nowadays. As unthinkable as it may sound, there is a reasonable chance the United States will be at war on its southern border in the coming years if Donald Trump returns to office.
So how come nobody is talking about it?
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Because it would be extremely popular.
Even people in Mexico would love it.
Everybody is tired of the cartels except: Democrats, Cartels, and China.
Put some A-10s to good use.
Now ‘cat ladies’........THAT’S a big story.
We should destroy the cartels.
Democrats are owned by the cartels.
OH, NOoOoOoOoOoOo!!!!!
Trump is a WaRmOnGeR!!!!!!!!
Seems like a good plan to me ...
Doesn’t the DEA already conduct operations like that in Central and South America? Vox...just a bunch of concern trolls who would be praising Giggles for saying the same thing.
Close and seal the border with the 3rd and 4th Infantry Divisions then let the Navy and Air Force do what they do best. The pendejos have it coming.
The leftists take Trump literally but not seriously. Trump supporters take Trump seriously but not literally.
Reagan ended the Cold War with the basic concept of: “We win; they lose.”
He wouldn’t be attacking Mexico City. He’d be focused on the source of the real control of Mexico. Drug cartels, their drugs and money and where they are. It’s not a new or unpopular idea. There were two big movies about it - “Sicario” and its sequel as well as “Clear and Present Danger.”
“ Now ‘cat ladies’........THAT’S a big story.”
Send a ARMED CAT LADY force into Mexico !
Win win!
I skimmed this article; author told some real whoppers.
If you have time to waste go ahead and read it.
I found this article testing to see if Google would auto fill President Donald Trump.
It didn’t.
I had to hit return to get results. This was one of the featured results from Google.
Bombing cartels and “bombing Mexico” are two different things.
Very much so.
Mexican people would support it.
They have to live under these cartels.
It’s a short flight for them.
‘Bout 15 minutes from Davis Monthan to the border.
Brrrrrrt.
Cartel be gone
Does Mexico meet the definition of a failed state?
I’m having trouble imagining what good it would do to keep pretending it is not, if it really is.
If Mexico cannot or will not act to end the cartels then it falls to us to stop the misery and carnage they bring us across an unsecured border.
What would that look like?
Don’t really know.
Will Mexico’s official government that is either helpless against the cartels or in their payroll pocket take the action needed?
It seems unlikely.
Again it comes back to us fixing it.
Seems to me the CIA (or others) have lots of "special operators" available.
Epstein, Seth Rich, Vince Foster...
Reminds me of the 90s movie ‘Rude awakening’. Some 60s hippies in a SA commune find secret plans to start a war. Hippies wanting to relive their anti war glory days try to expose the plan to media while inept CIA trys to stop them. Hippies succeed but public is in full support and demand war.
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