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Caribbean-Latin America
Finally a Foreign War Close to Home
2020-01-27
[Strat Culture Foundation] Since the end of the Cold War it seems almost like US/NATO forces have been looking for even the slightest casus belli to start a destabilizing conflict in a foreign nation. But these military actions have been exclusively focused on targets that are very far away from the homeland. Distant locations like the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria were all on the bad end of a "well intentioned" intervention with crippling results for the local population. However, now President Donald Trump is offering to intervene in Mexico to help them with their drug cartel problem, which is in many ways also America’s drug cartel problem. Naturally the answer from the Mexicans was negative, but Washington isn’t known to take "no" for an answer and if the US does take action in Mexico it will be a very different type of conflict due to its proximity.

A US military intervention in Mexico would mean three very important things for America’s near future.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  No blood for Sauza!


On a serious note, reports of cartels seizing agricultural areas, especially avocados.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-01-27 22:44  

#9  Very disappointed you neokkkons haven't mentioned seizing oil assets.

Seize the agave! Tequila !
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-27 19:44  

#8  Why not just defund them? Legalize drugs and tax remittances. Build the wall and let things sort themselves out.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-01-27 18:49  

#7  Let them have all the natural, mineral, agricultural wealth. Anything to stop the migrants. They're killing this country's schools, ruining our health care system, destroying public safety and public budgets, undermining rule of law.

Just do what we were told, back in the days of Perot and Gore debates, NAFTA would achieve but in fact caused the opposite: stop the f---ing invasion.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-27 16:16  

#6  We should invade Mexico and after they are defeated, force them to take Southern California off our hands.

Sun Tzu - something something don't make your opponent fight desperate.

Very disappointed you neokkkons haven't mentioned seizing oil assets.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-01-27 15:46  

#5  Negotiating strategy: "Fund and build the wall, ASAP, or we're going in. Your choice...
... Democrats"
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-27 12:49  

#4  Wait a minute, folks. This doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Chances are it'd be a costly guerrilla war with a lot more casualties that anybody would like and it'd drag on for years. Better to build the wall. We wouldn't need to declare war to just shoot anybody who tried to come over, under, around or through it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-01-27 12:20  

#3  Tell them to clean it up or we are sending in the Cav.
Posted by: 49 pan   2020-01-27 11:43  

#2  If we were to smash the cartels and establish an American protectorate over all regions north of the D.F. it would be a boon for Mexico and for us. Migrants would stay in the Protectorate zone. Employment would increase there. Both nations' GDP growth would be increased.

Nationalistic Mexicanos and the shitty Mexican elite could continue to stew in their corruption and still have their villas and could still hang out at their favorite Pacific and Caribbean resorts; we'd be taking over politically the dry and barren lands that we've already transformed economically.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-27 07:43  

#1  We should invade Mexico and after they are defeated, force them to take Southern California off our hands.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-01-27 02:34  

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