So overall, I think mexico does need a third party to fight the cartels. Anyone living in mexico probably has family there. Andcthe cartels have soo much influence that they can get at just about anyone. So a local force just can’t take the country back.
Now the current government of mexico can’t willingly let a third party in, because then the cartels would go after them. So something like this where the third party is unhinged enough to do it on it’s own is actually a decent way for it to happen. So let trump start his war on the cartels. It might actually end up as a good thing. The next president can run on ending that war and cooperating with the Mexican government to give them true control of thier country again… because by then, hopefully the cartels are weakened enough to allow the government to win.
This feels like a broken clock is right twice a day kind of thing. He may accidentally bring about a good thing for all the wrong reasons.
So I follow your logic… but fuck me if that doesn’t just sound like post hoc justification for invading your next door neighbor in an ultra nationalistic way.
The US created the cartels with their disastrous war on drugs. The solution isn’t invading, it’s ending the failed war!
I know Americans have trouble understanding this, but the solution to most problems isn’t escalating it with another war and bombing the shit out of something.
I wasn’t advocating for invading, just saying it could accidentally work out. Mostly a bad cop good cop thing. Trump being the bad cop, and the next pres runs on being the good cop who repairs the relationship and actually solves the problem. Which certainly would need to include changes in drug policy in the US.
So overall, I think mexico does need a third party to fight the cartels. Anyone living in mexico probably has family there. Andcthe cartels have soo much influence that they can get at just about anyone. So a local force just can’t take the country back. Now the current government of mexico can’t willingly let a third party in, because then the cartels would go after them. So something like this where the third party is unhinged enough to do it on it’s own is actually a decent way for it to happen. So let trump start his war on the cartels. It might actually end up as a good thing. The next president can run on ending that war and cooperating with the Mexican government to give them true control of thier country again… because by then, hopefully the cartels are weakened enough to allow the government to win.
This feels like a broken clock is right twice a day kind of thing. He may accidentally bring about a good thing for all the wrong reasons.
What happens to all the normal non cartel people caught up in the middle of your drug war?
New job openings in the cartel after the withdrawal?
So I follow your logic… but fuck me if that doesn’t just sound like post hoc justification for invading your next door neighbor in an ultra nationalistic way.
I was going more for possible unintended consequences that turned out good by accident.
The US created the cartels with their disastrous war on drugs. The solution isn’t invading, it’s ending the failed war!
I know Americans have trouble understanding this, but the solution to most problems isn’t escalating it with another war and bombing the shit out of something.
I wasn’t advocating for invading, just saying it could accidentally work out. Mostly a bad cop good cop thing. Trump being the bad cop, and the next pres runs on being the good cop who repairs the relationship and actually solves the problem. Which certainly would need to include changes in drug policy in the US.