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When a government gets consumed by drug cartels, the UN security council should vote to conduct "peacekeeping" (blitz war) on all the drug dealers, burn all the

When a government gets consumed by drug cartels, the UN security council should vote to conduct "peacekeeping" (blitz war) on all the drug dealers, burn all their plantations with napalm. Drug dealers can't harass the family of a peacekeeping soldier from the other side of the world. So all those intimidation tactics involving people's families get invalidated and everything that's left are the drug dealers alone against thousands of well equiped professional soldiers. Unfortunately, the UN starts with the premise that governments should deal with their own stuff, something that in practice doesn't work.

tastyfreeze 6y ago
That sounds like an authoritarian nightmare. Its bad enough with US stormtroopers imposing US will around the world. We do not need a supranational entity raiding sovereigns for what they perceive as a problem.
- Nasrudith 6y ago
  Plus economically it is certifiably insane - destroying competitors and reducing the supply for a relatively fixed demand is subsidizing the same problem they are fighting against. If stability was the number one priority the proper thing would be to have the government provide the supply for too cheap to compete with. Fill the power vacuum to prevent the reincarnation of organized crime. It turns out economic fungibility also includes criminals.
- 29athrowaway 6y ago
  People in Mexico already get routinely kidnapped, murdered, tortured, extorted, trafficked, etc. If anything, this would be an improvement. It is bad, yes. But far better than the status quo. CJNG for example lost all respect and now they have an army, with uniforms, vehicles, military grade weapons and all. They do not hide who they are anymore. It is a joke. Under normal conditions, you can deal with an infection with an antibiotic. But when left untreated long enough, you have to amputate. That is what is needed here. A complete amputation of those clowns from reality. That is what the US would do if an organization dared to pull off 1% of what these clowns do every day. Blitz war on cartels with army, navy and air force, missiles, bombs, napalm, tanks, helicopters, armored personal carriers... leave no trace of them. The prohibition era analogy argument stops working when you realize cartels traffic people too.

tastyfreeze 6y ago

That sounds like an authoritarian nightmare. Its bad enough with US stormtroopers imposing US will around the world. We do not need a supranational entity raiding sovereigns for what they perceive as a problem.

Nasrudith 6y ago
Plus economically it is certifiably insane - destroying competitors and reducing the supply for a relatively fixed demand is subsidizing the same problem they are fighting against. If stability was the number one priority the proper thing would be to have the government provide the supply for too cheap to compete with. Fill the power vacuum to prevent the reincarnation of organized crime. It turns out economic fungibility also includes criminals.
29athrowaway 6y ago
People in Mexico already get routinely kidnapped, murdered, tortured, extorted, trafficked, etc. If anything, this would be an improvement. It is bad, yes. But far better than the status quo. CJNG for example lost all respect and now they have an army, with uniforms, vehicles, military grade weapons and all. They do not hide who they are anymore. It is a joke. Under normal conditions, you can deal with an infection with an antibiotic. But when left untreated long enough, you have to amputate. That is what is needed here. A complete amputation of those clowns from reality. That is what the US would do if an organization dared to pull off 1% of what these clowns do every day. Blitz war on cartels with army, navy and air force, missiles, bombs, napalm, tanks, helicopters, armored personal carriers... leave no trace of them. The prohibition era analogy argument stops working when you realize cartels traffic people too.