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the real war the US should be fighting
by Kalanos 2mo ago
the real war the US should be fighting
- hereme888 2mo agoWhy should the US fight Mexican cartels? They have their own armies and plenty of ammo.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2mo agoIf you think the outputs of Mexican cartels stay in Mexico, you're severely underinformed. Do you know how many civilian deaths (to say nothing of human trafficking and more) are directly due to Mexican cartels? The US absolutely has an interest in the destruction of Mexican cartels.
- hereme888 2mo agoI'm not uninformed about cartel drug manufacturing and resulting American deaths. That's why we had to seal the border, and we need to keep enforcing it. But to send troops into a country that denies their entry is another thing. I don't mind bombing the cartels from a distance. I'd rather the U.S. continues to pursue diplomatic options vs. war.
- krapp 2mo agoAlso the cartels are funded and propped up by the CIA. We need them to destabilize the Mexican government, launder blood money, traffic children for our rich pedophiles and push drugs into our poor neighborhoods.
- hereme888 2mo agoI'm not going down those rabbit holes. If a previous CIA was or was not responsible for that, that's that. Now, we're here.
- autoexec 2mo agoWhy should the US be fighting Mexican gangs? Mexico should send their own army to fight the criminal gangs. If we want to send our army after gangs we have plenty of them right here in the US. We could start with the ones in our Sheriff's Departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff's_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...
- themaninthedark 2mo agoAnd then we would get to hear about American imperialism forever....
- nitwit005 2mo agoMaybe after the US annexes Greenland, for some reason.
- atmavatar 2mo agoThere's no need to fight. The proper solution is to end the war on drugs, allowing people to do what they will with their own bodies. Once people can legally buy their drugs, the cartels will starve. Use the money saved from reducing our prison population by 75% to pay for widely-accessible treatment for addiction as well as mental health problems. Build more affordable housing so homelessness is less of an issue. As an added bonus: roll back the last half-century of disastrous trickle-down economics which gutted the middle class, so there's less incentive to start using in the first place. Reminder: the Nixon tapes reveal that the war on drugs was started in the first place not to protect the public from harmful drugs but rather as a means to criminalize his political enemies (e.g., hippies and black people) in a way that couldn't be challenged in court on 14th amendment grounds. The problem, of course, is those solutions are hard, it's a lot easier to get voters to root for building more walls and sending troops to kill more foreigners, and there's a lot of money to be made by the military industrial complex and private prison system by prolonging the problem.
- 0dayz 2mo agoThat is a pipedream coming from some one who supports drug legalization, you think a multi billion dollar enterprise with unique position of having weapons and even armies are gonna pack their bags after USA become a drug haven? No they will do what they do now: Expand into other illegal and legal venues and worst case attempt a coup.
- tonyedgecombe 2mo ago> Expand into other illegal and legal venues and worst case attempt a coup. Stuff that is less likely to spill over the border into the US.
- esseph 2mo ago> Once people can legally buy their drugs, the cartels will starve. No, they did risk reduction plays decades ago into legit industries. It might hit them for 20-30%. Also they control a lot of rare earth minerals...
- Kalanos 2mo ago