The GOP/Conservatives are Scared and Maybe up for a war in Mexico.

Say whatever you want about Trumps intelligence but it is clear that the guy has a knack for understanding exactly what the right wants to hear.

His 2024 campaign hasn’t really been a policy fest so for him to already come out with the nugget that he’s wanting to run on invading Mexico to go to war with the Cartels tells you all you need to know about what the right wants to do. Whether it be fantasy or reality. The whole charade that the MAGA base is anti interventionist is nonsense. These are the same people who led the charge to invade Iraq. Do not buy for one second that these people are not dangerous enough to not be a threat to our neighbors.

 

Mexico is pouring synthetic fentanyl into the USA, and it is through the cartels (which control large parts of Mexico) and poor Mexicans are mules bringing it into the USA.

All of these things are factually true.

 

AMLO is also trying to overhaul the Instituto Nacional Electoral before the next election, in an attempt to ensure that Morena wins, and "more than three out of every four projects now awarded in no-bid contracts."

There's no way to be a politician in a place like Mexico without being a little dirty yourself and there is a reason for AMLO's popularity among every day people. But at least be honest that some of his moves are anti-democratic.

 

The Rs sure love to punch down.

 

i heard multiple trumpers say during his presidency that trump was going to invade northern mexico and "take it over".

 

Trump is a world class salesman. He is on the phone talking to his base all the time. He hears from his base that they would not mind bombing Mexico under some pretext, so ...

 

@Os Trigonum
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Annex Mexico !

DD

 

All this is doing is bringing Mexico closer to China.

The US represents a major demand for illegal drugs

 

Well, maybe.

I know that the AG is going to go after Sinaloa Cartel and some Chinese pharmaceutical companies.....

However the truth is that the CNG cartel is VERY close to not needing anything from the Chinese, they have recruited their own pharmacists from around the world that are very close to being able to being able to produce from the ground to the pill, Fentantyl.

So the Chinese element isn't really going to be important long term.

Still, things are heating up with China - they have decided to sentence an American to death recently which upset the State Department, and the CCP is encouraging it's businesses to operate like Pirates did in the Elizabethan Period.

 

China is investing heavily into Latin America and expanding their influence in the region.

This is about geopolitics and China getting a foothold with our neighbors. All this GOP rhetoric is giving Mexico reasons to undermine the US.

 

Mexico is trying to navigate relationships with both the USA and China and that is not going to be easy to do.

There is a real trade imbalance between China and Mexico at this point.

The USA needs to be very careful how it handles Mexico.

The US has discussed being more dependent on Mexico and less on China post COVID....

 

And the GOP’s escalating rhetoric… saying we need to invade… and this and that… ain’t helping that imbalance.

We should want Mexico within our sphere of influence. The US has been geopolitiking with China’s neighbors and China is trying to do the same.

 

The culture of public corruption in Latin America runs deep...and I'm not sure how you could ever fix it.

 

Well, certainly no corruption here…

 

Yes, and basically everywhere (ie Europe and the US and Africa and I assume Asia), but from personal experience it's a whole other level down south...it's the main thing that has held them back economically (that, and exploitation) despite all of their resources and potential.

 

GOP dishes this out like candy.

 

If we didn’t have so many drug addicts here it would help Mexico’s corruption problem enormously.