• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

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      6 hours ago

      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.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      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.