Thank you Jack for your service. You are educating us Patriots. No surprise Jack that none of this happened under Biden. President Donald Trump has been a blessing.
I wonder how much sleep Claudia Sheinbaum gets these days. She's caught in a vice between the cartels and pressure from the Trump administration. I guess her best hope is to pretend that she is being steamrolled by Trump and not cooperating. She spouts silly rhetoric about resisting Trump, but doesn't actually put up a fight. Then again, if anything happens to her, the cartels will reveal the extent of their influence, which might invite US reprisal welcomed by Mexican politicians who live in fear of cartel violence.
I also wonder if the boogeymen we're so afraid of are paper tigers. Given how cruel and ruthless cartels are when they have the upper hand, like the rest of our enemies who wage asymmetrical warfare against us, maybe they're more scared of military conflict than we are.
I started thinking this way when I noticed that China, majorly dependent on Iranian oil, was so quiet after Trump ordered the strike on Iran. China is happy to fund Iran's proxy war against the west, but less enthusiastic to risk an open confrontation with us. They're happy to fund the drug and migrant smuggling network, but not so eager to find out if we would intervene in Taiwan.
Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world; but in a klepto-state, who can trust that the missiles are being maintained properly? Even their new high-tech battleship was a potemkin, easily sunk by the Ukrainians. China has the same problem with their military hardware, and an untested army with little loyalty to the current regime.
I guess I need to learn more about how Bukele rose to power overnight in El Salvador and how Milei did so in Argentina, despite all the corrupt influence stacked against them.
In Mexico there is a lot of sensitivity about US troop presence, given that we once went to war with them in 1846. Both countries are getting around that for the moment by having US "civilian" agencies (like the CIA) conducting surveillance flights to identify cartel locations and passing information along to the Mexican military, which has had some recent success raiding some of those. Thanks again for reading & sharing your thoughts!
This interview with a Mexican senator even surprised me! I just stumbled upon it. I'm at a loss to explain how this woman can say what she's saying without putting herself in mortal danger, but I'm glad she has the guts to do so...
That's such a weird dynamic for her, trying to pretend that she is cooperating with cartel priorities, while obviously rug-pulling them. Other LatAm nations might have less trepidation about direct US involvement, if libertarian reformers think the only way they can defeat the power of their gangs and labor union bosses is by inviting outside support. If they have natural resources, that's risky. But if they are potential markets for American business or contract manufacturing once social stability has normalized, maybe not such a bad bet. I also see a burgeoning business for many poor countries to host prisons for American and European illegal migrants who are not welcome in their countries of origin. A terrible state of affairs for human rights, but toothpaste does not easily go back in the tube. And the cartel crusade must be accompanied by mass imprisonment, because violent psychopaths are not likely to be vocational-retraining success stories. [I am a bit skeptical about the dramatic caterwauling by US Democrats that migrants deported to El Salvador are in mortal danger, surrounded by violent gang members. Because Bukele's prisons are open for tourism by foreign dignitaries and journos, and they appear as clean and orderly as Amazon warehouses. I suspect that if there was serious abuse happening in the prisons, anyone who could provide good evidence could sell it to the NYT for a life changing sum of money. That's hardly Guantanamo policy, is it? Remember when Nobel-prize-winner Obama campaigned on closing Gitmo, and also on protecting govt whistleblowers like Edward Snowden? Exactly. The only thing that they should be doing differently, instead of warehousing criminals, is letting them do gardening or crafts or some type of meditative labor that might eventually reform those who can be reformed. Hard labor in itself is not curative; hard labor that requires creative introspection can be.]
Thank you Jack for your service. You are educating us Patriots. No surprise Jack that none of this happened under Biden. President Donald Trump has been a blessing.
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I wonder how much sleep Claudia Sheinbaum gets these days. She's caught in a vice between the cartels and pressure from the Trump administration. I guess her best hope is to pretend that she is being steamrolled by Trump and not cooperating. She spouts silly rhetoric about resisting Trump, but doesn't actually put up a fight. Then again, if anything happens to her, the cartels will reveal the extent of their influence, which might invite US reprisal welcomed by Mexican politicians who live in fear of cartel violence.
I also wonder if the boogeymen we're so afraid of are paper tigers. Given how cruel and ruthless cartels are when they have the upper hand, like the rest of our enemies who wage asymmetrical warfare against us, maybe they're more scared of military conflict than we are.
I started thinking this way when I noticed that China, majorly dependent on Iranian oil, was so quiet after Trump ordered the strike on Iran. China is happy to fund Iran's proxy war against the west, but less enthusiastic to risk an open confrontation with us. They're happy to fund the drug and migrant smuggling network, but not so eager to find out if we would intervene in Taiwan.
Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world; but in a klepto-state, who can trust that the missiles are being maintained properly? Even their new high-tech battleship was a potemkin, easily sunk by the Ukrainians. China has the same problem with their military hardware, and an untested army with little loyalty to the current regime.
I guess I need to learn more about how Bukele rose to power overnight in El Salvador and how Milei did so in Argentina, despite all the corrupt influence stacked against them.
In Mexico there is a lot of sensitivity about US troop presence, given that we once went to war with them in 1846. Both countries are getting around that for the moment by having US "civilian" agencies (like the CIA) conducting surveillance flights to identify cartel locations and passing information along to the Mexican military, which has had some recent success raiding some of those. Thanks again for reading & sharing your thoughts!
This interview with a Mexican senator even surprised me! I just stumbled upon it. I'm at a loss to explain how this woman can say what she's saying without putting herself in mortal danger, but I'm glad she has the guts to do so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjxZ306MXw
That's such a weird dynamic for her, trying to pretend that she is cooperating with cartel priorities, while obviously rug-pulling them. Other LatAm nations might have less trepidation about direct US involvement, if libertarian reformers think the only way they can defeat the power of their gangs and labor union bosses is by inviting outside support. If they have natural resources, that's risky. But if they are potential markets for American business or contract manufacturing once social stability has normalized, maybe not such a bad bet. I also see a burgeoning business for many poor countries to host prisons for American and European illegal migrants who are not welcome in their countries of origin. A terrible state of affairs for human rights, but toothpaste does not easily go back in the tube. And the cartel crusade must be accompanied by mass imprisonment, because violent psychopaths are not likely to be vocational-retraining success stories. [I am a bit skeptical about the dramatic caterwauling by US Democrats that migrants deported to El Salvador are in mortal danger, surrounded by violent gang members. Because Bukele's prisons are open for tourism by foreign dignitaries and journos, and they appear as clean and orderly as Amazon warehouses. I suspect that if there was serious abuse happening in the prisons, anyone who could provide good evidence could sell it to the NYT for a life changing sum of money. That's hardly Guantanamo policy, is it? Remember when Nobel-prize-winner Obama campaigned on closing Gitmo, and also on protecting govt whistleblowers like Edward Snowden? Exactly. The only thing that they should be doing differently, instead of warehousing criminals, is letting them do gardening or crafts or some type of meditative labor that might eventually reform those who can be reformed. Hard labor in itself is not curative; hard labor that requires creative introspection can be.]
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