Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed reports of a potential U.S. “soft invasion” to combat cartels as “entirely a movie,” emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty as a free, independent nation.
The Rolling Stone report claims Donald Trump’s incoming administration is considering covert military operations in Mexico, including airstrikes and assassinations of cartel leaders.
While Trump and key officials like Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio support such measures, experts warn they could backfire by boosting cartel recruitment, undermining Mexican sovereignty, and fostering cartel-Mexican authority collaboration.
Fuckin wild that we’re reading shit like this.
He’s not even in office yet and threatening war with Mexico. This is going to be a long 4 years
You’re ignoring that he promised his followers that they wouldn’t have to vote, anymore…
Don’t expect to ever be allowed to vote him out.
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*Soft war. Just the tip.
I still can’t believe America voted for this. Holy shit.
Yeah, we dumb. And hateful.
Not all. Just barely enough, but still. Holy shit.
I hope he tells all the troops its a soft war, has them walk leisurely across the boarder, to be met with a wall of mexican flac
It’s a military operation.
Didn’t the nazi’s start with their neighbors too?
The Nazis annexed 3 neighbors without even firing a shot.
The US doesn’t even have 3 neighbors.
Uhm…You actually do.
Who the fuck are you calling "you*?
Land connected countries I think it’s only two (direct neighbors): Mexico and Canada. Is there another country I’m missing? If we can continue down south we get into Guatemala and Belize. If we allow water traversal, then the Caribbean is full of places.
I don’t see many of these locations not fighting back one way or another, either directly or through international responses. Germany at least had some casus belli for annexing territory through ethnic/cultural grounds and/or historical border European nation border changes. The US has no such thing to work with, we’d just be obviously complete assheads to annex anything at this point.
Land connected is 2, but Cuba is also right there
We also have a bit of an established history invading Cuba.
Welp, Guantanamo technically has a land border too.
Guantanamo is leased from Cuba, it’s not US territory. If you count that, you’d have to count every other US military installation.
If we’re conting islands then we also have the bahamas, dominican republic, british virgin islands, anguilla, and st kitts & nevis
As long as it ends in 4 years. Otherwise it’s going to be much longer and much bloodier
Granting that he doesn’t Die
2016-2020 was filled to the brim with daily headlines of all the stupid, backward, hateful, fascist shit trump & co were up to. The next n years will be no better.
There’s a documentary about this situation on Paramount+ right now called Season 2 of Lioness
yeah im still trying to piece together the grammar in the title of this post.